Available for freelance & contract · Vancouver, BC

ErumAbdul Latif

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Full-Stack Software Engineer

I engineer production software across the full stack — real-time distributed systems, secure backends, cloud infrastructure, and applied machine learning.

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PYTHON·REACT / NODE·KAFKA·GCP / AZURE
01About

Engineering, cloud, and growth — from one desk.

I'm a senior full-stack software engineer who ships production systems end to end — spanning web development, distributed systems, cybersecurity, cloud platforms, and machine learning.

My work runs from a real-time facial-recognition platform that stayed in production after the internship that built it, to a Kafka-driven messaging system engineered on an event-driven architecture, to live cloud workloads on Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure — including a production Azure-to-GCP migration. I design for architecture, scalability, and maintainability first, then ship.

That engineering practice is anchored by a Master's in Computer Security & Forensic Administration from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Bachelor's in Computer Science from FAST NUCES — the security and systems foundation behind the work.

Beyond the stack, I stay ahead of UI/UX and design trends. I adopt emerging interface patterns early — including the glassmorphism Apple only recently folded into its own OS design language. This site is that instinct made literal, not merely described.

Full-Stack EngineeringDistributed SystemsCloud · GCP + AzureSecurity · MASc
Erum Abdul Latif at her Fairleigh Dickinson University Vancouver graduation

Erum Abdul Latif

MASc · FDU Vancouver · Class of 2025

On the glass

Liquid-glass framing — layered depth and specular light, content read through the surface. Deliberate, not a template default.

02Experience

A journey, not a résumé dump.

Scroll the path. Each stop lights up as you reach it — role, place, dates, and the work that mattered.

ConsultingNov 2023 — Jan 2024 · Burnaby, BC

Software Consultant

InsureOne

  • Managed and optimized the company's full web presence.
  • Designed internal software to streamline workflows, and delivered technical support and reliability fixes.
WebInternal ToolsReliability
Cloud EngineeringSep 2022 — Jul 2023 · Karachi, PK

Associate Consultant (MTO)

Systems Limited

  • Led the migration of PartnerLinq, a live platform, from Azure to Google Cloud — using Cloud Functions and App Engine to improve scalability and cut cost.
  • Built multi-cloud solutions in C# and .NET with cross-functional teams.
GCPAzureC# / .NETMigration
EngineeringJun 2022 — Sep 2022 · Karachi, PK

Software Engineering Intern

Pumpjack Dataworks

  • Built a real-time facial-recognition attendance system, adopted internally beyond the internship term.
  • Designed, developed and tested systems against user requirements, with flowcharts and technical documentation.
PythonPostgreSQLFull-Stack
Web + SEOJul 2021 — Oct 2021 · Karachi, PK

WordPress Developer Intern

TechBits Solutions

  • Developed and customized client WordPress sites.
  • Improved on-page SEO and supported day-to-day web development requests.
WordPressSEOClient Work
LeadershipStudent Leadership · Karachi, PK

President, WebMasters Society

FAST NUCES

  • Led a 75-member team and oversaw the university's official website.
  • Spearheaded a hackathon (sponsorships and logistics) and organized technical workshops.
LeadershipCommunityEvents
03Capabilities

A stack that spans build to growth.

Eight orbits — languages, frontend, backend, databases, cloud, streaming, tooling, and growth. Hover a group to pull it forward.

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Projects built across client, freelance & academic work

shipped end to end

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Languages across the stack

Python · JS · C/C++ · C# · PHP · Dart

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Engineering domains

web · distributed · security · cloud · ML

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Professional certifications

security · ML · web

04Selected Work

Production software, end to end.

Client, freelance, internship and academic builds — each one shipped, architected for scale, and framed by what it actually proves.

Internship DeliverableComputer Vision · Full-Stack
Jun — Sep 2022

Face Recognition Attendance System

Pumpjack Dataworks

Designed and delivered a real-time facial-recognition attendance platform that the company kept in production after the internship ended.

  • Engineered a Python facial-recognition pipeline for live check-in, wired into role-based admin and employee dashboards.
  • Built the full internal application — employee directory, profile management, attendance tracking and authentication — on PostgreSQL and PHP.
  • Shipped as a production-ready internal business system, not a throwaway exercise — it outlived the internship in real use.
PythonPostgreSQLPHPJavaScriptHTML/CSS
Freelance ProjectDistributed Systems · Event-Driven
2023 — 2026

Real-Time Chat Application

Freelance engagement

Engineered a real-time messaging platform on an event-driven architecture, using Kafka to decouple producers and consumers for scalable, asynchronous delivery.

  • Architected the backend around Apache Kafka event streaming so messaging stays responsive under load and scales horizontally.
  • Built a React frontend against a Node.js backend, with a query builder for flexible, maintainable data access.
  • Designed for asynchronous communication end to end — a distributed system, not a single-server chat app.
Apache KafkaReactNode.jsEvent-Driven Architecture
Academic ProjectFull-Stack · Payments
Laravel · MVC

Stadium Management System

End-to-end ticketing platform

Built an end-to-end stadium ticketing platform — public booking portal, admin console and integrated payments — on a normalized nine-entity data model.

  • Developed the full MVC stack in Laravel 5.7 / PHP 7.4 with Eloquent ORM over a 9-entity relational MySQL schema.
  • Integrated Authorize.Net for a complete payment workflow, with a Voyager admin dashboard for operations.
  • Delivered the frontend in Vue, Bootstrap, jQuery and Laravel Mix through an iterative SDLC.
Laravel 5.7PHP 7.4MySQLVueAuthorize.NetBootstrap
Academic ProjectSystems · Parallel Computing
OpenMP

Parallel Sudoku Solver

High-performance systems

Built a high-performance parallel Sudoku solver in OpenMP, combining multithreaded depth-first search with constraint-propagation heuristics and a bitmask state representation.

