Senior Python Backend Engineer | Technical Team Lead
Senior engineer and technical lead with nearly 4 years of experience architecting resilient REST APIs, enterprise web-scraping systems, and automated data pipelines. Experienced in leading small engineering teams, reverse-engineering complex data sources, and building high-concurrency systems.
Background & Experience
A comprehensive look at my engineering journey, technical leadership, and academic background.
Professional Summary
I am a Senior Python Backend Engineer & Technical Team Lead with nearly 4 years of hands-on experience building resilient backend services, high-throughput web scraping architectures, and automated ETL pipelines. My core focus is engineering systems that are fault-tolerant, scalable, and built to handle messy real-world data at enterprise volume.
In my day-to-day role, I lead technical design, guide a small team of engineers through rigorous code reviews, and tackle complex R&D engineering challenges—from reverse-engineering protected APIs and anti-bot obstacles to tuning concurrency and proxy management. I have owned technical decisions for data pipelines that have supported ingestion workloads of 20M+ records per day.
Professional Experience
Technical Team Leader
Current Role- Lead technical design and implementation of Python-based scraping, automation, and backend solutions.
- Provide hands-on technical guidance to a small engineering team, conducting rigorous code reviews and system architecture walkthroughs.
- Own technical decisions for data-collection pipelines whose workload and throughput vary by project; supported projects have reached 20M+ records per day.
- Drive R&D initiatives to evaluate emerging technologies, resolve complex engineering roadblocks, and improve developer workflows.
- Coordinate end-to-end integrations across external APIs, database systems, and cloud backend microservices.
Senior Python Developer
- Built and maintained large-scale web-scraping and data-collection systems for complex and protected data sources, including headless-browser automation.
- Reverse-engineered web requests, anti-bot mechanisms, and undocumented endpoints to establish reliable automated extraction.
- Implemented high concurrency, intelligent response handling, rotating proxy pools, and exponential backoff retry strategies to maximize collection reliability.
- Designed standardized and reusable data architectures for enterprise scraping workflows.
- Developed high-performance REST APIs and backend services using Django, Flask, and FastAPI.
Support Executive (MIS)
- Monitored nationwide recharge transactions and investigated complex operational and transactional discrepancies.
- Prepared daily, weekly, and monthly operational performance reports using advanced Excel, including PivotTables, VLOOKUP, and data charts.
Customer Care Executive
- Handled inbound customer queries, resolved customer issues, and maintained high service-level customer satisfaction.
Education
Master of Computer Applications (MCA)
7.9 CPI • DistinctionGovernment MCA College, Gujarat Technological University (GTU)
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Skills & Expertise
A structured breakdown of my technical stack, backend architectures, web-scraping toolsets, and deployment environments.
Programming Languages
Core languages used for backend logic, data processing, and scripting.
Backend & API Engineering
Frameworks and protocols for building high-performance services.
Web Scraping & Automation
Data extraction systems built to reliably bypass protections and scale.
Databases & In-Memory Stores
Document, relational, and in-memory caches for fast read/writes.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Serverless workflows, containerized runtimes, and reverse proxies.
Tools & DevOps
Developer tooling, version control, and performance profiling.
Engineering Leadership & High-Throughput Focus
Experienced in architecting systems from 0 to 1, designing fault-tolerant retry topologies, and establishing code review standards for production pipelines.
Spoken Languages
Projects & Systems
A showcase of production platforms, distributed scraping architectures, and backend solutions I have architected and built.
UniDataHub
Cloud-Native Live Scraping & Ready-Made Datasets Platform
Designed and developed a unified data platform that empowers users to initiate live web-scraping jobs on demand, monitor real-time execution, and purchase pre-collected, structured datasets.
Enterprise Web Scraping & Data Extraction Pipelines
High-throughput automated extraction supporting 20M+ records/day
Engineered large-scale, automated web-scraping infrastructure capable of handling protected data sources, anti-bot mechanisms, and massive daily ingestion volumes.
- •Reverse-engineered web requests, hidden APIs, and dynamic SPAs using Playwright & Scrapy.
- •Designed rotating proxy topologies, session pools, and automatic exponential backoff retry systems.
- •Implemented high-concurrency async pipelines delivering data into MongoDB and Redis at enterprise speed.
API Hub Portal
Centralized API orchestration & documentation engine
Developed a centralized API documentation and orchestration portal for managing enterprise microservice endpoints and testing payload contracts.
- •Engineered standardized RESTful service endpoints with structured validation schemas.
- •Created interactive documentation workflows to accelerate developer onboarding.
Graph Email API Service
Automated enterprise communication pipeline with Microsoft Graph
Engineered a backend integration service utilizing Microsoft Graph API to automate enterprise email ingestion, mailbox event triggers, and secure attachment extraction.
- •Implemented OAuth 2.0 token management and automated refresh cycles for enterprise tenants.
- •Built high-speed asynchronous processing to ingest, parse, and route incoming communication payloads.
Wafa Naqab Shop
Commercial e-commerce platform & order management
Full-stack e-commerce solution built with catalog discovery, customer cart workflows, and secure payment processing.
- •Developed responsive user interfaces, product variant management, and checkout flows.
- •Optimized page loads and image delivery for seamless mobile shopping experience.
Shreeji Distributor Platform
B2B distributor catalog & inventory showcase
A wholesale distributor management and product catalog showcase platform designed to streamline inventory presentation and business inquiries.
- •Built structured catalog filtering and product categorization.
- •Implemented mobile-friendly layouts for on-the-go distributor order inquiries.
CodeCrafters Hub
Developer collaboration & engineering resources portal
A developer resource and collaboration platform built to provide software engineers with curated tools, templates, and problem-solving guides.
- •Designed a clean, minimalist developer-first interface for rapid information retrieval.
- •Implemented client-side search and structured engineering documentation sections.
Car Rental Management System
Vehicle inventory, reservation & billing platform
Full-stack rental booking and fleet management web application with customer reservation scheduling, rate calculation, and invoice tracking.
- •Architected relational database schema for vehicles, bookings, and customer profiles.
- •Implemented role-based administrative workflows for rental fleet verification.
Online BookStore Platform
E-commerce book catalog & customer order management
Web-based bookstore management platform featuring dynamic category browsing, search filtering, user authentication, and order workflows.
- •Built Django backend models and relational queries for genre categorization.
- •Integrated shopping cart session management and user order histories.
Contact & Collaboration
Whether you have a complex backend challenge, high-volume scraping needs, or an engineering leadership opening, I'd love to connect.
linkedin.com/in/ashad-khira
GitHub
github.com/Ashad-Khira
Phone
+91 95370 99393Location
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India