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Mohammad Sami Shaikh — Career Map V.2026
Node 00 / IdentityMO” — Product & Platform EngineerEST. 2020

MOHAMMAD
SAMI
SHAIKH

Early-stage startups are my habitat. I take ambiguous product ideas and own them end to end — architecture, cloud, AI systems, security, product — from zero to production.

4 platforms architected 0→12 products built from scratch6 years building
Platform ArchitectureBackend EngineeringGoogle CloudAI SystemsEnterprise SaaSSecurityProduct Engineering
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Node 01 / Philosophy

Build products around users — not technology.

Paragraph-based AI agents that mirror how financial investigators actually write reports.
Distribution software that fits existing operations instead of forcing new processes.
Secure-by-default infrastructure and architectures built for the long term.
How I operate in a startup
Ship 0→1 with teams of two, not twenty
Sit with founders on product, not just tickets
Own production — deploys, rollbacks, 2am incidents
Node 02 / System S.01

Nimble

2024 — RegTech · 4-person team
Platform Engineer · Technical Lead

AI-powered enterprise SaaS for financial institutions: investigators generate Suspicious Activity Reports with RAG-assisted document generation instead of compiling them by hand. Multi-tenant, built for strict data isolation — joined at the earliest stage and designed the technical foundation.

Key decision — workflow-first AIBroke report generation into structured Process Instructions per reasoning stage — matching how investigators actually think, not one giant prompt.
Node.jsExpressGCPCloud RunOpenAIRAGFirebase Auth
Owned
Platform, backend & cloud architecture on GCP
AI document generation — RAG, LangChain → LlamaIndex
Multi-layer authentication & enterprise security
CI/CD pipelines, deployments, production ops
Engineering standards from day zero
Product strategy & technical direction with founders
Node 03 / System S.02

Cogn8tive

2025 — Now · Enterprise SaaS
Lead Engineer

Enterprise SaaS platform for wholesale distributors — AI-assisted workflows and enterprise data synchronization integrating with legacy ERP platforms. Leading engineering across the full surface.

Key decision — MongoDB migrationComplex wholesale order lifecycles outgrew relational schemas — led the migration from PostgreSQL/Hasura to MongoDB.
Node.jsMongoDBGraphQLGCPReactFlutter
Owned
Backend, frontend, mobile, cloud & security architecture
Enterprise data synchronization with legacy ERPs
Production deployments & cloud infrastructure
AI-assisted workflow design
Node 04 / System S.03

Careem

2025 — Internal Tooling
Frontend Engineer

Frontend architecture for an internal AI Workflow Builder — the reusable foundation other engineers build on: authentication, RBAC, routing, and the design system.

Owned
Reusable frontend architecture
Authentication, RBAC & routing
Design system
ReactTypeScriptNext.js
Node 05 / System S.04

SRZK Solutions

2022 — First production floor
Full-Stack Developer Intern

Enterprise web applications in an Agile team — Angular frontends, Express.js services, PostgreSQL, Docker. Sprint planning, code reviews, production debugging: where the discipline started.

AngularExpressPostgreSQLDockerAgile
Node 06 / Zero to one

Products built from scratch

CliqIt
Live
Architecture · Backend · Frontend · Infra — 2023

Two-sided marketplace connecting brands and influencers for barter collaborations. Owned the entire platform: architecture, backend, frontend, infrastructure, auth, deployments.

500
Registered users
50+
Active influencers
20
Brands onboarded
Mira
In development
Platform · AI Architecture · Cloud — 2026

An AI-powered operating system for Instagram creators, brands and agencies — automation, opportunity management, creator CRM and AI assistants in one platform. AI-native workflows, not bolted-on features.

AI workflowsMCP integrationsAutomationGCP
Node 07 / Projects & proof

Built along the way

Independent projects — 2023
Bakery ERP
Operations software for a real bakery business
WeCare
Full-stack care platform
Astrum
End-to-end product build
T-Kart
E-commerce platform
Multiple national hackathon wins — production-quality prototypes on deadline
On record
Architected multiple enterprise SaaS platforms from inception to production
Designed AI document generation systems for regulatory workflows
Built secure GCP infrastructure for production enterprise applications
Launched an influencer marketplace used by hundreds of creators and brands
Designed enterprise data sync integrating with legacy ERP platforms
Set engineering standards, architecture patterns and deployment processes across products
Node 08 / End of map

Let's build.

mohammadsami@duck.com
LinkedIn ↗GitHub ↗
Open to senior platform roles — 2026
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