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Mehroz Afzal

Chief Executive OfficerStrategic Partnerships ManagerCross-Border Business EnablerPrincipal Software EngineerAI & Mobile Solutions Architect

Chief Executive Officer at CodeMiners IT & Consultancy with 8+ years of experience building and scaling technology-driven businesses and leading cross-border initiatives. I partner directly with founders, CFOs, and operations leaders to enable offshore company setups, SaaS scaling, global payments integration, and compliance-aware product launches across Pakistan, the United States, Singapore, the Middle East, and Europe. I have built and managed long-term relationships with service providers, resellers, and platform partners, negotiating commercial terms and creating repeatable pipelines that drive customer acquisition and recurring revenue. With deep practical understanding of cross-border payments, multi-jurisdiction structures, and international growth, I am passionate about removing friction from global commerce for underserved businesses. I bring strong local market understanding, a trusted professional network across Pakistan's technology and services landscape, and the ability to engage confidently with C-level stakeholders.

Mehroz Afzal

About Me

Chief Executive Officer at CodeMiners IT & Consultancy with 8+ years of experience building and scaling technology-driven businesses and leading cross-border initiatives. I partner directly with founders, CFOs, and operations leaders to enable offshore company setups, SaaS scaling, global payments integration, and compliance-aware product launches across Pakistan, the United States, Singapore, the Middle East, and Europe. I have built and managed long-term relationships with service providers, resellers, and platform partners, negotiating commercial terms and creating repeatable pipelines that drive customer acquisition and recurring revenue. With deep practical understanding of cross-border payments, multi-jurisdiction structures, and international growth, I am passionate about removing friction from global commerce for underserved businesses. I bring strong local market understanding, a trusted professional network across Pakistan's technology and services landscape, and the ability to engage confidently with C-level stakeholders.

I operate at the intersection of strategy, partnerships, and execution—comfortable working in ambiguity, building partnerships from the ground up, and translating strategy into measurable outcomes whether that is referral revenue, payment volumes, or long-term partner value.

Markets

US, Singapore, UAE, Hong Kong, Europe

Focus

Cross-Border Payments & Global Expansion

Network

CSPs, Resellers & Platform Partners

Lahore, Pakistan
+923316079497
mehrozone@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/mehroz-afzal

Technical Skills

Business & Partnerships

Strategic Partnership Development & Ecosystem BuildingCross-Border Business Enablement (US, Singapore, UAE, Hong Kong, Europe)Offshore Company Setup & Incorporation Advisory (Delaware, Singapore, Dubai)Global Payments Integration (Stripe, Payoneer, Wise, Razorpay)Multi-Jurisdiction Compliance & Regulatory NavigationB2B, eCommerce & Services Ecosystem DevelopmentChannel Partner, CSP & Reseller Network BuildingC-Level Stakeholder Engagement & NegotiationSaaS Scaling & Go-to-Market StrategyRevenue Pipeline Development & Customer AcquisitionReferral Revenue & Payment Volume GrowthFintech & Payment Infrastructure ConsultingMarket Entry Strategy for Emerging Markets (Pakistan Focus)Partnership Revenue & Commercial Terms NegotiationCross-Functional Team Collaboration & Ambiguity ManagementPlatform Partner Integrations & API PartnershipsLong-Term Partner Value & Relationship Management

Languages

DartJavaScript (ES6+)TypeScriptPython 3.xJavaKotlinSwiftSQLBash/Shell ScriptingC++GoRustHTML5CSS3/SCSS/SASSGraphQL SDL

Mobile

Flutter (Bloc, Provider, Riverpod, GetX)React Native (Expo, CLI)Android Native (Java/Kotlin, Jetpack Compose)iOS Native (Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit)Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Cloud Functions, Crashlytics, Remote Config)Push Notifications (FCM, APNs)App Store & Play Store DeploymentCodePush/OTA UpdatesDeep Linking & Universal LinksIn-App Purchases (RevenueCat, StoreKit)Offline-First Architecture (SQLite, Isar, Realm, Hive)Mobile CI/CD (Fastlane, Bitrise, Codemagic)App Performance Profiling & OptimizationPlatform Channels & Native Modules

Frontend

React.js (Hooks, Context, Redux, Zustand, Recoil)Next.js (App Router, Server Components, SSR, SSG, ISR)Vue.js (Vue 3, Composition API, Pinia, Vuex)Angular (RxJS, NgRx, Signals)TailwindCSSStyled Components / EmotionFramer Motion / GSAPRadix UI / shadcn/ui / Headless UIMaterial UI / Chakra UI / Ant DesignWebpack / Vite / Turbopack / esbuildJest / React Testing Library / VitestCypress / Playwright (E2E Testing)Storybook (Component Documentation)Progressive Web Apps (PWA)WebSockets / Server-Sent EventsWeb Workers / Service WorkersAccessibility (WCAG 2.1, ARIA)SEO Optimization & Core Web Vitals

