M. Junaid Akhtar Khan
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© 2026 Junaid Akhtar. All rights reserved.Senior Software Engineer • Backend & Full-Stack

Skills & Technologies

Technical capabilities developed through real production systems and long-running services.

Backend & APIs

Node.js & TypeScript

Production systems using Express, strong typing, and disciplined async flows.

API Design

Versioning, idempotency, pagination, rate limiting, and contract clarity.

Authentication & Security

JWT, OAuth, RBAC, session strategy, and boundary protection.

Integration Patterns

Third-party APIs, webhooks, retries, and defensive error handling.

Frontend & Full-Stack

Next.js & React

SSR, hybrid rendering, server components, and internal tooling.

Real-time Features

WebSockets, SSE, streaming updates, and concurrency handling.

Data Visualization

Operational dashboards, metrics, and system insight surfaces.

Responsive Design

Mobile-first thinking and cross-device reliability.

Data & Persistence

MongoDB

Indexes, aggregation, tenant partitioning, and performance tuning.

SQL Databases

Transactions, migrations, constraints, and query optimization.

Redis

Caching, ephemeral state, and pub/sub workloads.

Data Modeling

Integrity, lifecycle planning, and schema evolution.

Infrastructure & Operations

Azure Cloud

App Services, Azure Functions, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, Azure IoT Hub

Linux & Cloud VM

Deployment environments, networking fundamentals, and reliability.

Process Management

Supervision, graceful restarts, and zero-downtime strategies.

Monitoring

Logs, metrics, alerting, and production diagnostics.

Engineering Practices

Refactoring & Maintenance

Incremental modernization and debt reduction.

Validation & Testing

Boundary enforcement and realistic failure coverage.

Performance

Profiling-driven optimization and scalability planning.

Documentation

Architecture records, APIs, and operational clarity.

Architecture & Design

Multi-tenant Systems

Isolation models, partitioning, and governance.

Reliability Engineering

Retries, resilience, and graceful degradation.

Scalability

Statelessness and distributed system fundamentals.

Trade-off Analysis

Balancing complexity, cost, and future adaptability.