The Develos Chronicle
Late edition

The Develos Chronicle

Vol. MMXXVI, No. 007 One engineer, many domains Friday, 18 September 2026

The engineer who builds the whole system

Full-stack applications, real-time voice, VoIP infrastructure and the monitoring that keeps all of it honest.

Finance   SaaS   Telecom   Artificial intelligence   Infrastructure   Automation

Local engineer, global systems

Three years of production work, and counting

Haroon Saleem builds software around the way businesses actually operate. His work runs across full-stack applications, backend APIs, AI systems, real-time communications, cloud infrastructure, monitoring and automation.

Recent projects cover mortgage lending, rental SaaS, IT infrastructure, developer automation, VoIP, call operations, CRM platforms and voice AI. Earlier engineering work adds computer vision, FPGA image processing, satellite communications and system administration to the record.

The domain changes from one project to the next. The method does not.

Learn the workflow, design the system, build the interfaces, connect the infrastructure, test the path, then ship and operate it. It is an unglamorous sequence, and it is the reason the systems stay up long after the launch announcement has scrolled off the page.

Nineteen of those systems are on file. Most of them are still running.

The full record continues in Section C
Islamabad, Pakistan
to the world
Build. Solve.
Automate. Repeat.
Haroon Saleem
Haroon Saleem Software engineer, AI systems, telecom, full stack

The system view

How a build fits together, layer by layer

ProductNext.js, React
ServicesPython, Django, FastAPI
DataPostgreSQL, Redis, Supabase
Real timeSIP, WebRTC, LiveKit
InfrastructureAWS, Docker, Zabbix
AutomationCI/CD, Neo4j, MAESTRO
FinanceSaaSTelecomAIIT infraAutomationEmbedded
Open to engineering work

Product engineering, real-time systems and infrastructure. Contract or full time.

Read the CV

By the numbers

The record, counted
3+Years in production
19Systems on file
6Credentials
70+Repositories

The toolmaker

Turning coffee into code

Django, React, Twilio, Zabbix or a language model. The tool gets chosen after the workflow is understood, never before. The boring parts get automated so the interesting parts can be built properly.

“Good software feels like magic.”

Still loading

Learning, leading, building

An MSc in electrical and computer engineering from NUST, a project lead role at CCRIPT Agency, and an appetite for larger delivery ownership. Heading toward delivery management and, in time, a CTO seat.

“A better version is always in progress.”

Reach the desk

Correspondence welcome

The Develos ChronicleFront pagePage 1

Lead projects get the column space. Supporting work stays short, and the archive runs as single lines. Everything here was built for production use, not for a portfolio page.

CCRIPT Agency, current desk

Product, SaaS, infrastructure, AI
Finance

A lending platform, from application form to closing

Loan and mortgage platform work covering both loan origination and point-of-sale workflows: the borrower-facing application journey, the internal processing screens, the backend services underneath them, and the data model that has to satisfy both at once. Delivery runs through automated testing and CI/CD onto AWS.

Mortgage software lives or dies on the accuracy of its workflow, so the build started with how loan officers actually move a file forward, then worked outward into interfaces and infrastructure.

Rental trailer platform

A multi-tenant SaaS product for trailer rental operations, built on modern web delivery with managed data and continuous deployment. Each operator gets isolated data on shared infrastructure.

Built with Next.js, Supabase and Vercel.

Lead manager with an AI front door

Lead intake, qualification, follow-up sequencing and communication tracking for real estate teams, with automated handling of the repetitive first-touch work that agents usually lose to their inbox.

Built with Python, Django and PostgreSQL.

Zabbix and Meraki monitoring

Infrastructure monitoring and network operations: Zabbix templates and triggers, Cisco Meraki device telemetry, Python and Bash tooling, and dashboards for the people watching the estate.

Built with Zabbix, Meraki, Python and Bash.

An agentic development pipeline

A pipeline that carries development work through planning, implementation, verification and escalation without supervision, with a memory layer in Neo4j and CI/CD at the end of the line.

Built with Python, Neo4j and MAESTRO.

VEEIVS, communications and CRM

Voice, telephony, CRM, AI

A full communications product surface

Call operations, dialer workflows, CRM, VoIP signalling, monitoring and AI-assisted voice, all built around telephony that has to answer in real time, every time.

Telecom

Watching every call, while it is still happening

A telephony system for high-volume call operations, carrying live call state, logs, recordings, analytics and alerting. SIP and WebRTC connect through Twilio and Telnyx into backend call control, with async processing keeping the write path clear during peaks.

The hard part is not the call. It is knowing, at any second, what every call is doing, and being able to prove it afterwards.

Dialer system

Campaign-driven dialing tied into call state, routing rules, agent workflows and carrier integrations, so supervisors can change a campaign without touching the call path.

Built with Django, React, Telnyx and Twilio.

CRM platforms

Internal and customer-facing CRM covering users, campaigns, role-based permissions, interaction history and activity tracking across the operation.

Built with Django, PostgreSQL and React.

Soft switch development

SIP call control, routing, carrier connectivity and media handling. Real-time call processing built at the signalling layer rather than bolted on above it.

Built with Kamailio, Drachtio and RTPengine.

VICIdial operations

Working inside the wider call-center stack alongside the dialer, routing layer, CRM and carrier-connected operations that VICIdial and Asterisk sit within.

Built with VICIdial, Asterisk and SIP.

Voice-enabled assistant

Speech to text, language model orchestration and text to speech over live audio, with telephony control, interruption handling and live transcripts for the human listening in.

Built with Deepgram, Vapi, ElevenLabs and LiveKit.