Backend

Node.js (Express.js, Fastify, Koa)NestJS (Microservices, CQRS, Event Sourcing)Python (FastAPI, Django, Flask)Go (Gin, Echo)GraphQL (Apollo Server, Hasura, Prisma)REST API Design & OpenAPI/SwaggergRPC / Protocol BuffersWebSockets / Socket.IOMessage Queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka, AWS SQS, Redis Pub/Sub)MongoDB (Mongoose, Aggregation Pipelines)PostgreSQL (Prisma, Sequelize, TypeORM, Drizzle)MySQL / MariaDBRedis (Caching, Sessions, Pub/Sub, Streams)DynamoDB / FirestoreElasticsearch / OpenSearchAuthentication (JWT, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, Passport.js)API Rate Limiting & ThrottlingDatabase Sharding & ReplicationCron Jobs & Background Workers (BullMQ, Agenda)

DevOps

Docker (Multi-stage builds, Docker Compose)Kubernetes (K8s, Helm, kubectl)GitHub Actions (CI/CD Pipelines)GitLab CI/CDJenkins (Pipelines, Groovy)Terraform (IaC)Ansible / PulumiNginx / Apache (Reverse Proxy, Load Balancing)PM2 (Node.js Process Manager)Linux Server AdministrationSSL/TLS Certificates (Let's Encrypt, Certbot)Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic)Logging (ELK Stack, Loki, CloudWatch Logs)Container Registries (ECR, GCR, Docker Hub)Blue-Green / Canary DeploymentsSecrets Management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)Infrastructure Monitoring & Alerting

Cloud

AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, CloudFront, Route 53, API Gateway, Cognito, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, ElastiCache, Secrets Manager, Step Functions)GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Firestore, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, GKE, Cloud SQL, Vertex AI)Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Realtime Database, Cloud Functions, Hosting, Storage, Analytics, Crashlytics, Remote Config, App Check)Vercel (Edge Functions, Serverless, ISR)Netlify / Cloudflare WorkersSupabase (Auth, Database, Storage, Edge Functions)DigitalOcean (Droplets, App Platform, Spaces)Heroku (Dynos, Add-ons, Pipelines)Serverless FrameworkCDN Configuration & Edge Caching

AI & ML

OpenAI APIs (GPT-4, GPT-4 Turbo, Assistants API, Function Calling)Anthropic Claude APILangChain / LangGraph / LlamaIndexHugging Face Transformers / DiffusersTensorFlow / TensorFlow Lite / TensorFlow.jsPyTorch / PyTorch MobileONNX Runtime / GGUF / GPTQ QuantizationWhisper (Speech-to-Text)Stable Diffusion / DALL-E / Midjourney IntegrationRAG Pipelines (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)Vector Databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, FAISS, Milvus, Qdrant)Embeddings (OpenAI, Cohere, Sentence Transformers)Fine-tuning LLMs (LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT, Full Fine-tuning)Prompt Engineering & Chain-of-ThoughtAI Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AutoGPT, CrewAI)MLOps (MLflow, Weights & Biases, DVC)FastAPI / Gradio / Streamlit (AI App Deployment)On-Device ML (CoreML, ML Kit, TFLite)Computer Vision (OpenCV, YOLO, MediaPipe)NLP (SpaCy, NLTK, Named Entity Recognition)Scikit-learn / XGBoost / LightGBMData Processing (Pandas, NumPy, Polars)Data Visualization (Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly)AI Safety & Guardrails (Guardrails AI, NeMo Guardrails)Semantic Search & Hybrid SearchConversational AI & Chatbot Development

Work Experience

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CodeMiners IT & Consultancy

Chief Executive Officer / Founder & Technology Consultant
United States (Remote)Nov 2019 – Present
  • Partner directly with founders, CFOs, and operations leaders across Pakistan, US, Singapore, Middle East, and Europe to enable offshore company setups, SaaS scaling, and global payments integration.
  • Built and managed long-term relationships with service providers, resellers, and platform partners, negotiating commercial terms and creating repeatable pipelines that drive customer acquisition and recurring revenue.
  • Enabled compliance-aware product launches and multi-jurisdiction business structures for companies expanding into global markets like Delaware, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Dubai.
  • Architected microservices with NestJS, Redis, and PostgreSQL in Dockerized environments deployed via ECS Fargate.
  • Integrated payment systems (Stripe, Payoneer, Razorpay), real-time features (Socket.IO), and notifications (Firebase, SNS).
  • Fine-tuned LLMs (GPT-2/GPT-Neo) on domain-specific datasets using Hugging Face Transformers.
  • Developed in-app AI assistants using FastAPI + LangChain for RAG-based document summarization.
  • Deployed vector DB search using FAISS/Pinecone for personalized recommendation systems.
Key Projects

