Ahsan Ashfaq

InsuranceMarket.ae — Dubai, UAE (Remote)

2020 - Present

Architected and delivered a custom Laravel CRM managing the full insurance customer lifecycle — leads, renewals, policy tracking, and agent workflows — reducing manual follow-up by 45% and improving renewal conversion by 30%
Designed Eloquent ORM schemas and MySQL relational models unifying customer, policy, and claims data across 5 insurance providers, cutting reporting time from days to under 2 hours
Built RESTful APIs with Laravel Sanctum consumed by a React.js SPA and mobile clients, supporting 200,000+ monthly active users at 99.9% uptime
Implemented Laravel Queues & Jobs for async document generation and notifications, reducing page response times by 60% and processing 10,000+ background jobs daily
Led code reviews for a team of 5, enforcing DRY standards and PHPUnit coverage — raising test coverage from 28% to 82% and cutting production bugs by 50%

PsychPlus.io — USA (Remote)

2018 - 2020

Engineered the core PsychPlus telehealth platform on ASP.NET Core Web API — a secure, HIPAA-compliant backend that onboarded 15,000+ patients within 6 months of launch
Integrated e-Prescribing (DrFirst/NewCrop) into patient management, reducing prescription turnaround by 70% and eliminating paper-based workflows
Architected RESTful endpoints with JWT auth and role-based access for patients, providers, and admins — sub-150ms average response across 1M+ monthly API calls
Designed PostgreSQL schemas and EF Core migrations for records, scheduling, and prescription history, reducing no-shows by 30% via automated reminders
Integrated Stripe (billing), Twilio (SMS/video), and Google Calendar, accelerating delivery by 25% and eliminating $18K/year in admin overhead

Convo — San Francisco, CA (Remote)

2016 - 2018

Developed a dedicated ASP.NET Core backend module for an Italian enterprise client (Pepsi, Nestlé, Coca-Cola), delivering a multi-tenant collaboration solution handling 500,000+ daily transactions at 99.95% uptime
Architected ASP.NET Core Web API services with EF Core and SQL Server for multi-brand campaign workflows, reducing campaign setup time by 40%
Implemented RBAC and OAuth 2.0, ensuring enterprise-grade data segregation across 500+ companies and passing all client security audits on first submission
Built real-time notification features with Node.js/Socket.IO alongside the .NET backend, reducing message delivery latency by 65%
Conducted code reviews and mentored 3 junior developers — cutting code inconsistencies by 90% across 8 consecutive zero-critical-bug releases

DatumSquare IT Services — Lahore, Pakistan

September 2016 - Present

Designed software architecture for 10+ client web applications across e-commerce, ERP, and SaaS, applying OOP, design patterns, and clean code across PHP, Laravel, Python, and .NET stacks
Built a Python-based ERP with a Laravel API microservices backend, automating financial reporting workflows that saved clients ~120 hours/month
Supervised and mentored a team of 4 through Agile sprint planning and weekly code reviews, improving on-time delivery by 30% over 18 months

Masterkey Systems — Karachi, Pakistan

2013 - 2016

Built a full-stack real-estate listings SPA in JavaScript and C#, aggregating data from 5 sources via REST APIs and implementing Elasticsearch search that reduced query time by 70%
Contributed 5,000+ lines of JavaScript and C# for a SOA/web services layer, enabling migration of 3 enterprise clients from legacy systems to modern RESTful architecture

Arpur Tech — Karachi, Pakistan

2011 - 2013

Developed client-facing PHP web applications with test plans and debugging scripts that reduced QA cycle time by 25% and improved defect detection by 35%
Modernised legacy codebases to OOP and design pattern standards, cutting new-developer onboarding time by 40% and boosting long-term maintainability

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