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Syed Ali Konain

Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Lahore, Pakistan

Summary

Senior full-stack engineer with 5+ years building SaaS products, internal platforms, content workflows, automation tools and production web applications across AI, AdTech and FinTech. I turn complex operational workflows into reliable software across frontend, backend, data ingestion, QA and AI-assisted automation.

Skills

Frontend
React, Next.js, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, Tailwind, HTML/CSS, Figma
Backend
Node.js, NestJS, Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Supabase, PostgreSQL, MySQL
Automation and data
Python, web scraping, metadata ingestion, recommendation systems, podcast and audiobook processing, Google Sheets and Drive automation
AI and workflow automation
AI ad generation, media pipeline automation, AI-assisted metadata enrichment, subtitle generation, content categorization, n8n
DevOps and tools
Docker, AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Linux, Linear, Jira
Leadership and QA
E2E testing, PR reviews, debugging, technical leadership

Experience

Senior Software Engineer, Speechify

June 2024 to present

  • Led full-stack development across reader experiences, mobile audio workflows, book and audiobook ingestion, internal dashboards, automation tooling and AI-assisted media workflows.
  • Built AI-powered ad generation and creative automation workflows that produce concepts, prompts, images, videos, captions, demos and campaign-ready assets using LLMs, media-generation APIs, Google Sheets, Google Drive and batch pipelines.
  • Restored Android background audiobook playback with native audio file handling and decryption, fewer unnecessary UI updates, and guards against chapter-transition race conditions.
  • Engineered reader features including highlights, notes, bookmarks, editable note boxes, content sections, book links, reader state, podcast episode flows and backend persistence for reading data.
  • Developed backend APIs, DTOs, services, database migrations, E2E tests and Supabase integrations for content lists, library services, book clubs, highlights, notes, bookmarks, podcast episodes and metadata workflows.
  • Built Python automation for 300,000+ public-domain books: metadata scraping, audiobook processing, subtitle generation, topic and category assignment, genre conversion, Supabase file uploads and recommendation experiments.
  • Contributed to book and audiobook ingestion infrastructure: Supabase connectivity, audiobook asset handling, SFTP workflows, cover image metadata, orchestration logic, CI build verification and Docker/Gradle caching.
  • Reviewed PRs, managed Linear tasks, ran QA and E2E testing, debugged production issues and supported teammates across frontend, backend, mobile, data ingestion, automation and AI pipelines.

Software Engineer, MonetizeMore

January 2023 to July 2024

  • Upgraded an ad inspection tool with a redesigned Figma-based UI and new React and JavaScript features for publisher-facing ad operations.
  • Resolved recurring bugs in publisher ad setups, reducing reported setup errors and improving tool reliability.
  • Designed and implemented a rating and feedback system for publishers and clients to report product issues.
  • Implemented an ad overlay module in React to expose ad rendering information for internal debugging and performance analysis.
  • Used Docker to replicate production environments for debugging and local testing, improving CI reliability.

Full-Stack Developer, i2c

June 2021 to December 2022

  • Built card management modules using Java, Spring Boot, React, CSS and Bootstrap for fintech web applications.
  • Developed frontend and backend features for client-facing financial systems, integrating Java services with database-driven workflows.
  • Configured MySQL workflows, HTTP routing and backend services for application setup, integration and deployment.
  • Containerized backend services with Docker to improve local development, integration testing and deployment consistency.

Full-Stack Developer Intern, AI and Multidisciplinary Research Lab

November 2020 to March 2021

  • Led the frontend of a report submission system in Angular, CSS and TypeScript.
  • Handled data flow between the frontend and a Python/Django backend on PostgreSQL.
  • Deployed and maintained the application on a remote server using Git.

Selected work

Education

Master of Business Administration, Istanbul Gelisim University, Istanbul

August 2023 to February 2025

BS Information Technology, PUCIT, University of the Punjab, Lahore

September 2017 to May 2021

Tonight's program

Eight acts, hidden around the site. Ticks mean you've seen them.

  1. I. The cold readOpening act, top of the home page
  2. II. The hover tellWhile you look through the work
  3. III. The engineer's trickRight after the work
  4. IV. The vanishing cardEncore on a case file
  5. V. Think of a numberEncore on a case file
  6. VI. The 1089Encore on a case file
  7. VII. The sealed predictionFinale, bottom of the home page
  8. VIII. The secret wordAnywhere. Type the magic word, or tap me five times.