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Mushahid Khan

CTO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India11 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 11 years of experience in backend system design.
  • Expert in AI-powered systems and NLP techniques.
  • Proven leadership in tech team management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Fintech solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

PythonDjango RestframeworkMachine Learning

Other Skills

.NETASP.NETAmazon Web Services (AWS)BootstrapC languageCSSCeleryFAISSHTMLHuggingfaceJAVA (Basic)JavaScriptLangChainLaravelNatural Language Processing (NLP)

About

Software Engineer with 11 years of experience in designing and developing Backend systems with focus on extensibility, modularity and testability

Experience

11 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 7 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs
Current Experience

Care.fi

Technical Lead

Jun 2024Present · 2 yrs

  • Refactored and optimized Django REST backend with modular design patterns, improving maintainability and scalability.
  • Built and managed a cross-functional team of engineers, driving product R&D, delivery, and alignment with business goals.
  • Developed AI-powered systems for automated policy decoding and query resolution, reducing manual interpretation by 70%.
  • Built advanced RAG pipeline using FAISS and Hugging Face for policy decoding, enabling accurate policy clause retrieval at scale.
  • Integrated Gemini model and prompt engineering strategies to improve accuracy in claim validation and benefit determination.
  • Design and Developed a QC dispatch framework that auto-validates extracted data against claims, cutting review time by 60%.
  • Engineered a query classification and resolution engine that routes hospital and insurer queries to the appropriate resolution workflows using rule-based logic and ML classifiers.
PythonVector DatabasesFAISSDjango RestFrameworkAmazon Web Services (AWS)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)+11

Timeswap labs

Lead Backend Engineer

Sep 2022Aug 2023 · 11 mos · Tórtola, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain · Remote

  • Led backend development efforts for Timeswap, a decentralized lending protocol, with a primary focus on designing robust REST APIs, scalable backend architecture, and secure interactions with blockchain data.
  • Built and maintained a modular backend architecture using Django REST Framework, ensuring clean separation of services and API scalability.
  • Designed normalized and efficient PostgreSQL schemas to support dynamic lending pools, transaction logs, and user activity tracking.
  • Integrated Web3.py with Django backend services to enable seamless interaction with Ethereum smart contracts.
  • Developed secure wallet-based authentication and transaction workflows, ensuring user integrity across the platform.
  • Implemented Redis-based caching to reduce latency and enhance performance for read-heavy endpoints.

Socialfaim

Founder - CTO

Jun 2022May 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

  • Founded and led end-to-end development of an influencer marketing automation platform.
  • Designed scalable backend systems and real-time insights pipelines for campaign management.
  • Built high-performance architecture to process and analyze large-scale influencer and audience data.
  • Developed ML-based influencer recommendation and scoring models, ranking profiles by engagement,
  • relevance, and campaign success probability.
  • Implemented audience similarity and clustering algorithms to match brands with the right influencer
  • cohorts.
  • Leveraged NLP techniques to analyze influencer content and brand campaigns for semantic alignment.
  • Oversaw product strategy, technical leadership, and business growth.

Mswipe technologies pvt. ltd.

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2020Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Led the design and development of scalable backend services for Mswipe’s payment gateway platform
  • Integrated various third-party APIs for real-time transaction processing and reconciliation.
  • Mentored junior developers, performed code reviews, and drove best practices in backend development.
  • Built and maintained microservices architecture with RESTful APIs for merchant onboarding, settlement, and transaction modules.

Digimkey

Head of Engineering

Apr 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • As a head of engineering I led the development of scalable backend systems, managed the tech roadmap, and aligned product capabilities with business goals.
  • Designed and developed core backend architecture using Django REST Framework, ensuring modularity, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Built a comprehensive education management suite covering admissions, fees, exam workflows, and performance reporting.
  • Defined database schema and business logic to support dynamic rules, audit trails, and reporting pipelines.
  • Mentored and led a small development team while also owning DevOps and infrastructure.
  • Collaborated with founders on product vision, feature prioritization, and go-to-market strategy.
  • Tech Stack: Django REST Framework, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Git, Docker

Flyrobe

Senior Backend Developer

Aug 2015Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai

  • 1.Developed and designed API’s (RESTful Web Service) for the company website and other platform (Andriod/Ios).
  • 2. Extended and Refactored Backend to manage the order from multiple cities along with concurrency control.
  • 3. Developed and designed API’s (RESTful Web Service) for the company website and other platform
  • 4.Restructured Database Design (Data-modeling) to optimize queries and reduce the latency over API’s.
  • 5.Migrated data from old backend to the new backend structure to keep the data in structured way.
  • 6.Developed and Managed the order dashboard and relevant dashboard (these dashboards are used by flyrobe operations team) to serve the order smoothly in all cities.
  • 7.Using ElasticSearch as a data store for searching and updating various order and inventory.
  • 8.Developed Consignment Dashboard and many other to get insight of inventory flow.
  • 9.Developed API's for LogisticService APP and FittingMeasurement APP.

Aasaanjobs.com

Software Development Engineer

Mar 2015Aug 2015 · 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • As part of a medium ­sized development team, I have primarily been responsible for the
  • development of some new module in company product using Django framework, as well as
  • maintaining Django websites for our company.
  • Have been involved in the development and maintenance of the company products Recruit.

Doublespring media

SDE

May 2014Mar 2015 · 10 mos · Bangalore

  • I have primarily been responsible for the development of projects for our clients using Django framework,as well as maintaining a number of legacy Django websites.Have been invloved in the development and maintenance of the company products BlackMonk,Ivory,Opal.

Education

Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad

Engineer's Degree — Computer Science Enginereing

Jan 2009Jan 2013

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