Omair Afzal · 13+ years in software architecture, engineering leadership, AI systems, and developer infrastructure. Remote / Global.
Professional summary
Senior Software Architect with 13+ years of experience designing distributed systems, AI native platforms, and developer tooling at scale. Active open source contributor to Prisma, NestJS, Qdrant, LanceDB, Tauri, and 20+ other projects spanning Rust, TypeScript, and Python ecosystems.
Currently leading engineering at ClickGUARD, shaping REWA's cross platform rent and rewards architecture, and architecting AI driven products for early stage startups. I specialize in event driven architectures, mobile to backend platforms, vector search infrastructure, and resilient systems that handle millions of daily transactions. I ship code that matters in production, not in demos.
Experience
Mar 2021 — Present · Remote
Head of Engineering · ClickGUARD
Leading engineering for an ad fraud protection platform processing millions of daily transactions. Driving technical strategy, team growth, and the integration of AI powered threat detection systems.
Architecting real time fraud detection pipelines that adapt to evolving threat patterns
Leading the transition to event driven microservices for scalable threat analysis
Mentoring a distributed engineering team in building resilient, high throughput systems
Evaluating and integrating AI/ML models for automated anomaly detection
Aug 2025 — Present · Remote
Senior Solution Architect · REWA
Leading solution architecture across REWA's tenant mobile app and backend platform for digital rent payments and loyalty rewards in the UAE. Aligning mobile, API, data, payment, landlord, and operations surfaces into coherent end to end journeys.
Owning cross platform architecture connecting the Flutter tenant app with NestJS core services and shared data contracts
Designing durable domain boundaries for tenants, landlords, leases, payments, rewards, identity, and communications
Guiding payment and onboarding orchestration across card, bank transfer, and direct debit journeys with resumable, idempotent flows
Coordinating architecture across the landlord portal, operations backoffice, database migrations, cloud deployments, and observability
Architecting the technical foundation for an AI driven parenting assistant. Designing RAG pipelines, semantic memory systems, and privacy first data architectures for sensitive family contexts.
Designing the cognitive architecture powering the Waffle AI parenting coach
Implementing semantic memory and retrieval using Milvus and graph databases
Orchestrating multi modal interaction flows across voice, text, and vision
Ensuring privacy first design and GDPR compliance for sensitive family data
2022 — Present · Remote
Technical Architect (Consultant) · Coredirection Health & Fitness
Designing event driven architectures for high throughput health data processing and real time analytics. Leading the migration from monolithic systems to scalable, event sourced microservices.
Architecting the event sourcing backbone using Apache Kafka for health telemetry
Implementing real time data processing pipelines for wearable device streams
Designing AI powered workout optimization and virtual coaching systems
Ensuring horizontal scalability to handle 100K+ concurrent event streams
Jan 2015 — Jan 2021 · Remote
Senior Software Engineer · AlayaCare
Spearheaded the migration from monolithic PHP to a microservices architecture serving enterprise healthcare clients. Built core scheduling infrastructure and GraphQL federation layers at scale.
Leading the architectural migration from PHP monolith to Python/NestJS microservices
Designing the GraphQL federation layer for unified data access across 20+ services
Implementing CI/CD pipelines with mutation testing for deployment confidence
Mentoring engineers in domain driven design and clean architecture principles
Omair Afzal