Software Engineer Available
Ten years shipping production software across banking, government, humanitarian and retail sectors — from a distribution platform serving 40 million people to core banking integration, enterprise content management and AI-driven products. Now adding applied AI at postgraduate level.
Free 45-minute scoping call · fixed-scope proposal in 5 working days · remote worldwide · English & Arabic
01 — Profile
Most of my career has been spent in places where software outages have real weight: a distribution system that decides whether a family collects food this month, a banking channel that has to satisfy a regulator before it satisfies a product manager.
That shaped how I build. Integration before rewrite. Auditability by default. Offline paths for networks that fail. Arabic and English as first-class, not a translation layer bolted on at the end.
Today I lead the development team on a retail banking platform, run Aknta LLC — a US-registered software company building enterprise systems, applications and AI-driven products — and I'm reading for an MSc in Artificial Intelligence to make applied AI a defensible part of that stack rather than a slide.
02 — Delivered
Technical lead on the country-wide distribution platform: beneficiary registration, agent distribution, reconciliation and reporting across every region. Roughly 40 million people in scope, with ministerial-level stakeholders.
2019–2024Leading the development team on a retail banking app built against a Finastra Equation core. Owning delivery, release scope and technical direction across a middleware-only integration pattern, an OWASP MASVS L2 security baseline, and central bank compliance from sprint zero.
2025–On-premises enterprise asset platform — Spring Boot and React/TypeScript monorepo, role-based access, movement ledger, barcode workflows. Delivered with a full DevSecOps pipeline: Ansible provisioning, Harbor registry with Trivy scanning, containerised release.
2025–2026Led the build of a national measurement, reporting and verification system for climate and environmental indicators, combining satellite imagery with ground observation. Also delivered the GCCE field data-capture application used by inspectors to collect and geo-reference readings in the field, synchronised against the satellite layer.
2021–2024Recovery of decades-old Arabic records from proprietary DBF encodings and IBM i extracts into PostgreSQL — custom decoders, verified character mapping, and reconciliation against source ledgers.
Ongoing03 — Products
Built and maintained under Aknta LLC. Available as licensed products, or as the starting point for a customised deployment.
Offline-first point of sale for small retailers. Sales, inventory and receipts that keep working when the connection doesn't, then reconcile when it returns.
Field data capture for teams working away from the office — structured forms, photo and location evidence, offline queueing, and supervisor review before anything reaches the central record.
Structured candidate and employee assessment — configurable test banks, scoring rules, weighted competency models, and comparison reporting for hiring and promotion committees.
Enterprise content management for regulated organisations — permission inheritance, AES-256 envelope encryption, append-only audit trail, bilingual interface. Built as a direct replacement for legacy document platforms.
Private retrieval-augmented assistant answering customer and internal questions from your own documents. Hybrid search with reranking, permission-aware retrieval, and on-premises deployment for organisations that cannot send data to a public model.
04 — Engagements
Every engagement opens with a free scoping call and a written proposal. The figures below are starting points for typical scope — the proposal carries the real number.
A senior engineer in your corner for architecture and delivery decisions.
A working system delivered end to end — design, build, deploy, hand over.
Connect what you have to what you bought, without touching the core.
Also available: Server management, DevOps & deployment from $5,000 · AI & RAG deployment from $6,000 · Security & architecture audit from $4,000 · Product licensing (Kento, Archiva, RokyBot) priced per deployment · ask for a custom quote
05 — How it works
Forty-five minutes, free. You describe the problem; I tell you honestly whether it's a sprint, a full build, or something you shouldn't pay anyone to do yet.
Within five working days: scope, architecture direction, delivery milestones, and a fixed price. If the scope changes later, we re-price in writing before any work starts.
Demos every two weeks, source in your repository from day one, and a documented handover — runbook, credentials, and architecture notes — so your team can run it without me.
Get in touch
Banking, government, enterprise, or a product that has to survive contact with real users. Tell me what you're trying to ship.
info@sajjadjameel.com