01   Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ahmad Rumi

I build production systems end to end — I write the code, and I lead the teams that ship them.

Senior Software Engineer · Engineering Lead

02   The trajectory

What was running at the same time.

One continuous full-time job since 2020, and everything that ran beside it — a studio, a nonprofit, a contract, a former employer kept on part-time. The dates overlap because the work did.

  • FULL-TIME
  • PART-TIME
  • CONTRACT
  1. Jan 2025Present · FULL-TIME

    Senior Software Developer

    Polymath / Paceline

    A research-led insurance analytics company, and its sister consumer health-and-wellness platform.

    • Lead backend and frontend development across both products; own infrastructure, release planning and deployments.
    • Shipped a body of internal tooling supporting the company’s research output.
    • Build LLM tooling on OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini models — RAG pipelines and agentic automations for research and analytics workflows.
    • Run code review, mentor engineers, and resolve escalated technical problems.
  2. Nov 2024Present · PART-TIME

    Founder & Technical Lead

    Rumination Labs

    A deep-tech software studio building and sustaining full-stack products for clients in e-commerce, education, health and gaming. Founded while still full-time at BlueMeg.

    • Built and manage the team; own client contracts end to end — scoping, pricing, delivery and the client relationship.
    • Advisory and consulting alongside delivery: architecture review, technical due diligence, and long-run maintenance of systems past launch.
    • Still hands-on rather than purely managerial — sole engineer on the SupaTags platform.
  3. Jun 2023Oct 2023 · CONTRACT

    Lead Engineer & Architect

    RadicalX

    An AI tech-tutor and career-coach platform.

    • Architected the platform and built the backend — gamified courses, tailored guidance, group projects.
    • Led the development team through the contract.
  4. Nov 2022Dec 2024 · FULL-TIME

    Senior Full-Stack Developer

    BlueMeg

    BlueMeg calls itself an operating system for corporate data: entity-management SaaS for company secretaries, corporate groups and enterprise legal teams who administer thousands of companies across jurisdictions. It covers 20+ legal entity types with users in 70+ countries, across four modules — Console, Accelerate, Connect and Execute.

    • Built the front end of Console, the module customers actually work in — client portals, document library, registers, organisational charts and reporting over entity data.
    • Developed the platform APIs behind it, and owned the logs and audit-trail module. In entity management the record of who changed what, and when, is the compliance artefact rather than a debugging aid.
    • Redesigned parts of the public bluemeg.com site alongside the platform work.
    • Worked directly with product and engineering teams in Singapore, Hong Kong and Canada — three offices, three time zones, one codebase.
  5. Nov 2022Jan 2025 · PART-TIME

    Advocate Developer

    Atompoint

    The same company, continued part-time for another two years once BlueMeg became the full-time role.

    • Authored the technical SOPs used across delivery teams; led code reviews and audits, mentored developers, and unblocked teams on escalated problems.
  6. Sep 2020Oct 2024 · PART-TIME

    Full-Stack Developer

    Taskeen Health Initiative

    A Pakistani mental-health and wellbeing nonprofit. Four years as its engineering lead — which is why, when the studio came back in 2025, it won four concurrent contracts.

    • Led all engineering: an AppSheet operations dashboard, a Next.js/Firebase web chatbot with an admin console, and a Turn.io WhatsApp chatbot.
    • The web chatbot’s predecessor reached over 14,000 people, 90% of them young.
  7. Jul 2020Oct 2022 · FULL-TIME

    Platform Engineering Lead

    Atompoint

    A software delivery company, and the start of the record — two full-time roles across two and a half years, up to the move to BlueMeg.

    • Platform Engineering Lead

      May 2022Oct 2022 · FULL-TIME

      Ran multiple platform projects and their teams while contributing as a senior developer.

    • Full-Stack Developer

      Jul 2020May 2022 · FULL-TIME

      Delivered React, React Native, Firebase, AppSheet, WordPress and Magento projects; scoped requirements directly with clients in a fully remote, self-directed environment.

03   Selected work

Systems that took real money, real data, real users.

Everything else, in full

04   Capabilities

What I reach for, roughly in the order I reach for it.

Languages
TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonSQLCC++
Frontend
ReactReact NativeNext.jsElectronPWA
Backend
Node.jsExpressNext.js API routesFirebase Cloud Functions
Data
PostgreSQLSupabaseFirestoreMongoDBRow-Level Security
AI / ML
OpenAIAnthropicGeminiRAG pipelinesAgentic toolingOn-device ONNX inference
Cloud & DevOps
AWSGCPFirebaseVercelCI/CD
Integrations
StripeGoCardlessRoyal Mail Pro Shipping v4Turn.io / WhatsAppResend
Design
FigmaPhotoshopPremiere ProAfter Effects

05   About

Three countries, two captaincies, one habit.

I grew up across three very different places — Sydney, Port Moresby, and Lahore — and now work from Kuala Lumpur. Moving that often teaches you that the world is defined by people rather than places, and that you can be useful anywhere if you learn how the room actually works.

Basketball was the constant. I captained two teams, at school and at university, which is where I learned that steady leadership turns talent into results far more reliably than talent alone does.

The engineering follows from the same instinct: understand the system, then build the version that lasts.

Ahmad Rumi

Education

  • BS Computer Science

    Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

    20162020 · Lahore, Pakistan

  • A Levels

    Beaconhouse School System

    20132015 · Lahore, Pakistan

    Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Chemistry

  • O Levels

    Beaconhouse School System

    20102013 · Lahore, Pakistan

  • High School

    Port Moresby International High School

    20092010 · Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

  • High School

    Homebush Boys High School

    20082009 · Sydney, Australia

Basketball

  • Captain, LUMS Basketball Team (2019–2020); squad member 2016–2020
  • Captain, Beaconhouse Defence Campus Basketball, A Levels (2014–2015)
  • Selected to represent Beaconhouse Central Region, Interregional Basketball Tournament 2013
  • 1st place, Beaconhouse Interregional Basketball Tournament 2013

Media & arts

  • Media and Arts Head, O Levels (2011–2012)
  • Produced a television advertisement for “BDC Battle of the Bands”, aired on Wateen Cable
  • Management team, Beaconhouse Defence Campus “Scientia” 2013

Which is where the After Effects on the skills list comes from.

Languages

English · Urdu · Hindi

06   Contact

Open to senior engineering and technical leadership.

Remote (global), open to on-site for the right role. Currently in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, working across time zones by habit rather than by exception.

+60 17 341 8910 · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia