Hi, I'm
Izma Anwar.
Senior .NET Engineer
Senior backend engineer with 7+ years building enterprise systems across Legal Tech, Agriculture, and E-Commerce. I architect microservices, document processing pipelines, and cloud-native APIs with .NET Core and C# — shipped across platforms trusted by Microsoft, Citi, Credit Suisse, and Cargill.
Tech Stack
Core Stack
- C# Expert
- ASP.NET / ASP.NET Core Expert
- Entity Framework Core Expert
- REST / Web APIs Expert
- GraphQL Proficient
- OAuth2 / JWT · Okta · AWS Cognito Proficient
Frontend
- HTML5 / CSS3 Expert
- JavaScript Expert
- Angular Proficient
- Blazor Proficient
- TypeScript Proficient
- Bootstrap / Razor Proficient
Cloud & Infrastructure
- AWS (EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS) Proficient
- Azure (App Service, Functions, Service Bus) Proficient
- Docker Proficient
- Kubernetes / AWS EKS Proficient
- GitHub Actions Proficient
- CI/CD Pipelines Proficient
Architecture & Patterns
- Microservices Expert
- Clean Architecture Expert
- Event-Driven Expert
- SOLID Principles Expert
- CQRS Proficient
- Domain-Driven Design Proficient
Databases & Messaging
- SQL Server Expert
- PostgreSQL Proficient
- MySQL Proficient
- Redis Proficient
- RabbitMQ Proficient
- AWS Redshift Familiar
Tools & Testing
- xUnit · Integration Testing · Code Coverage Proficient
- Postman / Swagger (E2E API Testing) Proficient
- SonarQube (Code Quality) Proficient
- Serilog · NLog · Log4Net Proficient
- OpenTelemetry · App Insights · CloudWatch Proficient
- Azure DevOps / Jenkins Proficient
Where I've Worked
Senior Software Engineer @ Folio3
January 2023 – Present
Folio3 — a US-headquartered software consultancy delivering enterprise platforms for Fortune 500 clients across agriculture, e-commerce, and supply chain
- Secured enterprise APIs for the Cargill platform by integrating Okta OAuth2/OIDC for SSO, implementing JWT-based authorization and role-based access control across microservices serving multinational enterprise users.
- Cut system response time by 35% and eliminated redundant database calls across multiple applications by architecting a shared Redis Cache layer for Admin app data.
- Decreased debugging time by 30% by configuring OpenTelemetry with Azure Monitor for distributed tracing and structured logging across microservices.
- Reduced deployment manual effort by 70% by building fully automated build, test, and release pipelines in Azure DevOps, enabling zero-touch continuous delivery.
- Achieved 90% improvement in code maintainability by integrating SonarQube static analysis into Jenkins pipelines, establishing quality gates that blocked sub-standard code from reaching production.
- Designed a hybrid data architecture with PostgreSQL for transactional workloads and AWS Redshift for analytics pipelines, supporting livestock data across multiple countries and processing large-scale farm operations data for a Fortune 500 agricultural client.
- Served as technical lead across 3 concurrent enterprise client projects — owning architecture decisions, conducting code reviews, and aligning engineering delivery with client stakeholders in US time zones.
Senior Software Engineer @ Rolustech
2019 – 2023
Rolustech — a US-based software consultancy; served as Founding Backend Engineer for LexCheck (legal tech SaaS, $17M Series A)
- Architected and built the core backend of LexCheck from the ground up using .NET Core, Clean Architecture, and event-driven microservices — secured with AWS Cognito OAuth2/OIDC authentication and scaled to serve 50+ enterprise clients including Microsoft, Credit Suisse, and Citi.
- Eliminated manual contract data extraction for enterprise legal teams by engineering a Document Parsing Engine (ANTLR + OpenXML SDK) that automatically structured Word/PDF contracts into processable data.
- Improved system scalability by 30% and reduced response times by migrating 420+ APIs from ASP.NET MVC 4.8 to .NET 6 microservices with clean service boundaries.
- Improved email delivery reliability by 80% by migrating from MailKit to MailGun, and improved system stability under load by 50% by implementing Polly retry and circuit-breaker policies.
- Delivered real-time contract status notifications to legal teams by integrating SignalR for push-based dashboard updates, replacing polling and improving user experience.
- Rebuilt the client-side Angular application with reactive forms, RxJS observables, and modular architecture — reducing UI complexity and improving performance for enterprise legal workflows.
- Grew from backend contributor to engineering lead over 4 years — mentored junior engineers, drove technical interviews, and delivered platform sub-products that directly supported LexCheck's $17M Series A funding round led by Mayfield Fund.
Featured Projects
LexCheck
Founding Backend Engineer on LexCheck's AI-powered contract review platform — scaled from zero to 50+ enterprise clients including Microsoft, Credit Suisse, Citi, NetApp, Koch, and Tata over 4 years. Built the document parsing engine (ANTLR + OpenXML), playbook rule engines, automated review workflows, and event-driven microservices that power legal teams' ability to process contracts in hours instead of days.
- .NET Core
- Microservices
- ANTLR
- Parsing Engine
- Angular
- RabbitMQ
- AWS Cloud
- MySQL
- MailGun
- CI/CD Pipelines
- GitHub Actions
Cargill Private / Enterprise
Engineered a global livestock analytics and farm management platform for Cargill (Fortune 500), supporting dairy operations across multiple countries and multilingual environments. Owned the cloud-native microservices layer on .NET 8 / AWS EKS, integrated Okta OAuth2/OIDC for enterprise SSO, and designed a hybrid data architecture — PostgreSQL + AWS Redshift — reducing operational reporting latency by 30%.
- C#
- .NET 8
- ASP.NET Core
- EF Core
- Clean Architecture
- CQRS
- PostgreSQL
- AWS Redshift
- AWS EKS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Azure DevOps
- OpenTelemetry
- SonarQube
Agri Beef Private / Enterprise
Owned full-stack development of an enterprise livestock management platform for Agri Beef, one of the largest US beef producers, supporting cattle operations across multiple US farm locations. Boosted platform performance by 35% via Redis caching, cut post-deployment incidents by 85% through integration test suites, and achieved 90% code maintainability improvement using SonarQube quality gates.
- .NET Core
- Blazor
- Redis
- Azure DevOps
- SonarQube
- SQL Server
- CI/CD
Snake River Farms
Eliminated manual supply chain reconciliation for Snake River Farms by engineering a real-time integration engine automating Shopify ↔ Microsoft Dynamics AX (ERP) sync across orders, inventory, and 3PL fulfillment. Achieved 60% faster data throughput, 85% reduction in manual effort, and 99.9% data accuracy using fault-tolerant .NET Core Worker Services and parallel batch processing.
- C#
- .NET Core
- GraphQL
- Worker Services
- Shopify API
- MS Dynamics AX
- SQL Server
- Batch Processing
- Azure
- 3PL Integration
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Punjab University College of Information Technology (PUCIT)
Lahore, Pakistan
Intermediate in Computer Science
Punjab Group of Colleges
Sahiwal, Pakistan
Peer Recommendations
6 verified LinkedIn recommendations · engineers & leads across the US, Spain & Russia
I had the pleasure of working with Izma at LexCheck. Her dedication to delivering the best product was evident from our very first meeting. She is very attentive to details and works hard to achieve the desired result. I would highly recommend working with her — she would be a great addition to any development team.
It was a pleasure to work with Izma. Even though our time as colleagues was brief, I was consistently impressed by her skills as a software developer. She is genuinely talented, contributed effectively to our projects, and her experience on C# backend was a very valuable asset. She would be a great addition to any team.
Izma was a pleasure to work with because of her resourcefulness as a software developer and her positive spirit as a teammate. She was a key contributor to our development of software that enabled legal teams to reduce negotiation time through smart dashboards and automated contract editing. I would be happy to work with Izma again!
I had the pleasure of working with Izma at LexCheck. Her dedication to delivering the best product was evident from our very first meeting. She is very attentive to details and works hard to achieve the desired result. I would highly recommend working with her — she would be a great addition to any development team.
It was a pleasure to work with Izma. Even though our time as colleagues was brief, I was consistently impressed by her skills as a software developer. She is genuinely talented, contributed effectively to our projects, and her experience on C# backend was a very valuable asset. She would be a great addition to any team.
Izma was a pleasure to work with because of her resourcefulness as a software developer and her positive spirit as a teammate. She was a key contributor to our development of software that enabled legal teams to reduce negotiation time through smart dashboards and automated contract editing. I would be happy to work with Izma again!
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