Parchi App

Flutter app integrating a GPT-2 fine-tuned chatbot for user support, Firebase Firestore for real-time DB, Isar for local persistence, and Stripe for payments.

Achieved 10,000+ downloads within the first 3 months; reduced support queries by 35% with in-app GPT chatbot.

HelperLogs Web Portal

A React + Node.js dashboard with AI-based route optimization and ETA prediction using TensorFlow and vector-based matching via Pinecone.

Improved ETA prediction accuracy by 28%; reduced manual dispatching by 40% through AI automation.

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MUST Company

Senior Full Stack Mobile Engineer
Seoul, South Korea (Remote)Feb 2024 – Aug 2024
  • Built mobile apps in Flutter using GetX, Dio, and Firebase for real-time user interaction.
  • Designed backend with Express.js + MongoDB, hosted via Heroku, and included REST APIs and modular architecture.
  • Developed embedded LLM utilities with ONNX/GGML for smart field suggestions and autocomplete directly on-device.
  • Custom FAQ generator using OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo + vector embeddings.
  • LangChain-powered smart search with Pinecone for semantic retrieval across FAQs and policy docs.
  • On-device GPT-J inference using quantized LLMs (GGUF) with Whisper integration for speech queries.
Key Projects

Offer Management App

Flutter app with QR-based offer validation and campaign assistant powered by LangChain + GPT-3.5; included AI-driven customer behavior insights and auto content suggestions.

Reduced manual campaign design time by 50% using AI-assisted recommendations; increased QR-based redemption rate by 22%.

Must Break

Developed an AI-powered real-time translation engine using Whisper and on-device LLMs to enable seamless multilingual communication during team meetings.

Decreased language-related meeting miscommunications by over 60%; achieved sub-300ms latency on live translations.

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Ittehad Engineering & Services

Regional Projects Lead – Automation & Systems
Karachi, PakistanNov 2021 – Oct 2022
  • Supervised deployment of SCADA and monitoring solutions across industrial facilities using Node-RED, InfluxDB, and Grafana dashboards.
  • Built Python microservices to capture sensor data over Modbus RTU, and exposed secure APIs via FastAPI.
  • Designed a field reporting dashboard using Vue.js + Firebase to monitor technician activities.
  • Orchestrated MQTT and OPC-UA data pipelines for real-time data processing and reporting.
Key Projects

Factory IoT Monitoring Platform

Built a live dashboard that visualized energy consumption, machine status, and downtime metrics.

Cut reporting delays by 45% and improved on-site data collection accuracy by 30%.

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Ittehad Engineering & Services

Systems Engineer – Web & Field Utilities
Karachi, PakistanJun 2019 – Nov 2021
  • Developed internal tools using Angular + Firebase for project tracking, attendance, and material logging.
  • Built a Flutter-based mobile app for field staff to submit reports and perform checklists in offline mode with local sync using SQLite.
  • Created REST APIs with Express.js and authentication with Firebase JWT.
  • Worked on asset tagging system using NFC + QR Code reader and label printers.
Key Projects

Project Tracker App

A complete internal project tracking system with Gantt chart view, field inspection module, and push notifications.

Cut reporting delays by 45% and improved on-site data collection accuracy by 30%.

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Engineering Enterprises

Associate Software & Systems Engineer
Lahore, PakistanAug 2017 – Aug 2019
  • Built desktop utilities in Electron.js to generate project BOQs and perform cost estimation.
  • Wrote Python scripts for sensor testing, calibration, and serial port communication (RS-485).
  • Created dashboards using Vue.js and Chart.js to visualize test results and QA data.
  • Assisted with software installation on field controllers and updating firmware via CLI tools.
Key Projects

BOQ Generator Tool

Built a standalone app that engineers used to estimate costs and generate dynamic client proposals.

Reduced estimation preparation time by 70%; standardized costing procedures across departments.

