Lead Software Engineer
Asher Waqar
Software Engineer with 5+ years building high-throughput, distributed systems at AT&T. M.S. Computer Science (AI) candidate at Georgia Tech. Focused on scalable backend systems and applied AI.
Enterprise Experience
Mission-Critical Payment Platform
Backend systems for a platform managing $6B in annual payments and 250,000+ enterprise contracts across AT&T's infrastructure leases.
Real Estate Rights Calculator
Rebuilt a legacy tool used by RF engineers, ensuring cell tower designs comply with square-inch lease agreements across 70,000+ sites.
Agentic Microservices Modernization
Led a 6-engineer team upgrading 80+ microservices from Java 8 to 17 and Spring Boot 2.x to 3.3, using AI-assisted tooling to cut per-service upgrade time from days to hours.
Georgia Tech Projects
Code not public per academic integrity policy.
Algorithmic Trading Strategy System
Capstone project building two trading systems for JPM. A manual rule-based strategy and an ML strategy learner using the same four technical indicators. Both evaluated in and out of sample against a buy and hold benchmark.
Enron Email Fraud Detection Pipeline
Group project analyzing 500,000 Enron emails for evidence of market manipulation during the California energy crisis. Four phase pipeline: network graph analysis, temporal filtering, custom NLP lexicons, and composite risk scoring.
Image Segmentation with Expectation Maximization
Implemented k-means and a full multivariate Gaussian Mixture Model with expectation maximization from scratch in NumPy. Applied to Van Gogh's Starry Night and 3D point cloud segmentation. Vectorized E step runs in 37ms, the loop equivalent takes hours.
Personal Projects
Financials.AI
AI-powered personal finance tool. Upload a Chase credit card CSV and get a structured spending breakdown of categories, recommendations, and warnings. Backed by a pluggable LLM layer that supports Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini with no code changes between providers.
This Portfolio
Hand built with Next.js 16 App Router and React 19. No component library, custom dark/light mode toggle using useSyncExternalStore and a MutationObserver to avoid FOUC without useState. Static-generated detail pages for each project. Hosted on Vercel with a custom domain and HTTPS.