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Raafay Saeed Kazmi

Backend Engineer | Building Legal AI & Fintech Infrastructure | Robotics & Control Enthusiast

Based in: PakistanMost recently: Associate Software Engineer, CarbonteqExperience: 3 years

Backend-focused engineer with a track record of shipping V1 products and scaling complex integrations. At Carbonteq, I spearheaded legal AI workflows for Dyspute.ai and optimized crowdfunding systems for Honeycomb Credit. With a foundation in Electrical Engineering from LUMS, I bridge the gap between high-level software architecture and low-level autonomous systems.

Experience

Associate Software Engineer

CarbonteqworkJun 2025 – Aug 2026

Summary

Selected through Carbonteq’s Talent Transformation Program, an initiative designed to transition non-CS graduates into professional software engineering roles. Worked as an Associate Software Engineer on client projects using TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, and modern web development infrastructure, with experience spanning backend development, integrations, frontend work, production support, and deployments.

What I did

Dyspute.ai | September 2025 – December 2025: Spearheaded backend development for a legal AI product, building complex AI workflows that enabled users to generate demand letters and settlement agreements through conversational interfaces, as well as resolve disputes using AI-assisted mediation and recommendations.
Built and deployed the backend using Convex, while also supporting frontend deployments through Vercel, GitHub repository management, and general deployment workflows.
Honeycomb Credit | January 2026 – August 2026: Worked as part of a four-person development team on an investment crowdfunding platform, contributing across both frontend and backend systems.
Worked on key third-party integrations including LoanPro, Stripe, Dwolla, and Mailgun, covering loan servicing, payments, settlements, webhooks, and templated communications.
Resolved live production issues, implemented product and design changes, and migrated API functionality from legacy systems to newer infrastructure.
Contributed to the development of an AI-assisted development harness designed to streamline development protocols and engineering workflows.
Gained hands-on experience with deployment workflows, environment configuration, repository management, and production systems.

Results

Spearheaded backend for Dyspute.ai, building complex AI workflows for legal demand letters and mediation.
Contributed to Honeycomb Credit, integrating LoanPro, Stripe, and Dwolla for loan servicing and payments.
Developed an AI-assisted development harness that increased team output and structured engineering workflows.
Contributed to an investment crowdfunding platform supporting an estimated user base of high hundreds to early thousands of investors.
Increased development velocity by 20-30% through an internal AI-assisted development harness that structured engineering workflows.

TypeScriptJavaScriptNode.jsConvexVercelGitHubLoanProStripeDwollaMailgun

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

LUMSPakistanpart timeSep 2023 – May 2025

Key Responsibilities: • EE 361-Feedback Control Systems: Conducted quizzes, tutorials, and assessments for over 50 students, providing valuable feedback to facilitate and solidify their learning of the fundamental concepts of feedback control in dynamic systems • EE 380-Communication Systems: Conducted quizzes, tutorials, assessments, as well as weekly lab sessions for over 50 students, providing valuable feedback for students to facilitate and solidify their learning in fundamental concepts of communication systems, methods, and protocols • EE 324-Microcontrollers and Interfacing: Conducted quizzes, tutorials, assessments, as well as weekly lab sessions for over 50 students, providing valuable feedback for students to facilitate and solidify their learning in fundamental concepts of how to use microcontrollers for a variety of tasks • MATH 230-Probability: Conducted quizzes, tutorials, and assessments for over 40 students, providing valuable feedback for students to facilitate and solidify their learning in fundamental concepts of probability • EE 203-Engineering Models: Conducted quizzes, tutorials, and assessments for over 60 students, providing valuable feedback for students to facilitate and solidify their concepts in modeling using differential equations

Feedback Control SystemsCommunication SystemsMicrocontrollersProbabilityDifferential Equations