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Haroon Dilshad

Senior Product Engineer 11+ Years Experience Berlin, Germany

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👨‍💻 About Me

Senior Product Engineer with 11+ years of experience building scalable, user-centric software. From leading distributed engineering teams to leveraging agentic AI for rapid product delivery, I combine deep technical expertise with a founder's lens on shipping fast and shipping right.

🚀 Key Strengths

  • Agentic AI Development: AI-powered delivery pipelines, MCP server sandboxing, secure agent workflows
  • Cloud Architecture: Event-driven systems, improved scalability (AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud)
  • Technical Leadership: Cross-functional team management, mentoring, startup co-founding
  • Secure Developer Experience: DevContainers, DevPod, container isolation, supply-chain hardening
  • DevOps & CI/CD: Automated testing, continuous integration/deployment
  • Data Engineering: ETL processes, pipeline development, insights generation
  • Product Thinking: User-centric design, outcome-driven feature prioritization, intuitive interfaces
  • Developer Experience (DX): Streamlined workflows, tooling optimization

💻 Tech Stack

Languages

JavaScript TypeScript Java Python

Backend

NodeJS NestJS Express Django Deno

Frontend

Angular React RxJS Redux Remix

Databases

MongoDB PostgreSQL Redis

Cloud & DevOps

AWS Azure Docker Kubernetes

Testing & Monitoring

Jest Playwright Grafana ELK Stack Kafka

🌟 Experience

Co-Founder & CTO @ DevNinja / OpsNinja, The Hague, Netherlands (Remote)

Nov 2024—Feb 2026

  • Co-founded a dual-brand software consultancy and engineering staffing firm, serving PropTech, FinTech, and AI startups
  • Pioneered an agentic AI-driven development methodology that dramatically compressed delivery timelines
  • Delivered end-to-end product builds for a stealth-mode AI platform in the private equity intelligence space
  • Scaled distributed teams and embedded senior talent at high-growth startups to accelerate go-to-market

Staff Engineer @ HeartbeatMed, Berlin, Germany

Feb 2024—Aug 2024

  • Implemented end-to-end and integration testing strategies, improving overall product quality and reducing bug discovery time
  • Implemented preview environment seeding process, reducing setup time from multiple developer hours to minutes
  • Developed automations for routine tasks, increasing team productivity
  • Architected and implemented spotlight search functionality, improving user experience and search accuracy

Open Source Contributor

2019—Present

  • Contributor to LuLu (12k+ ⭐), the leading open-source macOS firewall
  • Built devpod-provider-oracle-cloud, a DevPod provider for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • Contributor to CloudStream (8.9k+ ⭐), an open-source Android media platform
  • Extended serverless-dns (RethinkDNS), a privacy-first DNS resolver for edge runtimes
  • Developing tauri-etcher, a Tauri-based reimagining of Balena Etcher

Senior Full Stack Developer & Technical Team Lead @ BuildingMinds GmbH, Berlin, Germany

2019—Jan 2024

  • Architected and led development of a no-code-low-code highly scalable "Generic Connector" platform
  • Designed and implemented a CDM-compliant data normalization and transformation pipeline
  • Spearheaded an inner-source initiative, fostering collaboration and code reuse across teams

Software Engineer @ Caya GmbH, Berlin, Germany (Remote)

2017-2018

  • Created and maintained necessary visual and compute components responsible for digitizing physical mail
  • Made digital mail content available to users through intuitive interfaces

Technical Lead @ M-Hospitality, Athens, Greece (Remote)

2019-2019

  • Led a team of designers and developers to create companion applications for top-rated hotels
  • Implemented a system to generate different apps for each hotel from a unified code base

Full-Stack Developer @ AIRE Services LLC, California, USA (Remote)

2016-2017, 2019

  • Built applications to assist users in finding agents for real estate sales
  • Developed a data-ingestion system pulling from dozens of MLS Services across the USA
  • Created a cross-platform mobile application consuming standardized real estate data

Independent Contractor @ Upwork

2015-2019

  • Maintained 100% job success rate throughout career
  • 91% of clients expressed willingness to recommend services
  • 100% of clients indicated desire for future collaboration

📚 Education

SEECS - NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan
BE Software Engineering (2011-2015)

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