Backend engineer from Pakistan β building scalable systems, reading Dostoevsky between deploys.
name: Abdul Rehman Khan
location: Pakistan
role: Backend Engineer
currently:
- writing Go microservices with Gin
- shipping Laravel + NestJS APIs for clients
- running services on AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3)
- exploring Kafka + MinIO for event-driven systems
ask_me_about:
- books, science, travel, philosophy
reading:
fiction: [Dostoevsky, Kafka, Camus]
urdu: [Mustansar Hussain Tarar, Abdullah Hussain]
fun_fact: "A good travelogue and a clean commit log hit the same spot."Languages
Frameworks
Databases & Messaging
AWS & DevOps
- βοΈ Scalable microservices in Go β Gin, Kafka, MinIO, gRPC
- π§© Laravel & NestJS APIs for production clients β clean domain boundaries, typed responses
- βοΈ AWS infrastructure β EC2/ECS deployments, RDS Postgres, S3 pipelines, CloudWatch alarms
- π€ AI-assisted tooling β lead-gen automation, multi-channel bots, admin dashboards
- π§ͺ Competitive programming β sharpening the fundamentals on LeetCode
"Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time." β Dostoevsky
I read a lot. Russian novels, Camus, and Urdu travelogues β especially Mustansar Hussain Tarar's wanderings and Abdullah Hussain's long, heavy fiction. Happy to trade book recommendations any day.



