Helsinki · AI and product engineering

Hashir Salam

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8+ years shipping e-commerce and fintech products, now building with AI agents.

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Which payment providers have you integrated?

I've integrated Apple Pay Web, Adyen, Checkout.com, Klarna, Affirm and Afterpay into the frontend and middleware flows for Level Shoes.

Previously at Level Shoes, Careem Pay, VentureDive and AbbVie

Experience

Nov 2022 – Jul 2026 · Dubai, UAE
Senior Software Engineer, Chalhoub Group
Led the Magento-to-Next.js frontend migration using React, App Router and server-side rendering, integrating backend services through Vapor (Swift) middleware APIs.
Jul 2021 – Sep 2022 · Dubai, UAE
Software Engineer, Careem Pay
Built a merchant payment gateway with Next.js and React, supporting integrations across the MENA region.
Oct 2020 – Jun 2021
Software Engineer, VentureDive
Built and launched responsive web applications using React, Redux, TypeScript and styled-components.
Jun 2018 – Sep 2020
Full-stack Engineer, AbbVie
Developed enterprise workflow applications with Angular and TypeScript, including leave automation, document approval and medical-equipment approval workflows.

Priced Right?
Built Python scraping, data collection and pandas preprocessing for a second-hand iPhone asking-price project, collecting 2,178 Tori.fi listings and cleaning 2,007 for analysis.
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Self-hosted AI agent setups
Set up and ran self-hosted AI agent harnesses (OpenClaw, Hermes Agent) with local LLMs (Ollama, oMLX, Qwen), configuring skills, scheduled jobs and approval gates on tool execution.
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Homelab automation with AI agents
Automated server monitoring (uptime, disk, containers), maintenance and updates on a personal homelab with AI agents (Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent), requiring approval before updates run.
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2026-08 – Present
MSc Data Science
University of Helsinki
2014 – 2018
BSc Computer Science
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)