Experience / 2018 — present

Ownership over time.

Architecture, leadership, and production systems — current role at TEKHQS, then inspectable Ferrum infrastructure. The resume carries the full employment record. Concurrent instruction at ECS sits inside the Ferrum years on purpose.

TEKHQS · Feb 2025 — Present

Lahore, Pakistan

Lead Blockchain Engineer

Lead blockchain engineering and solution architecture across production blockchain, wallet, and RWA systems. Own architecture for a six-engineer blockchain division.

Own solution architecture across Canton, wallet, and Layer-1 work — issuance, transfer, custody, and protocol engineering.
Set division engineering standards — CI/CD, modular services, and secure development practices — while mentoring blockchain engineers and running solution-design reviews.
Directed R&D into threshold custody and privacy-preserving identity. Implementation details from current employment stay unpublished.

Ferrum Network · Aug 2022 — Oct 2024

United States

Senior Blockchain Engineer

Led R&D on cross-chain bridging and interoperability, shipping four bridge and swap systems to production across heterogeneous networks.

Architected MultiSwap Alpha — a cross-chain swap system that unifies token exchange across multiple blockchain networks into a single infrastructure layer.
Created the Linear Release Engine, an on-chain vesting protocol that has vested roughly $10M worth of tokens through structured, auditable release schedules.
Engineered the core integration layer for cross-chain communication and a microservices architecture for blockchain infrastructure, including production bridge work for named counterparties.

ECS · Sep 2023 — May 2024

Islamabad, Pakistan

Blockchain Instructor

Built Web3 training across four tracks while remaining in production engineering at Ferrum.

Developed curricula covering blockchain fundamentals, dApps, smart contracts, and DeFi.

OptimusFox · Jan 2020 — Aug 2022

Lahore, Pakistan

Blockchain Engineer

Contributed to blockchain solutions and server-side integrations for corporate clients on multi-stakeholder systems.

Worked with senior engineers on complex corporate blockchain projects spanning research, design, and delivery.

Miranz Technologies · Mar 2018 — Dec 2019

Lahore, Pakistan

Blockchain Intern → Associate

Entered professional blockchain engineering as an intern and progressed to associate, coordinating Web3 development with the team lead.

Supported blockchain and Web3 development tasks while building the production engineering foundation the later protocol work sits on.

Full employment record on the resume →