Aamar Shahzad

Aamar Shahzad

Agentic AI Developer & AWS Full Stack Specialist

Professional Experience

Full Stack Developer

Edge Signal

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

MAR 2025 – Present

  • Working on cutting-edge AI and blockchain solutions
  • Developing scalable web applications and services
  • Implementing modern development practices and technologies
Next.jsReactNode.jsAWSDockerKubernetes

Graduate Research Assistant & ML Developer

T-RIZE Lab (FUSÉE Lab) (ETS) Université du Québec

Montreal, Canada

JAN 2023 – JAN 2025

  • Designed a blockchain-based CCFL system for secure federated learning, improving data privacy by 80% with Python, LangChain, and CCF
  • Integrated Generative AI in federated models, improving NLP performance by 25% with Hugging Face, PyTorch Lightning, and OpenAI APIs
  • Built Solidity smart contracts for auditable model updates, ensuring 100% transparency on IPFS
  • Deployed secure AI models with Intel SGX, Docker, and Kubernetes, achieving a 30% boost in training efficiency
  • Streamlined AI pipelines, reducing training time by 20% with TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Scikit-learn

Senior Full Stack Developer

BCDapps

Islamabad, Pakistan

JAN 2021 – DEC 2022

  • Scaled an e-commerce platform, boosting user engagement by 50% and revenue by 35% with Next.js, NestJS, AWS, and PostgreSQL
  • Integrated an AI-driven recommendation system, increasing customer satisfaction by 30% using Python, PostgreSQL, and AWS Lambda
  • Deployed secure smart contracts for product ownership, ensuring 100% transaction transparency with Solidity, Ethers.js, and Three.js
  • Enhanced platform scalability, reducing latency by 20% using Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and Express.js
Next.jsExpress.jsNestJSAWSKubernetesThree.jsCI/CDPostgreSQLSolidityEthers.jsPythonAWS Lambda

Full Stack Developer

01 Hire Private Limited

Islamabad, Pakistan

NOV 2020 – DEC 2021

  • Developed a scalable recruitment platform with Vue.js, LoopBack.js, NestJS, and PostgreSQL, supporting 15,000+ active users and improving system efficiency by 30%
  • Implemented an AI-powered candidate matching system using TensorFlow, cutting recruitment time by 40%
  • Integrated third-party APIs for seamless job posting and application tracking using RESTful APIs and GraphQL, reducing job posting time by 40% and improving platform user engagement by 25%
  • Migrated legacy code to Next.js, resulting in a 30% performance improvement
Next.jsExpress.jsNestJSAWSKubernetesCI/CDPostgreSQLTensorFlow

Junior Software Developer

Business Incubation Centre (QAU)

Islamabad, Pakistan

SEP 2018 – OCT 2020

  • Built a financial analytics platform with real-time data processing using C, C++, and Firebase, serving 2,000+ users
  • Optimized data pipelines with C++, achieving a 25% reduction in processing time
  • Produced a custom UI toolkit with React.js, Bootstrap, HTML5, and CSS3, ensuring design consistency
  • Implemented comprehensive testing and validation frameworks using Jest, Mocha, and Firebase, automating unit and integration tests, reducing production errors by 30% and enhancing code stability
CC++BootstrapReact.jsHTML5CSS3jQueryFirebase

Education

M.Sc. in Information Technology Engineering

École de Technologie Supérieure, Université du Québec

Montreal, Canada

JAN 2023 – JAN 2025

  • Thesis: CCFL: A Digital Ledger Technology-based Confidential Consortium Federated Learning with Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)
  • Research Focus: Integration of Blockchain and Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
  • Completed advanced coursework in Blockchain Applications at University of Montreal
  • Specialized in AI/ML applications through inter-university collaboration

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

Quaid-e-Azam University

Islamabad, Pakistan

SEP 2017 – DEC 2021

  • Final Project: "MedRec: Medical Health Record Management System on Ethereum"
  • Coursework: Blockchain Technologies, Machine Learning, Data Structures, Distributed Systems

Technical Skills

Languages

JavaScript (ES6+)TypeScriptSolidityPythonC++RustGoJava

Frameworks & Libraries

FlaskDjangoFastAPINext.jsVue.jsNode.jsExpressGatsbyReduxNestJSStrapi CMSThree.jsTensorFlowReact.jsAngular

Blockchain

EthereumSmart ContractsIPFSWeb3.jsEthers.jsPolygonPolkadotDeFiLayer-2 Solutions

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, ECS, EKS, Elastic Search)DockerKubernetesCI/CDJenkinsGitLab CITerraformAnsible

Databases

MongoDBPostgreSQLMySQLDynamoDBFirebaseCassandra

Other Tools

GitLinuxCloudflare ServicesTruffleHardhatJupyterApache KafkaRabbitMQ

AI/ML Tools

PyTorchScikit-learnKerasLangChainPineconeOpenAI API

Certifications

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Infrastructure

Coursera2022

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Primitives

Coursera2022

Blockchain Specialization

Coursera2023

Technical Support Fundamentals

Coursera2020

Python Data Structures

Coursera2019

Programming for Everybody (Python)

Coursera2018

Featured Projects

Get in Touch

Interested in collaborating or have a project in mind? Feel free to reach out!

My GitHub Contributions

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