Muhammad Rizwan Ashiq
SENIOR FULL-STACK ENGINEER & TEAM LEAD · 9+ YEARS · PAKISTAN · REMOTE
Builds compliance-heavy, multi-tenant products end to end — and leads the teams that ship them.
Summary
Senior Full-Stack Engineer and Team Lead with 9+ years building production fintech and SaaS platforms for clients across the US, UK, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Specialized in compliance-heavy, multi-tenant systems — SPV/fund administration, banking integrations (Plaid, Treasury Prime, Stripe), and KYC/accredited-investor verification — built on NestJS/Node.js, .NET, React/Next.js, and AWS/GCP/Azure.
- –Senior engineer on Assure.co / Glassboard (back-office engine for AngelList & EquityZen) — 50K+ users, 92K+ investments, 8.6K+ SPVs closed
- –Delivered 30+ products across fintech, healthcare, streaming, and enterprise SaaS — dozens live in production with active users; 15+ mobile apps shipped to stores
- –Named Team Lead of the Year two years running; taught a university Web Programming course and mentored 50+ engineers
Experience
Development Team Lead
2022 — PresentMercury Solutions · Remote
Promoted from Senior Software Engineer to Development Team Lead. Lead a team of 10 engineers delivering fintech and SaaS products for international clients — own the lifecycle from discovery to production.
- –Named Team Lead of the Year two years running; raised on-time delivery to ~95%
- –Drove 60%+ repeat-and-referral business through structured discovery and Agile delivery
- –Set architecture and code-quality standards; own CI/CD, cloud infra, and deployments
Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Contract)
Sep 2023 – Nov 2024NOICE · Jakarta, Indonesia · open.noice.id
Production audio/video streaming platform — 15+ backend microservices live on iOS, Android, and web across Southeast Asia.
- –Built the Web Player and Creator Studio serving hundreds of thousands of monthly users
- –Lighthouse score from ~60 to 90+; cut initial load ~40%; subscription conversion +15%
- –Delivered across Podcast, Audio/Video, CMS, and Analytics domains (Agora RTC, PubNub)
Senior Software Engineer
Jun 2021 – Dec 2022Assure.co / Glassboard Tech · Salt Lake City, US · Remote
Back-office engine for AngelList and EquityZen — Utah fintech that pioneered flat-fee SPVs.
- –Built the founder fundraising flow end-to-end: deal creation, KYC, capital collection, and payouts
- –LoopBack 4 (TypeScript) core with REST + gRPC; Keycloak/Casbin RBAC; Camunda BPMN/DMN
- –Integrated Stripe, Plaid, Treasury Prime, Synapse, Onfido, and Parallel Markets
- –Platform lifetime: 50K+ users, 92K+ investments, 8.6K+ SPVs closed
Backend Engineer (Contract)
2021 – 2022Kairos Business Solutions · Australia · Remote
Fleet-management ERP — real-time driver tracking, delivery routing, geo-fencing, and automated reporting on AWS. Integrated Google Maps Platform for live position updates.
Full-Stack Developer
2018 – 2021Independent / Freelance
15+ MVPs and business tools for US, UK, Australian, and Canadian clients across e-commerce, logistics, and SaaS. Multi-carrier shipping platform with UPS/FedEx rate APIs, PayPal checkout, and shipment tracking.
Technical Skills
Selected Projects
Education & Recognition
BS, Information Technology
Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering & IT · 2016 – 2020
Final-Year Project: Advanced Autonomous Car — algorithm-driven self-driving vehicle. Microsoft Imagine Cup, Regional Second Runner-Up (2020)
Certifications
AWS Academy Cloud Foundations · Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals · JavaScript Intermediate (HackerRank) · SQL Intermediate (HackerRank)
Awards
Team Lead of the Year (2×) · Star of the Year · Microsoft Imagine Cup Regional Runner-Up
Updated June 2026 · Full portfolio at rizwanashiq.com