Shahbaz Raza

About Me

I’m a Senior Backend & DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience architecting production systems — from Python APIs and microservices to the Kubernetes clusters and CI/CD pipelines that run them.

My career has taken me from Lahore to Paris to working remotely with a US-based team at Motive, where I’ve led monolith-to-microservices migrations, implemented Pub/Sub event-driven systems, and built deployment automation that reduced release time by 25% while increasing test coverage by 40%.

I’m equally comfortable designing REST and GraphQL APIs as I am wiring up Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and AWS infrastructure — the full path from code to production.

Current Role

Software Engineer @ Motive (2022 – Present · Remote, USA)

Motive builds fleet management and operations software used by tens of thousands of businesses. My work spans backend scalability — microservices architecture, Pub/Sub patterns, and automated testing — plus DevOps ownership of deployment pipelines, Kubernetes workloads, and infrastructure automation on AWS.

Previous Experience

Backend Developer @ Ibisdev (2020 – 2022 · Paris, France, Remote)

Built 30+ automated web crawlers that extracted and normalized 50K+ property listings from across the web. Designed and deployed 4 independent microservices with significant infrastructure cost reductions through efficient resource utilization.

Junior Developer @ Blueeast (2019 – 2020 · Lahore, Pakistan)

First professional role — built backend APIs and automation tooling. Concurrent with completing my B.Sc. in Computer Science from NUCES, Lahore.

Featured Projects

Sidekick — Multi-tenant AI assistant platform with RAG capabilities on Django + AWS. Each tenant configures custom LLM-powered chat agents.

Bugatti Baby — E-commerce platform for luxury baby products (bugattibaby.com). Django REST API with payment integration and inventory management.

Wabi2b — B2B marketplace (wabi2b.com) with FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes.

Morphood — AI recipe platform (recipes.morphood.com) with voice-guided cooking assistant on AWS Lambda.

Ferrari Baby / Bentley JNR — Luxury automotive configurators with real-time 3D visualization and pricing engines.

Personal portfolio: shahbazraza.vercel.app