Muhammad Hassan Azam

Software Engineer · 6+ Years

Building systems that scale — and last.

6+ years · Karachi, Pakistan · Open to relocation

hassanazam@live.com · LinkedIn · GitHub

Software Engineer with 6+ years building high-quality products at venture-backed startups. From founding engineer to tech lead. From zero to $50M processed. From 43M transactions/day to legacy modernization.

  • Founding engineer of payment gateway $0 → $50M processed in 90 days
  • Architected banking platform 43M transactions/day, 99.99% uptime
  • Tech Lead Led team of 5 engineers, 90% reduction in post-release issues
  • Currently Enterprise platform modernization at dotCMS

At a Glance

6+ years
43M txn/day
$50M processed
99.99% uptime
5 engineers led
90% fewer bugs
3 VC-backed startups
3 engineers trained

Experience

dotCMS — Senior Software Engineer

Current

Leading modernization of enterprise-scale content management platform.

  • Leading modernization of large legacy codebase
    Improving maintainability and performance of enterprise CMS
  • Incremental refactoring without breaking existing functionality
    Balancing technical debt reduction with feature delivery

Tech: Java, Enterprise CMS

DCore (DGlobal) — Senior Software Engineer → Tech Lead

Cloud-Agnostic Banking Platform

June 2022 – Present

Architecting cloud-agnostic Modern Banking Platform for fintechs and banks.

  • Spearheaded core architecture for highly extensible, cloud-agnostic Modern Banking Platform
    Enabling successful onboarding of diverse Bank & Fintech clients
  • Engineered mission-critical backend services: product-engine, transaction-engine, ledger-service
    Ensuring 99.99% uptime while handling peaks of 43.2M transactions/day
  • Served as Tech Lead for 5 engineers
    Drove end-to-end delivery for core modules: currency, organisation, mandate, lending services
  • Initiated automated testing practices across the team
    Achieved 90% reduction in post-release issues
  • Led design of low-code, pluggable component architecture
    Accelerated client customizations by estimated 50%
  • Delivered comprehensive multi-currency support
    All ISO standards + custom-defined currencies, expanding global market reach
  • Automated build, testing, and deployment via CI/CD
    ArgoCD for GitOps, Testcontainers for integration testing, Apache APISIX API Gateway
  • Developed technical training for 3 implementation engineers
    Improved platform proficiency and accelerated client onboarding

Tech: Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Pulsar, AWS, GCP, ArgoCD, gRPC

Foree — Senior Software Engineer

Payment App and Gateway

January 2022 – May 2022

Led feature development for Foree Business — a Stripe-like payment gateway.

  • Successfully led the Foree Business team in delivering quality features
    Bill Management, Merchant onboarding and KYC, Funds Settlement Module
  • Designed and implemented Virtual Credit Points feature
    Resulted in 30% growth of transaction volume, 50M Credit Points distributed in first month
  • Contributed to integrating a bank (UBL) with Foree payment platform
    Expanding payment network connectivity

Tech: Java, Python, Django, Flask, FastAPI, REST APIs, Redis, Celery, MongoDB, MySQL, AWS, JMeter

Foree — Software Engineer (Founding Engineer)

Payment Gateway · Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia

October 2018 – August 2021

First engineer on Foree Business. Built payment gateway from zero to $50M processed in 90 days.

  • Founding Engineer of first revenue-generating product: Foree Business
    Stripe-like payment gateway connecting fintechs, banks, and e-wallets
  • Wrote the first line of code
    Actively designed and developed MVP, grew into successful product in 3 months
  • Implemented async architecture for background job processing
    Redis for queue management, Celery for task workers
  • Optimized application performance
    Async architecture for logging, performance benchmarking and optimization
  • Developed core features of payment engine
    Connects fintechs, banks, and e-wallets in unified platform
  • Established engineering practices
    TDD, high-quality review guidelines, maintainable and readable codebase

Tech: Python, Django, Flask, REST APIs, Redis, Celery, MongoDB, MySQL, AWS, JMeter, PCI Compliance

Skills

Backend & APIs

Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Python, Django, Flask, FastAPI, REST APIs, gRPC, OAuth 2.0, JWT

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, EKS, Lambda), GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD (ArgoCD), Helm Charts

Data & Messaging

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar

Distributed Systems & Messaging

Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, event-driven architecture, Redis (caching, queues), async processing (Celery)

Leadership & Process

Tech Lead experience (5 engineers), code review practices, engineering standards, technical training and mentorship

Projects

pyconfigmanager

GitHub · PyPI

Python package for external config management. Published on PyPI and actively maintained.

Python, PyPI packaging

MediaIcon — Broadcast Monitoring

Archive

End-to-end real-time broadcast monitoring solution. Counts ad runs on TV channels using audio fingerprinting. Processes live streams in real-time.

Python, ffmpeg, audio fingerprinting, AWS

Education

Bachelor of Engineering

Computer and Information Systems

NED University of Engineering and Technology

December 2014 – September 2018

Ready to talk?

I build systems that scale — and last.

LinkedIn · GitHub

Based in Karachi, Pakistan · Open to relocation