Monthly requests handled in production
Years of platform & cloud infrastructure ownership
Engineers collaborated with on architecture
Technologies used in production stacks
About Haris Khurshid
Haris Khurshid is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Islamabad, Pakistan. He builds Node.js microservices and owns the Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure they run on, handling 50M+ monthly requests in production.
Title: Senior Platform Engineer. Location: Islamabad, Pakistan.
Core technologies: Node.js, JavaScript, PHP, Python, SQL, Bash, Fastify, Express, BullMQ, Pino, Socket.IO, Kubernetes, Docker, Nginx, HAProxy, PM2, AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, S3-Compatible Object Storage, MinIO, NAS, GitLab CI/CD, Containerized Deployments, Linux Administration, Git, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redis (Cache & Pub/Sub), RabbitMQ, WebSockets, APM Monitoring, Pino Logging, Prometheus, Nagios, Zabbix, Custom Funnel Tracking, OAuth2, JWT, SSO, RBAC, 2FA, SSL/TLS, Repository Pattern, Event-Driven Design, Queue-Based Processing, Multi-Node Replication, Automated Failover, Laravel, CodeIgniter 3/4, RAG Pipelines, Vector Search (Chroma), LLM Orchestration, Streaming AI APIs (SSE), FastAPI, Scrapy, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, TanStack.
Education: B.Sc. Computer Science, Abasyn University (AUIC), Islamabad, 2019.
Selected projects:
- MCP Shield: multi-node payment fraud detection engine
- MCP Shield Assistant: conversational AI over scoped fraud data (RAG)
- VTX: DOM capture and interaction reconstruction
- Veri Scanner: DOM-similarity clustering with distributed storage and queues
- Digital Traffic Funnel: end-to-end traffic analytics platform
- MCP Certify: real-time compliance verification and alerting
- PayExchanger: crypto trading platform (25+ currencies)
- Complaint.pk: enterprise complaint management portal
Platform Capabilities
- Distributed Systems
- Microservices Architecture
- Container Orchestration
- CI/CD Automation
- High Availability & Failover
- Event-Driven Processing
- Observability & Monitoring
- Performance Engineering
- AI & RAG Systems
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Infrastructure & Platform
Cloud-native systems I've built and own
Distributed Storage System
S3-compatible object storage engine with multi-node replication, automated failover, and RabbitMQ-based async file transfer queuing.
Shortcode Management System
End-to-end shortcode lifecycle management tool for an operator regulatory authority, managing partner shortcode processes across a cloud-native, Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
Selected Work
Infrastructure and backend systems built for production scale platforms.
MCP Shield
Real-time payment fraud detection platform. Built the analytics portal and maintained the backend fraud engine running across a multi-node, parallel processing environment.
MCP Shield Assistant
Conversational AI companion to a fraud detection platform, answering natural-language questions about transactions and fraud codes using scoped data lookups and RAG retrieval, over a streaming multi-tenant API with audit logging.
Veri Scanner
Traffic scanning and analysis platform. Migrated legacy portal to Vue/Nuxt and built a DOM-similarity clustering engine to group thousands of landing pages by structural pattern.
Digital Traffic Funnel
Internal analytics platform tracking traffic, sessions, user journeys, and engagement across operator platforms, built end-to-end from data pipeline to reporting portal.
MCP Certify
Automated compliance verification system for payment pages. Detects tampering, drift, and unauthorised changes in real time with a built-in escalation and alerting system.
VTX: Verify Transaction System
POC tool that captures the DOM of payment and landing pages, reverse engineers the structure, and reconstructs end-user interaction flows (clicks, events, and actions) to verify whether a transaction reflects real human behaviour.
PayExchanger
Secure crypto trading platform supporting real time transactions across 25+ currencies.
Complaint.pk
Enterprise backend system for complaint management with secure authentication and reporting infrastructure.
Additional Projects
A broader look at production systems, SaaS backends, and high volume data pipelines I've built.
Automation System
Built a headless browser orchestration system using Puppeteer to automate structured booking workflows, with optimized proxy strategies to reduce execution latency.
- Node.js
- Puppeteer
Data Pipelines
Architected scraping pipelines for large-scale product, vendor, and review data collection using distributed workers for parallel extraction.
- Python
- Scrapy
- MongoDB
- MySQL
Learning Platform
Built a web portal for students and teachers with quiz engine, multimedia lecture delivery, progress tracking, and role-based permissions.
- Laravel
- MySQL
Rawdah Systems
Built a multi-school management system covering all administrative operations across multiple institutions, fully digital, no paper-based workflows.
- Laravel
- MySQL
Silverstone LR
Built a CodeIgniter 3 property management portal for listing, managing, and exporting property data as PDF, replacing a manual WordPress-based workflow.
- CodeIgniter 3
- MySQL
- PDF Export
Professional Experience
A history of ownership in distributed systems and backend architecture.
Software Design & Development Engineer
MCP Insight
Lead engineer across multiple internal and client-facing products handling 50M+ monthly requests. Responsible for backend architecture, portal development, and system modernization (including Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, and containerized deployments) across a 10+ person engineering team.
Junior Software Developer
Nexel Services LLC
Built and maintained backend APIs for a ride hailing platform using ASP.NET MVC.
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