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Software & the web
Full-stack applications, custom back ends and WordPress development. Experience ranges from web services and content systems to plugin features, bug fixes and theme integrations.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER & MAKER
Waqas
Hasan.
A systems mind.
A maker’s instinct.
Software engineer. AI solutions analyst. Lifelong maker.
I turn complex ideas into things that work.
THE ENGINEER’S MINDSET01 / WH
IDEA → SYSTEM → REALITY
Think.
Build.
Refine.
Code. Circuits. Craft.
BUILDING WITH CURIOSITY SINCE 1997A little about me
01 / ABOUT
Experience meets
curiosity.
The whole system.
And every little detail.
I’m Waqas, a software engineer with a career that began in 1997. I’ve built web applications, worked on telecom and billing platforms, connected healthcare systems, developed financial software and led development teams. Each has given me another way to understand a problem.
My work has taken me through the full life of software: designing it, building it, testing it and helping people use it. Today, I bring that perspective to AI solutions analysis — studying interactions, improving knowledge bases and supporting new AI initiatives.
I’m interested in what happens between an idea and a dependable system: the decisions, the edge cases, and the details that make it useful to someone.
Since 1997Building across generations of technology
End to endDevelopment, quality, support & delivery
Always learningFrom software systems to physical craft
02 / EXPERTISE
Built on solid foundations.
Deep technical roots.
A practical approach to building.
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Systems & data
Following the data as carefully as the interface. System analysis, relational databases, migrations and client/server applications, with a grounding in data structures and security.
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AI & software quality
Analyzing where AI interactions can improve and refining the knowledge behind them. Informed by years of manual testing, automated test maintenance and technical product support.
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Projects & people
Bringing technical work and delivery together. Experience managing designers and developers, leading core product teams and planning work around scope, cost and risk.
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Connected services
Software that connects to a wider world: telecom services, billing, healthcare data exchange and financial workflows. Building interfaces between systems with different responsibilities.
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Infrastructure & hardware
A foundation beneath the application: server and network administration, computer hardware troubleshooting and electronics. Practical experience with both software and the systems it runs on.
03 / EXPERIENCE
Different challenges.
A broader perspective.
A career built by doing.
And looking deeper.
From early web platforms to AI-powered services, my work has crossed industries and disciplines. These are the chapters that shape how I build today.
- 2025 — PRESENT
Making AI more useful
Analyzing AI interactions to identify improvements, updating the knowledge bases behind responses and supporting the rollout of new AI initiatives. Bringing a developer’s understanding and a tester’s attention to detail to an evolving field.
AI solutions analysis - 2017 — 2025
Understanding software in use
Moving from development into product quality and technical support. Manually testing features, writing and maintaining automated tests, then helping users work through problems in real installations.
Product testing · Test automation · Technical support - 2010 — 2017
Building for the web
Independent and product-focused development across custom PHP applications and WordPress projects. Work included web services, core plugin development, new features, bug fixes and theme integration plugins.
Full-stack development · Plugin engineering - 2004 — 2010
Connecting complex domains
Building telecom and interactive voice-response services, healthcare integrations based on HL7 data-exchange standards, and software for currency exchange and remittance workflows. Alongside development, leading teams and managing product delivery and operations.
Senior engineering · Team leadership · Project management - 1997 — 2004
Learning the whole stack
Starting with web development, search and online trade platforms, then working on billing, connectivity and database migrations. System administration and an honorary lectureship added hands-on infrastructure experience, including a campus network of more than 110 computers.
Web development · Systems administration · Core applications
EXPERIENCE IN CONTEXT
Real systems.
Real-world constraints.
A few kinds of problems I’ve worked on — each with its own moving parts.
Telecom & billing
Core billing applications, mobile value-added services, telephony and voice-response solutions, alongside connectivity and database migration work.
Healthcare data
APIs and content systems that connected participants across a health network, translating HL7 requirements into working software.
Financial workflows
A client/server currency-exchange application for a network of dozens of exchanges, plus leadership of core development for a remittance network.
04 / QUALIFICATIONS
Practical experience.
Structured learning.
Keep building.
Keep learning.
Formal study and professional certifications complement the lessons learned on real projects — across delivery, software, databases and electronics.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT SPECIALIZATION
From a clear brief
to a well-run project.
Completed a specialization covering project foundations, initiation, planning, execution, agile project management and an applied capstone.
Software & computing5 qualifications
- Web programming certification
- Software programming certification
- C/C++ certificate
- Computer sciences certificate
- Computer sciences diploma
Data & digital business2 qualifications
- Database development diploma
- E-commerce concepts analysis certification
Systems & electronics3 qualifications
- Network operating-system administration certification
- Desktop operating-system certificate
- Computer hardware & electronics engineering diploma
05 / BEYOND CODE
Same curiosity.
Different materials.
A builder, even
away from the keyboard.
01CRAFT
In the workshop
Woodworking takes me from furniture design and planning to making something tangible. It’s another way to think about structure, solve problems and work carefully with the material in front of me.
A good fit, a sound joint, a considered finish — small decisions add up, just as they do in software.
02IOT
From code to circuits
My electronics background feeds a continuing interest in IoT: microcontrollers, single-board computers, MicroPython and PCB design. I enjoy the point where code starts doing something in the physical world.
Learning, experimenting and making things by hand keep that early curiosity alive.
GOOD THINGS START WITH A CONVERSATION
Let’s build
something useful.
A new application, a system that needs a fresh look,
or a question about where AI can help.
Let’s start with the problem you want to solve.