Ruzaik Nazeer

5+ yrs building & automating Moncton, NB · Canada Open to new roles

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Backend and automation-focused full stack developer with 5+ years shipping production SaaS platforms — Python, PHP/Laravel, automation tooling, and applied AI/LLM integration are the focus, with React used when a project needs a frontend.

Experience

Iconblocks, New York — Senior Software Engineer (Contract, remote from Canada), 06/2025–06/2026, and Senior Software Engineer (hybrid from Sri Lanka), 2019–2023. Built WorkPortal, a multi-tenant SaaS platform for 200+ franchise locations: scheduling, payroll, onboarding, and real-time analytics, on PHP/Laravel and Python/Django APIs and a PostgreSQL sales-analytics pipeline ingesting from 1,000+ stores a minute. Mentored two junior developers through code reviews and pair programming during the first stint.

ONroute, Dutton, ON — Operations Team Member (part-time), 12/2023–04/2025, held alongside full-time postgraduate study.

Projects

AI Event Planner — Laravel + React, OpenAI integration, generates event plans, venues, menus, and budgets.
RAG policy assistant — answers questions from PDF insurance policies using only retrieved, cited passages.
Recover Smart — Django REST Framework backend for post-surgery recovery tracking, with a React/Next.js admin frontend.
Facial recognition attendance system — Python + React, deployed across 300+ devices.
Redis token-bucket rate limiter — Python, hexagonal architecture, FastAPI and Flask adapters.

Stack

Python PHP Laravel MySQL PostgreSQL Docker Jenkins AWS Azure React

Automation and AI: n8n, Zapier, and Make for workflow automation; OpenAI and Claude API integration, including day-to-day use of GitHub Copilot and Claude for development. Also uses: TypeScript, MongoDB, Next.js, Firebase, Bash/Linux, and AWS Lambda. Practice: query optimization and schema design, clean architecture, unit testing, Agile/Scrum/Kanban. Certified: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals.

Education

Postgraduate Diploma, Business & Information Systems Architecture — Fanshawe College (April 2025). BEng (Hons) Software Engineering — London Metropolitan University (September 2019). BTEC HND in IT — Pearson UK (Dec 2018).

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