Automated call QA

Call analysis producing summaries, disposition classification, sentiment and topic signals, and compliance validation. QA coverage across every call instead of a sampled few.

Built with Python, Django and applied ML.

Personal build, in progress

Owning the stack from product layer to carrier edge
DJANGO Product layer APPLICATION Control plane KAMAILIO SIP edge DRACHTIO Call control RTPENGINE Media relay PROVIDERS Carrier layer
Fig. 1   Signalling and media path for the personal VoIP platform
Personal system

Building the whole VoIP platform, alone

A personal platform for call tracking, monitoring, dialer operations, SIP provider connectivity, routing and soft-switch call handling. The architecture spans application services, SIP signalling, media, provider connectivity, databases and observability.

Nothing here is outsourced to a vendor abstraction, which is exactly the point. Every layer is one that has to be understood before it can be operated.

KamailioDrachtioRTPengineDjangoPostgreSQLRedisZabbix

“Full control of the communications stack, from the product layer down to the carrier edge.”

From the archives

Software, embedded, cloud, research
  • Palm print recognition

    Biometric authentication from document-scanner imagery. Took second place at the 2024 final year project showcase.

    Python, MATLAB, computer vision
  • Image processing on silicon

    Sharpening and smoothing filters implemented on a Spartan-3 FPGA for real-time image processing.

    Verilog, MATLAB, FPGA
  • Dockerized microservices

    Containerized Django and Node.js services on AWS with secure deployment, pipelines and service isolation.

    Docker, AWS, GitHub Actions
  • Payments and subscriptions

    Stripe workflows with webhooks covering plan management, transactions, subscription state and reporting.

    Stripe, webhooks, Django
  • Real-time sensor monitoring

    A sensor network with live dashboards, event alerting and cloud integration for environmental data.

    IoT, embedded, cloud
  • Early voice assistant work

    The first real-time speech work, wiring LiveKit, Vapi, Deepgram and ElevenLabs into backend services.

    LiveKit, Vapi, Deepgram

The Develos ChronicleSection B, the workPage 3

Leadership, product delivery, full-stack engineering, telecom, and the electrical engineering foundations underneath all of it.

May 2026 to nowCCRIPT Agency

CCRIPT Agency

Project lead PL2, full stack software engineer

  • Project lead PL2, May 2026 to now
  • Full stack software engineer, Apr 2026 to now

Leading delivery across finance, SaaS, infrastructure monitoring, agentic development tooling and full-stack product systems.

Jan 2024 to Jan 2026VEEIVS

VEEIVS

Full stack software engineer, voice AI, VoIP, CRM

  • Full stack software engineer, Feb 2025 to Jan 2026
  • Mid full stack engineer, Sep 2024 to Feb 2025
  • Backend developer, Apr 2024 to Sep 2024
  • Python engineer, Jan 2024 to Mar 2024

Built backend, CRM, telephony, AI voice, cloud and real-time communication systems with Django, FastAPI, Twilio, Telnyx, LiveKit, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, SIP and WebRTC.

Feb 2026 to Mar 2026M/s Tecknotra

Microwave engineering

Wireless communications

Satellite and microwave link engineering, hardware diagnostics and link-quality optimization.

Apr 2023 to Nov 2023Mars BPO

Mars BPO

Full stack software engineer

Built speech-AI assistants, conversational voice workflows, a multi-campaign CRM, and Django APIs serving React, Vite and Expo frontends.

EarlierFoundations

Electrical and systems foundations

Embedded, satellite, IT systems

Professional and academic work across satellite communications, Windows infrastructure, automation scripting, computer vision, FPGA image processing, and electrical and computer engineering.

The Develos ChronicleSection C, the recordPage 9

Product and interface

Next.js and React, with JavaScript, Tailwind, Vite and Expo.

Services and APIs

Python, Django and FastAPI, with DRF, Flask and REST.

Storage and state

PostgreSQL and Redis, with Supabase, Neo4j, DynamoDB and S3.

Telephony and voice AI

SIP and WebRTC, with Twilio, Telnyx, LiveKit, Deepgram, ElevenLabs and Vapi.

Cloud and delivery

AWS and Docker, with CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Ubuntu and Bash.

Infrastructure and monitoring

Zabbix and Cisco Meraki, with Kamailio, Drachtio, RTPengine, VICIdial and MAESTRO.

Learn the workflow first

Finance, telecom, SaaS, AI or infrastructure. The build starts with how the business actually operates, not with the framework.

Design across the boundaries

Frontend, APIs, data, integrations, deployment and observability need one coherent design, or the seams show up in production.

Build for the day after launch

Testing, CI/CD, monitoring, reliability and operational ownership are part of the system, not a phase that comes later.

The Develos ChronicleSection D, the toolboxPage 12

Full Stack Developer 101

End-to-end web application development, APIs, authentication and deployment.

Certification, verified

Python Django 101

Django, REST APIs, authentication, ORM and production practice.

Certification, verified

Asterisk Certified Essentials

PBX, IVR, SIP trunking, call routing and telephony operations.

Telephony, verified

OpenSIPS Training 3.2

SIP routing, load balancing, failover and real-time signalling operations.

VoIP, verified

PBXact Certified Essentials

IP PBX setup, call flows, endpoint management and day-to-day operations.

Platform, verified

Palm print recognition

Biometric authentication research using document-scanner imagery, Python and MATLAB.

Academic, second place, 2024

The Develos ChronicleSection E, honoursPage 14

Send the problem, not the job title

Product work, real-time systems, telephony infrastructure, or the monitoring layer that ties them together. Describe the workflow you need built and the constraints around it, and you will get a straight answer about whether it is a good fit.

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