name: Aamir Khan
location: New Delhi, India 🇮🇳
role: Senior Software Engineer
focus: Frontend Architecture · IAM · Developer Platforms
pronouns: he/him
currently: Building things that scale · Exploring Web Assembly & Functional Programming
also: Hobbyist Photographer 📷7+ years of shipping systems that don't just work — they scale.
From blockchain dApps to OTT streaming to identity infrastructure powering 40M+ developers.
I obsess over performance, security, and developer experience.
🔭 Currently exploring: WebAssembly · Functional Programming · Blockchain
📐 Design philosophy: Systems that are boring to ops and delightful to users
🎯 Engineering ethos: Measure first. Optimize second. Ship always.
📷 After hours: Chasing light with a camera — @click_randomness
🎮 Fun fact: I made Docker setup 18x faster before coffee
Things I'm actively building & learning in public:
- 🧠 leetcode-coach — DSA prep, shipped in the open
- 📝 Correctly - Minimalist AI-powered Chrome extension for grammar, spelling, and punctuation correction
- ⚡ Check all
🟠 Postman — Software Engineer II · Sep 2022 – Feb 2026
The platform 40M+ developers swear by. I helped keep it that way.
- 🏗️ Led architecture & migration of 40M+ users to a multi-team system using Temporal workflows + Node.js
- 🔐 Delivered IAM systems (OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SSO, SAML) securing access for 20M+ developers
- 📦 Engineered ownership-aware data portability — secure collection/workspace transfers on team exit
- 🌏 Built i18n framework for IAM enabling expansion into Japan + 5 global markets
- ⚡ Cut app load time from 30s → 10s through surgical performance optimization
- 🐳 Built Docker CLI tooling that slashed dev environment setup from 3+ hours → under 10 minutes — adopted org-wide
- 🤝 Shipped cross-team workspace sharing, redesigned re-auth flows, defined cross-functional APIs
🟡 DIAGNAL — Senior Software Engineer · Feb 2021 – Sep 2022
Millions of concurrent streams. Zero margin for error.
- 🎬 Architected modular OTT platform with runtime-switchable players
- 🔌 Introduced plugin-based extensibility for ads & analytics
- ⚙️ Reduced integration time by 40% through platform decoupling
- 📐 Owned end-to-end system design across frontend and playback layers
🔵 Xfinite — Software Engineer · Sep 2019 – Jan 2021
Sole frontend engineer. Blockchain-native. Shipped everything.
- ⛓️ Led frontend for blockchain-based OTT platform as the only frontend engineer
- 📡 Delivered live streaming, VOD, advertising & token-based reward systems
- 📱 Designed scalable cross-device streaming architecture
⚫ Turing Labs — Full Stack Developer · Nov 2017 – Sep 2019
- 🧱 Developed dApps, smart contracts & ICO platforms
- 🔄 Contributed to decentralized exchange systems
- ⚡ End-to-end feature delivery across frontend and backend
⚪ WiseCalvin — Software Developer & Security Tester · Nov 2016 – Sep 2017
- 🔒 Security testing & vulnerability remediation
- 🌐 WordPress plugins & themes
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║ "The best systems are invisible to users ║
║ and obvious to engineers." ║
║ — me, probably ║
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