Resume
Sadam Hussain
Principal Software Engineer · Software Architect · AI Engineer · 11+ years · Pakistan · Working with teams worldwide
Summary
Principal engineer and software architect specialising in SaaS platforms, startup MVPs and production AI systems. Track record of rebuilding systems under load, cutting infrastructure cost, and leading teams through architecture change without stopping delivery.
Experience
2021 - Present
Founder & Principal Engineer
Independent practice · Softedin
Architecture partner for startups and enterprise teams. Building and operating SaaS and AI products end to end.
2018 - 2021
Lead Software Architect
Enterprise product group
Owned platform architecture across multiple products. Led a team of nine, introduced event-driven reporting and cut infra spend by a third.
2015 - 2018
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Product & agency work
Delivered high-traffic Laravel and Vue applications, payment integrations, and the first large-scale queue systems I shipped.
2013 - 2015
Software Engineer
Early career
Learned the craft on legacy systems - the fastest possible education in why architecture matters.
Selected work
Softedin - Software studio operating system
Estimate accuracy: +38% · Invoicing cycle: 6 days → 1 · Reporting queries: sub-200ms
PEEQ - Real-time tracking platform
Live map latency: < 800ms · Ingest throughput: 12k events/min · History query time: 31s → 0.4s
Zizta - AI SEO platform
Editor agreement: 90% · Cost per brief: -61% · Draft-to-publish time: 4h → 25m
RocketDrop - Backend engineering for a global wholesale distribution platform
Marketplaces integrated: 8+ · Carrier integrations: 4 · Accounting sync: Automated
WeGetMusic - Full-stack engineering for a music licensing and sync platform
Catalog size: 250,000+ tracks · Artists on platform: 16,000+ · Platforms served: Web, iOS, Android
Symphonic - Backend engineering across a DSP delivery platform and its product rewrite
Stores and DSPs delivered to: 200+ · Platform rewrite: Zend to Yii2 · Infrastructure: Migrated to AWS
PostDovo - Backend engineering for an AI social content pipeline
Platforms supported: 11 · Content plan: 30-day campaigns · Generation pipeline: Async via Lambda
Taking on 2 new partnerships for Q4
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