  • Parallelized a depth-first search with OpenMP and static round-robin scheduling across threads.
  • Implemented elimination, Lone Ranger and Twins heuristics over a bitmask state representation for fast constraint propagation.
  • A performance-oriented systems-programming project built for measurable speedup.
OpenMPMultithreadingDFSBitmasking
Academic ProjectMachine Learning
KNN · K-Means

Applied Machine Learning

Supervised & unsupervised

Developed applied machine-learning projects spanning both supervised and unsupervised methods — from age prediction to image compression.

  • Built a K-Nearest-Neighbors model to predict abalone age from physical measurements.
  • Implemented K-Means clustering to compress image color palettes into representative centroids.
  • Demonstrates hands-on work across the supervised and unsupervised spectrum.
PythonKNNK-Means Clustering
Academic ProjectCybersecurity · Networking
Secure Tunneling

VPN Application

Applied network security

Implemented a VPN application delivering secure encrypted tunneling, IP masking and traffic rerouting — applied security grounded in a digital-forensics background.

  • Engineered secure encrypted tunneling to protect traffic in transit.
  • Implemented IP masking and traffic rerouting to anonymize and redirect client connections.
  • Extends my Master's focus in Computer Security & Forensic Administration into working software.
Encrypted TunnelingIP MaskingNetwork Security
Academic ProjectWorkflow · Collaboration
Role-Based

Project Evaluator

Collaboration platform

Designed a collaborative project-management platform that automates task assignment, team coordination and client reporting across three distinct user roles.

  • Architected role-based workflows for Project Managers, Employees and Project Buyers over shared project data.
  • Implemented task assignment, progress tracking and client reporting to keep delivery transparent from team to buyer.
  • Built around workflow automation and transparency, not a static task list.
Role-Based AccessTask ManagementClient Reporting
Freelance ProjectReal-Time Data
Next.js · XAUUSD

Live Gold-Market Dashboard

Self-directed build

Built a Next.js dashboard that streams live gold-market (XAUUSD) data into real-time candlestick charts straight from the OANDA API.

  • Integrated the OANDA market-data API to stream real-time XAUUSD candlesticks.
  • Engineered the Next.js / TypeScript frontend for low-latency chart updates.
Next.jsTypeScriptOANDA API
Client WorkGrowth · Web
Ontario, CA

Juicy Birds — Nashville Hot Chicken

11 Ontario locations

Led digital marketing and delivered a full website rebuild for an 11-location restaurant brand across Ontario.

  • Owned Google Ads, local SEO and review response across all 11 locations.
  • Designed and delivered a brand-accurate website rebuild in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Google AdsLocal SEOHTML/CSS/JS
Client WorkWeb · Paid Acquisition
Vancouver, BC

Ageless Head Spa

Vancouver wellness studio

Built a wellness studio's entire online presence from scratch — website, booking flow and paid acquisition.

  • Developed the WordPress site and booking flow end to end.
  • Configured Google Ads targeting that delivered the studio's first paying clients.
WordPressGoogle Ads
05Credentials

Studied deep, certified wide.

Two degrees anchoring the theory; a stack of focused certifications keeping the practice current.

3.77

Master of Administrative Sciences

GPA / 4.0

Computer Security & Forensic Administration

Fairleigh Dickinson University · Vancouver, BC

Sep 2023 — Apr 2025
3.2

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

CGPA / 4.0

FAST School of Computing

FAST National University (NUCES) · Karachi, PK

2018 — 2022
Certifications
SecurityMachine LearningProgrammingWeb

CyberOps Associate

Cisco Networking Academy

Security

Supervised Learning with scikit-learn

DataCamp

Machine Learning

Python Data Structures

University of Michigan

Programming

Programming for Everybody — Python

University of Michigan

Programming

Responsive Website Basics: HTML, CSS & JS

University of London

Web

Build a Website Using WordPress

Coursera Project Network

Web

CyberOps Associate

Cisco Networking Academy

Security

Supervised Learning with scikit-learn

DataCamp

Machine Learning

Python Data Structures

University of Michigan

Programming

Programming for Everybody — Python

University of Michigan

Programming

Responsive Website Basics: HTML, CSS & JS

University of London

Web

Build a Website Using WordPress

Coursera Project Network

Web

Build a Website Using WordPress

Coursera Project Network

Web

Responsive Website Basics: HTML, CSS & JS

University of London

Web

Programming for Everybody — Python

University of Michigan

Programming

Python Data Structures

University of Michigan

Programming

Supervised Learning with scikit-learn

DataCamp

Machine Learning

CyberOps Associate

Cisco Networking Academy

Security

Build a Website Using WordPress

Coursera Project Network

Web

Responsive Website Basics: HTML, CSS & JS

University of London

Web

Programming for Everybody — Python

University of Michigan

Programming

Python Data Structures

University of Michigan

Programming

Supervised Learning with scikit-learn

DataCamp

Machine Learning

CyberOps Associate

Cisco Networking Academy

Security
06Contact

Have a build, a migration, or a growth problem?

Web apps, cloud infrastructure, or getting found on Google — tell me what you're working toward and I'll tell you how I'd approach it.

Based in

Vancouver, BC

Open to remote

Opens your mail client · or write info@itserumali.com directly