Fahad Imran

Fahad Imran

Senior Software Engineer specializing in end-to-end fintech and payment architecture.

Based in: Islamabad, PakistanCurrently: Senior Software Engineer, Nomod (via Alfabolt)Experience: 4 years

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A product-focused engineer with over 4 years of experience building scalable systems across payments, commerce, and consumer fintech. He has a proven track record of leading teams and delivering complex features like provider-agnostic payment layers and multi-market mobile applications.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Nomod (via Alfabolt)Remote (UAE)workApr 2024 – Present

Summary

Authored the RFC for a provider-agnostic payment layer and led the refactor of Link, Invoice, and Checkout across five providers plus Apple Pay and Google Pay, enabling backend-driven routing and removing provider-specific releases. Co-authored the Dynamic Currency Conversion RFC and led frontend delivery across 5+ payment methods and wallets, enabling home-currency payments and a new FX-margin revenue stream. Migrated card tokenization to Basis Theory and rolled out CSP across four web apps, helping clear Nomod's VAPT audit for PCI DSS compliance. Built Nomod's most-requested WooCommerce gateway, cutting merchant integration time by roughly 50%. Led the mobile KYC migration from Sumsub to AiPrise across UAE and KSA, supporting 190+ merchant activations per week on a 5,500+ DAU app.

What I did

  • Generalized payment details collection, tokenization, intent creation, 3DS flows, and webhook-based redirection into a config-driven architecture.

Results

  • Proposed and implemented a generic, backend-driven frontend component to load any number of payment providers without code duplication.
  • Refactored the payment integration foundation to enable rapid shipping of multiple providers while minimizing regressions.
  • Enabled backend-driven routing and removed provider-specific releases.
  • Enabled home-currency payments and a new FX-margin revenue stream.
  • Helped clear Nomod's VAPT audit for PCI DSS compliance.
  • Cut merchant integration time by roughly 50% for WooCommerce gateway.
  • Supported 190+ merchant activations per week on a 5,500+ DAU app.
Apple PayGoogle PayBasis TheoryCSPWooCommerceSumsubAiPrisePCI DSSAdyenTabbyTamara

Full Stack Engineer

Pine (via Alfabolt)Remote (Norway)workNov 2023 – Apr 2024

Summary

Led a team of three from architecture through launch, owning the React Native apps and Firebase/Cloud Functions backend across 10+ venues. Designed the Stripe group-payment model, dynamically recalculating and authorizing each participant's share as people joined or left an order. Built the serverless backend and mobile experiences for group orders, solo and group payments, loyalty points, and real-time order updates across customer and merchant apps.

Results

  • Increased the number of order completions in the app through the group-split feature.
  • Improved week-1 retention as users returned to the app to order alongside their peers.
  • Drove a direct increase in the number of orders placed through the app for partner restaurants after rolling out the group-discount feature.
  • Managed backend across 10+ venues.
React NativeFirebaseCloud FunctionsStripe

Frontend Engineer

RAYNE (via Alfabolt)Remote (UAE)workAug 2023 – Nov 2023

Summary

Built a reusable Next.js marketing platform and led its migration from hard-coded pages to Sanity CMS with ISR, supporting localization across 5+ markets and achieving a 100 Lighthouse SEO score.

Results

  • Achieved a 100 Lighthouse SEO score.
  • Supported localization across 5+ markets.
Next.jsSanity CMSISR

Skills

Technical

TypeScriptTypeScript
JavaScriptJavaScript
React NativeReact Native
ReactReact
REST APIs
Stripe
FirebaseFirebase
Firestore
Cloud Functions
Basis Theory
Next.jsNext.js
FlutterFlutter
Redux ToolkitRedux Toolkit
RTK Query
TailwindTailwind
Apple PayApple Pay
Google Pay
GitHub ActionsGitHub Actions
CI/CD
Tamara
CSP
Noon
AFS
Node.jsNode.js
Adyen
Tabby
Utopia design system
FigmaFigma
Prototyping
UX Design
GitHubGitHub
NotionNotion
Micro interactions

Areas of expertise

PCI DSS

Projects

Diary App Experiment

personal
A personal project and work-in-progress experiment focused on 3D animations.
3D animations

Pill

personal
A scratchpad for macOS featuring a floating window for text and images, focused on clean UX, native feel, micro-animations, and standard macOS keyboard shortcuts.
macOS

Education

B.E. Software Engineering

National University of Sciences and TechnologySoftware EngineeringGPA 3.842018 – 2022
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