Wahaj Ali

Co-founding and building "AI FTE," an agentic order-processing and fulfillment system for e-commerce businesses, architected with Python, FastAPI, LangChain, and LangGraph.

• ▸Designed agent tools for autonomous inventory checks and fulfillment status updates, removing the need for manual dashboard monitoring.
• ▸Built a multi-tenant backend with encrypted, per-tenant credential storage supporting isolated client environments on a single deployment.
• ▸Implemented role-based access control (superadmin, tenant/admin, vendor/category manager) across four middleware layers with a dedicated permission module.
• ▸Architected cookie-based JWT authentication (15-minute access / 7-day refresh tokens) with OTP login across all roles.
• ▸Defined go-to-market and ICP strategy for e-commerce sellers running custom-built stores, positioning the product against the cost of a human operations hire.

Build and maintain scalable, modular full-stack web applications within a service-based production team, owning features end to end from API design to UI implementation.

• ▸Develop class-based backend services using Node.js, Express.js, and Sequelize ORM, applying engineering best practices for performance and scalability.
• ▸Validate application performance and scalability ahead of client-facing releases.

Built and maintained full-stack features using Next.js, Node.js, and Express.js as part of an early-stage startup engineering team.

• ▸Worked directly with founders, taking full ownership of features from scoping through delivery.
• ▸Operated in a fast-moving early-stage environment with direct accountability to leadership.

Built and optimized multi-tenant SaaS applications using Next.js, Redux Toolkit, and React Native, with exposure to backend systems.

• ▸Gained hands-on exposure to backend systems including Node.js, Express, and PostgreSQL while primarily owning the frontend.
• ▸Contributed to production deployments across multiple client projects within a structured agency workflow.