SABA ABBASI — SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

I build the systems other teams depend on.

Streaming, payments and government platforms that stay up under load. Baghdad, remote-first.

Now: running a national streaming CMS and its media pipeline · open to backend and architecture work · updated Sep 2026

Baghdad --:-- UTC+3

get in touch selected work

01 / THE SHELL

Poke at it.

Everything here has an ordinary section too. Type help to look around — or press / anywhere on the site.

Windows PowerShell — C:\Users\saba

gr-ix.space

Type 'help' for commands, or 'dir' to look around.

PS C:\Users\saba>

02 / SELECTED WORK

Work that shipped.

Three systems, three sectors. Each opens to the problem, the approach and what changed.

Media · 2025 — present

A streaming CMS that publishes in seconds

Content, media operations and enterprise workflows for a national streaming service, on one backend.

ASP.NET CorePostgreSQLRedisRabbitMQ+1

Architecture & backend lead · 2025

Fintech · 2023 — 2024

Payment rails for banks, under PCI-DSS

Processing, settlement reconciliation and biometric authentication for a payment services provider.

ASP.NET CoreDapperSQL ServerOracle+1

Full-stack engineer · 2024

Government · 2023 — 2024

A ministry system, from SRS to production

Requirements, architecture and delivery for a Ministry of Interior engagement with government security constraints.

Enterprise IntegrationSecurity ArchitectureSRSSDD

Solution architect · 2024

03 / WHAT I WORK ON

The stack, honestly.

PLATFORMS

ASP.NET CoreEntity FrameworkNode.jsDjango NinjaReact

DATA

PostgreSQLOracle / PL-SQLSQL ServerRedisElasticsearchClickHouse

ARCHITECTURE

Distributed SystemsEvent-DrivenDDDCQRSMulti-TenantCaching

OPERATIONS

AWSDockerGitHub ActionsRabbitMQHangfireLinux

INTEGRATION

RESTSOAPSignalRTUS Resumable UploadsSAP BRIMAuth Protocols

PRACTICE

Requirements GatheringTechnical DocumentationMentoringStakeholder Management

04 / EXPERIENCE

Six roles, one thread.

Newest first. The PDF has the long version.

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2025 — present

Asl Al-Uroba · Baghdad, Iraq · Hybrid

Currently leading the backend of a large-scale telecom billing platform.
Own the core of a national streaming CMS: content, media operations and enterprise workflows on one platform.
Redis caching and versioned reads took publish-to-live from minutes to seconds and cut backend load.
Media pipeline end to end — TUS uploads, RabbitMQ workers, transcoding — running unattended in production.
CRM and billing: provisioning, offers, vouchers, configurable business rules, SAP BRIM integration.

ASP.NET CorePostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchRabbitMQClickHouseDockerHangfire

Software Engineer

Mar 2024 — Jan 2025

Creative Advanced Technologies · Baghdad, Iraq · Remote

Backend for high-volume media delivery; introduced profiling and removed the bottlenecks it found.
Owned releases and the integration layer over legacy systems.

ASP.NET CoreEntity FrameworkPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchDocker

Solution Architect Consultant

2023 — 2024

NewLake Technologies · Baghdad, Iraq · Online

Led a Ministry of Interior system from requirements to production; authored the SRS and SDD that were signed off.

Enterprise IntegrationSecurity ArchitectureSRSSDD

Full Stack Developer

Jan 2023 — May 2024

Arab Payment Services · Baghdad, Iraq · On site

Payment processing and settlement reconciliation for banks, under PCI-DSS.
Biometric authentication service and modernisation of a mission-critical platform.

ASP.NET CoreDapperSQL ServerOraclePL/SQLReactSignalRPCI-DSS

Freelance Software Engineer

2022 — 2023

AIXD · Baghdad, Iraq · Remote

Multi-tenant platform, metadata-driven admin, real-time transport tracking.

ASP.NET CorePostgreSQLMySQLReact

Software Developer / Trainer

Aug 2022 — Mar 2023

Computiq · Baghdad, Iraq

Taught backend, databases and architecture; mentored on system design.

DjangoDjango NinjaReact

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05 / EDUCATION

On paper.

2026 — present

MBA

Quantic School of Business & Technology, United States — Online

2025 — present

MSc Computing & Information Systems

Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom — Online

2018 — 2022

BSc Control and Systems Engineering

University of Technology, Iraq

06 / WRITING

Things worth writing down.

Notes from production — caching, uploads, query planning.

Aug 20266 minRedis

Cache invalidation for a CMS nobody wants to wait for

Editors expect a publish to be live immediately; the CDN expects to be left alone. Where we drew the line.

Jun 20265 minTUS

Resumable uploads are a state machine, not an endpoint

What TUS actually asks of your backend once files are measured in gigabytes and networks in Baghdad.

Apr 20267 minClickHouse

ClickHouse for playback analytics, PostgreSQL for everything else

Two databases is not a failure of nerve. It is an admission that the workloads have nothing in common.

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07 / CONTACT — REPLIES WITHIN A DAY

Send the problem, not the pitch.

Baghdad, UTC+3. Hybrid or remote. A paragraph of context is enough to start.

saba@gr-ix.space