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Muhammad
Waseem Asghar

Technical Architect / Consultant
.NET & Azure Architect
Scalable Systems

A dynamic professional with 17 years of experience analyzing, designing, and delivering reliable, high-performance software in agile environments — with deep expertise across the .NET ecosystem, modern frontends, microservices, and Azure cloud.

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Muhammad Waseem Asghar
17
Years of Experience
Fortune 500
Enterprise Delivery
20
Engineers Led
MCS
Master's Degree
Profile

A dynamic technology leader
building systems that scale.

A dynamic professional with 17 years of experience in analyzing, designing, and developing in an agile environment. I have expertise in ASP.Net & ASP.Net Core using C#, VB.Net, MVC, Web Forms, SOAP/REST APIs, Entity Framework, Angular, Next.js and SQL Server.

I work fluently with modern architectural patterns including microservices, alongside Azure cloud-oriented solutions — with a proven track record of leading technical teams and optimizing application and database performance for demanding production workloads.

Career Highlights

Impact at scale.

1M–10M+ Scale

  • Architected Fortune 500 e-commerce, multi-tenant SaaS ERP, and government tax platforms at 99.9%+ uptime.

7–10 System API Ecosystem

  • CommerceHub, Deposco WMS, RingCentral, SFCC, and internal admin — wired together with Service Bus, idempotency, and Redis caching.

10–50x Performance Gains

  • Delivered through query optimization, schema redesign, caching, and async messaging — also reducing Azure infrastructure costs.

Engineering Leadership

  • Led teams of 20, owned hiring loops, ran structured mentorship, and presented strategy to C-level. Awarded Employee of the Year.
Strengths

How I work.

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System Architecture & Design

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Performance Optimization

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Technical Problem-Solving

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Cross-Functional Leadership

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Mentorship & Team Building

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Stakeholder Communication

Skills

Core skills & tools.

Architecture

API Ecosystem Design Microservices Multi-tenant SaaS Monolith → Services

AI Assisted Development

Claude Antigravity Claude Design Google Stitch

Languages

C# VB.NET TypeScript JavaScript jQuery T-SQL

Web Development

ASP.NET Core Web API Web Forms MVC Entity Framework MS SQL Server Angular 2+ Next.js HTML CSS AJAX

Database

MSSQL MySQL T-SQL Query Optimization Schema Design Indexing

Performance

Redis Caching Async Processing Message Queues Idempotency Patterns

Security

OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect JWT API Rate Limiting API Throttling

Cloud (Azure)

VMs App Services Functions Logic Apps Service Bus Azure SQL

Tooling & Process

VSTS Azure DevOps Git TFVC JIRA Agile Scrum Kanban

Leadership

Technical Strategy C-level Presentations Engineer Mentorship Hiring Loop Ownership
Work Experience

17 years across enterprise,
e-commerce, and cloud.

Upwork
Jan 2026 — Present
  • Technical Architect / Consultant · Remote, USA
  • Architect end-to-end solutions for international clients — system design, technology selection, and delivery.
  • Lead engineering teams and review architecture for scalability, integration safety, and maintainability.
  • Advise on cloud migration, API design, and performance across .NET Core and Azure projects.
  • Integrate AI/LLM tooling (Claude, Copilot) into coding and architecture workflows.
Allivet & Tractor Supply Fortune 500
Jan 2023 — Jan 2026
  • Technical Lead · Jul 2023 — Jan 2026
  • Senior Software Engineer · Jan 2023 — Jun 2023
  • Architected the API layer as the integration hub between SFCC, internal Web Admin, and 5+ external systems, owning contract design and versioning.
  • Introduced Azure Service Bus to decouple synchronous calls into async messaging, improving response times and resilience.
  • Designed Redis caching that cut API latency and reduced Azure SQL load and infrastructure costs.
  • Applied idempotency patterns with deduplication keys for order and payment flows.
  • Built the Autoship subscription engine from scratch — lifecycle, renewals, payment retries, and customer notifications.
  • Integrated CommerceHub, Deposco WMS, and RingCentral for payments, fulfillment, and prescription workflows.
  • Led production incident response on payment, order, and integration failures; presented technical strategy to C-level stakeholders.
10Pearls
Feb 2021 — Jan 2023
  • Principal Software Engineer · Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Architected end-to-end fund management for government tax platforms — collection, batch engines, GUI, and disbursement (C#, MSSQL, SSRS, Azure Service Bus).
  • Built tax filing platform with .NET Core 3.1, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and Angular 10.
  • Reduced query processing time 10–50x via SQL optimization, indexing strategy, and schema refactoring.
  • Defined front-end validation strategy and data migration scripts for legacy onboarding.
BroadPeak Technologies
Mar 2012 — Feb 2021
  • Manager Development · 2017 — 2021
  • Team Lead · 2014 — 2017
  • Senior Software Engineer · 2012 — 2014  ·  Employee of the Year 2016
  • Architected a multi-tenant ERP platform (ASP.NET MVC, Web API, EF, Azure) serving 150+ clients across USA, Canada, and Europe — still in production.
  • Implemented Repository, Unit of Work, Factory, and Singleton patterns as the platform's structural foundation and the team's reference standard.
  • Led engineering teams of up to 20 across concurrent products; defined architecture standards and code review practices.
  • Owned full hiring loops — designed technical interviews, evaluated candidates, and built the engineering bench.
  • Ran structured mentorship for junior and mid-level engineers with planned learning paths and recurring 1:1s.
  • Built training platform with Wowza streaming, mobile audit solution, Marketplace (Amazon Pay, BlueSnap), and Lead Management portal.
Moftak Solutions
Oct 2008 — Mar 2012
  • Software Engineer · Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Built subscription streaming platform for Roku, Google TV, Android, and iOS (C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server).
  • Configured and implemented Wowza Media Server, encoders, and transcoders; integrated PayPal and Authorize.Net.
Certificates

Professional development.

Claude 101

Anthropic · 04/2026

Covers Claude Code, a command-line AI assistant — reading files, executing commands, and modifying code through its tool system, plus context management, custom workflows, hooks, and integration with external services.

Claude Code in Action

Anthropic · 04/2026

Certificate of completion — applied, hands-on use of Claude Code in real development workflows.

Education

Academic background.

Master's in Computer Sciences (MCS)

Islamia University, Bahawalpur · 02/2006 — 05/2008

Master's Degree in Computer Sciences.

Hobbies

Beyond the keyboard.

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Exploring emerging AI tools

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Reading technical articles

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Travelling

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PC gaming