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    "name": "Shahan Ali Naqvi",
    "label": "Full-Stack Software Engineer | Product Engineer | AI Automation Specialist",
    "image": "https://shahannaqvi.com/assets/portfolio-hero.png",
    "email": "contact@shahannaqvi.com",
    "url": "https://shahannaqvi.com/",
    "summary": "Full-stack software engineer with 4+ years of professional experience building enterprise platforms, AI-powered products, and cross-platform mobile apps. Frontend-leaning with deep backend experience. Contributed to an AWS cost optimization platform managing $2B+ in cloud spend for 500+ enterprises, and built AI agent orchestration systems for SEO, content, design, and productivity workflows.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Islamabad",
      "countryCode": "PK",
      "region": "Islamabad Capital Territory"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "shahannaqvi",
        "url": "https://linkedin.com/in/shahannaqvi"
      },
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "shahan-ali-naqvi",
        "url": "https://github.com/shahan-ali-naqvi"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "VertigoWorks",
      "position": "CEO / CTO",
      "location": "Remote",
      "startDate": "2020",
      "endDate": "Present",
      "summary": "Founder of VertigoWorks: operated as an independent freelance studio under the VertigoWorks name from 2020, and formalized it into a software company in late 2025, building innovative products with AI and automation across web and mobile platforms.",
      "highlights": [
        "Drive product strategy, engineering direction, architecture, and delivery.",
        "Architect and deliver full-stack solutions spanning SaaS automation, AI agent systems, and custom enterprise software for clients and internal ventures.",
        "Partnerships through VertigoWorks include SEO Maximus (AI Blog Builder) and Ranea AI (technical advisory)."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Ranea AI",
      "position": "Technical Advisor",
      "location": "Remote",
      "startDate": "2025-10",
      "endDate": "Present",
      "summary": "Advise an AI-powered healthcare automation platform backed by AWS Startup and NVIDIA Inception. Partnership through VertigoWorks.",
      "highlights": [
        "Advise on product strategy, architecture, scalability, and integration across conversational AI agent systems.",
        "Support clinic operations, clinical documentation, and revenue cycle management automation."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "SEO Maximus",
      "position": "Software Engineer (Freelance)",
      "location": "Remote",
      "startDate": "2025-10",
      "endDate": "2026-03",
      "summary": "Built the AI Blog Builder module end-to-end. Partnership through VertigoWorks.",
      "highlights": [
        "Created a multi-agent AI workflow orchestration system that generates complete SEO-optimized blog pages from a single user prompt.",
        "Developed the frontend in Angular and backend in FastAPI.",
        "Orchestrated AI agents for research, SEO optimization, copywriting, and image generation."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Trilogy / Crossover (CloudFix and QueryLens)",
      "position": "Software Engineer",
      "location": "Remote",
      "startDate": "2024-06",
      "endDate": "2025-10",
      "summary": "Contributed to CloudFix, an enterprise AWS cost optimization platform managing $2B+ in cloud spend for 500+ companies including Mastercard, Ryanair, and Western Digital.",
      "highlights": [
        "Shipped approximately 20 savings opportunity Finders and automated Fixers in TypeScript and Python.",
        "Modified and improved more than half of the existing finder/fixer catalog.",
        "Drove approximately $400,000 in customer savings in Q1 2025 with comparable results in subsequent quarters.",
        "Enforced per-tenant cost caps that brought outlier spend from $3M+ below the $2M target.",
        "Led frontend work and built the full UI/UX for QueryLens, an AI-powered database upgrade assistant for safe MySQL and PostgreSQL migrations."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "MPN (Malikki)",
      "position": "Frontend Developer",
      "location": "Islamabad, Pakistan",
      "startDate": "2024-01",
      "endDate": "2024-04",
      "summary": "Redesigned and localized the Malikki classified ads platform for the Pakistani market.",
      "highlights": [
        "Transformed the original Turkish-based UI into a modern English-language experience.",
        "Rebuilt UI components and modernized layout patterns."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Independent (later under the VertigoWorks name)",
      "position": "Freelance Designer & Developer",
      "location": "Islamabad, Pakistan / Remote",
      "startDate": "2016",
      "endDate": "2024",
      "summary": "Freelance career started in school with graphic design, expanding into video editing, WordPress development, and Flutter mobile apps; operated under the VertigoWorks banner from 2020.",
      "highlights": [
        "Completed a diploma in graphic design (2018) alongside client work.",
        "Delivered video editing and WordPress projects through university, with early exploration of VFX, SketchUp, and Blender.",
        "Transitioned to full-time software engineering after graduating in 2022, focusing on Flutter mobile apps for clients until early 2024 before shifting to SaaS."