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Procter & Gamble

IT Intern – Digital Transformation & Operations Insight
Karachi, PakistanJun 2018 – Aug 2018
  • Worked with the Digital Transformation team to prototype internal tools for automation of inventory reporting and quality audit data using Google App Script, Google Sheets API, and JavaScript.
  • Assisted in the creation of dashboards and automated performance tracking reports that integrated with legacy ERP systems for real-time visualization.
  • Participated in early exploration of AI/ML-based anomaly detection in operations, gaining foundational experience in preparing data for modeling.
  • Shadowed senior IT and engineering leads working on real-time monitoring and alert systems.
  • Developed strong understanding of enterprise-scale system integration, cloud-first development principles, and IT operations.
Key Projects

Automated Dashboard System

Streamlined internal processes by automating inventory reporting and quality audit data.

Automated dashboards decreased manual data collection efforts by 60%; contributed to pilot ML system with 75% anomaly detection accuracy in QA datasets.

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Meet The Counselors Foundation

Trainee Software Engineer – QA & Automation Support
Lahore, PakistanAug 2016 – Aug 2017
  • Supported the engineering team in digitizing field reports, QA checklists, and SOPs by developing internal tools using Excel Macros and Python scripting.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to optimize QA workflows and reduce manual documentation overhead.
  • Participated in client meetings to gather technical requirements and assisted in translating business needs into structured documentation.
  • Contributed to a pilot tool for inspection task tracking that inspired later digitalization efforts.
  • Gained early exposure to software documentation standards, QA process automation, and field engineering data systems.
Key Projects

QA Automation Tools

Developed custom macros and templates for QA checklist automation and report generation.

Improved documentation efficiency by 50% using custom macros and templates; enhanced QA checklist accuracy and traceability.

Case Studies

Detailed breakdowns of enterprise solutions I've architected and delivered, showcasing the challenges, solutions, and measurable business impact.

Mobile Application

Parchi App

A comprehensive digital receipts and expense management platform designed to revolutionize how users track, organize, and manage their financial transactions with AI-powered assistance.

6 months4 engineers
10,000+
Downloads
35%
Support Queries Reduced
FlutterDartGPT-2Firebase Firestore+5
Enterprise Web Platform

HelperLogs Web Portal

An intelligent logistics management dashboard that leverages AI/ML to optimize delivery routes, predict ETAs with high accuracy, and automate dispatching decisions for fleet operations.

8 months6 engineers
+28%
ETA Prediction Accuracy
40%
Manual Dispatching Reduced
ReactNode.jsTensorFlowPinecone+5
Mobile & Backend Platform

Offer Management System

A sophisticated offer and campaign management platform enabling businesses to create, distribute, and track promotional campaigns with AI-assisted content generation and customer behavior analytics.

5 months3 engineers
-50%
Campaign Design Time
+22%
QR Redemption Rate
FlutterLangChainGPT-3.5Node.js+4
AI/ML Product

Must Break - Real-time Translation Engine

An innovative AI-powered real-time translation solution designed to break language barriers during multinational team meetings, enabling seamless communication across Korean, English, Japanese, and Chinese.

4 months2 engineers
60%
Miscommunications Reduced
<300ms
Translation Latency
WhisperGGUF/ONNXOn-device LLMsPython+3
Industrial IoT Solution

Factory IoT Monitoring Platform

An enterprise-grade industrial monitoring platform providing real-time visibility into factory operations, energy consumption, machine health, and production metrics across multiple manufacturing facilities.

10 months5 engineers
-45%
Reporting Delays
+30%
Data Accuracy
Node-REDInfluxDBGrafanaSCADA+5
Enterprise Application

Enterprise Project Tracker

A comprehensive project management and field operations platform enabling engineering teams to track projects, conduct inspections, and manage resources with offline-capable mobile applications.

7 months4 engineers
-45%
Reporting Delays
+30%
Data Collection Accuracy
FlutterSQLiteFirebaseAngular+4
Desktop Application

BOQ Generator Tool

A specialized desktop application for engineering firms to streamline bill of quantities (BOQ) creation, cost estimation, and client proposal generation with standardized templates and automated calculations.

5 months2 engineers
-70%
Estimation Time
100%
Pricing Consistency
Electron.jsVue.jsChart.jsPython+3

Certifications & Achievements

Registered Engineer

Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)

Advanced Flutter Development

Udemy

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Introduction to Generative AI

Google Cloud (Coursera)

Building LLM Applications with LangChain

DeepLearning.AI

Fine-tuning Transformers

Hugging Face

Deploying LLMs with ONNX and GGUF

Private Course

Get In Touch

Have a project in mind or want to discuss opportunities? Feel free to reach out.

Location

Lahore, Pakistan

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