Hi, I'm Waqar. For 6+ years I've designed APIs and data pipelines for AML screening, KYC/KYB verification and adverse-media monitoring, using PHP/Laravel, Python and MongoDB. Today I lead a backend team across a compliance product suite used by businesses to screen people, companies and transactions.
This is the kind of thing I build every day. Type a technology or a problem and my projects are ranked by relevance.
All at Programmers Force, most of them inside one compliance-data platform where accuracy and speed both matter.
Built backend components that extend the pipeline shared with AML Watcher, surfacing risk-relevant news and media coverage about people and businesses.
Backend services and API endpoints inside the shared compliance-data platform, supporting transaction-level risk screening.
Python/Selenium crawlers that extract official business data, plus Laravel APIs that store and serve verified records for KYB decisions.
Backend services within the compliance suite supporting face-based identity verification workflows.
Joined as a founding engineer. Built messaging APIs and Firebase push across web, iOS and Android, with the backend supporting several hundred concurrent users.
Server-side firewall rule management and access control, giving operations teams one interface for server configuration.
Backend work on a platform that helps sales teams find and qualify B2B leads from large prospect datasets.
Six years at Programmers Force, growing one level at a time.
Founding engineer on WhistleIt. Built and documented core backend features and stabilised early releases.
Laravel apps on MongoDB and Redis, REST APIs, Firebase push notifications and Google Authenticator 2FA.
Built the KYB crawlers and APIs, and independently engineered AML Watcher's LLM-powered API module.
Lead and mentor the backend team, set architecture for the compliance suite and own code review and CI/CD standards.
Highlighted tools are the ones I use daily. The rest I've shipped to production.
University of Engineering and Technology (UET), 2016 – 2020
I'm open to senior backend roles and project work, especially in fintech, compliance, or anything that has to handle a lot of data correctly.