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "name": "CloudFix",
      "description": "Enterprise AWS cost optimization platform managing $2B+ in cloud spend for 500+ companies.",
      "highlights": [
        "Built and improved TypeScript and Python savings automation.",
        "Contributed to customer savings and per-tenant cost governance."
      ],
      "keywords": ["AWS", "TypeScript", "Python", "Cost Optimization", "Enterprise SaaS"]
    },
    {
      "name": "QueryLens",
      "description": "AI-powered database upgrade assistant for safe MySQL and PostgreSQL migrations through query compatibility analysis.",
      "highlights": [
        "Led frontend implementation and built the product UI/UX."
      ],
      "keywords": ["AI", "Databases", "MySQL", "PostgreSQL", "UI/UX"]
    },
    {
      "name": "AI Blog Builder",
      "description": "Multi-agent AI workflow orchestration system generating complete SEO-optimized blog pages from one prompt.",
      "highlights": [
        "Built Angular frontend and FastAPI backend.",
        "Orchestrated agents for research, SEO optimization, copywriting, and image generation."
      ],
      "keywords": ["Angular", "FastAPI", "AI Agents", "SEO", "LLM Integration"]
    },
    {
      "name": "MyThrive",
      "description": "Cross-platform habit-building app and web panel with personality assessments, habit tracking, mood management, AI coaching, and community features.",
      "highlights": [
        "Co-founded and developed the product.",
        "Owned the full product lifecycle. Project currently paused."
      ],
      "keywords": ["Flutter", "Mobile App", "AI Coaching", "Product Management"]
    },
    {
      "name": "shahannaqvi.com Portfolio",
      "description": "Static portfolio and hiring profile built with semantic HTML, responsive CSS, JSON-LD structured data, llms.txt, sitemap.xml, robots.txt, resume PDF, and machine-readable resume data.",
      "url": "https://shahannaqvi.com/",
      "keywords": ["Portfolio", "Structured Data", "SEO", "AI Discoverability", "Semantic HTML"]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad",
      "area": "Software Engineering",
      "studyType": "BS",
      "startDate": "2018",
      "endDate": "2022",
      "score": "CGPA 3.67 / 4.00",
      "courses": ["Senior thesis: Mixed Reality-based Social Glasses for the Deaf"]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "Languages",
      "keywords": ["TypeScript", "JavaScript", "Python", "Dart", "HTML", "CSS", "SQL"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Frontend",
      "keywords": ["Angular", "React", "Next.js", "Flutter", "Responsive Design", "UI/UX Design"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Backend",
      "keywords": ["Node.js", "NestJS", "FastAPI", "REST APIs"]
    },
    {
      "name": "AI and Automation",
      "keywords": ["AI Agents", "Multi-Agent Orchestration", "LLM Integration", "Prompt Engineering", "Agentic SaaS Automation"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Cloud and DevOps",
      "keywords": ["AWS", "Docker", "Git", "CI/CD"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Databases",
      "keywords": ["MySQL", "PostgreSQL", "Firebase"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Leadership",
      "keywords": ["Product Management", "Project Management", "Technical Advisory", "Team Leadership", "Architecture Design"]
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Fluent"
    },
    {
      "language": "Urdu",
      "fluency": "Native or professional"
    }
  ],
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        "Full-Stack Software Engineer",
        "Product Engineer",
        "AI Automation Specialist",
        "Technical Lead",
        "Frontend Lead",
        "Technical Product Builder"
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    "lastModified": "2026-07-26",
    "assessmentSignals": [
      "CCAT 35/50, approximately 92nd percentile, proctored",
      "LLM hands-on since Jan 2023",
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