Full-Stack + AI Engineer · Open Source Contributor

Muhammad Junaid Shaukat

Full-stack + AI engineer building products end-to-end and contributing to open-source projects that matter. Active contributor to Apache Beam, Apache Airflow, and Archestra AI. Working across backend systems, AI tooling, and infrastructure.

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Experience

Google Summer of Code Contributor

Apache Software Foundation — Apache Beam · Remote

May – Aug 2026 · ~175 hrs

Accepted into Google Summer of Code 2026 with the ASF to build a portable Kafka Streams runner for Apache Beam. The runner translates Beam pipeline protos into Kafka Streams topologies and targets the Fn API, so pipelines authored in any Beam SDK can execute on this backend from day one. Delivered as an embedded library so teams already on Kafka can adopt Beam’s unified model without standing up a separate runner cluster.

›Portable execution backend: Beam protos → Kafka Streams topologies
›Fn API–oriented design for multi-SDK support (Java, Python, Go, TypeScript)
›Core primitives: Read, stateless ParDo, GroupByKey, Combine, non-merging windows, Flatten
›Exactly-once processing via Kafka transactions

GSoC 2026 project

AI Reasoning Engineer

Turing · Remote

Jul – Dec 2025

Designed complex mathematical and algorithmic challenges to train large language models. Developed production-grade C/C++ solutions with detailed time and space complexity analysis.

Freelance Software Developer

Self-employed · Remote

2024 – 2025

Built scalable backend systems using Node.js, Express, Python, and PostgreSQL. Deployed applications on AWS infrastructure — EC2, S3, RDS.

Open Source

InsForge

— Backend-as-a-Service platform · 6 merged PRs

›Built custom OAuth provider feature end-to-end: schema, OIDC, PKCE, token exchange, dashboard UI #859
›Added custom OAuth provider support to JavaScript SDK JS #54
›Added custom OAuth provider support to Swift SDK Swift #16
›Added custom OAuth provider support to Kotlin SDK Kotlin #14
›Implemented missing PostgREST query operators (OR, NOT, contains, textSearch, range, count) Kotlin #12
›Added CI test pipeline with split unit/integration tests and release workflow enforcement Kotlin #10

Apache Beam

— Distributed data processing · 8.5k stars

›Fixed type checking failure with Python 3.10+ union pipe syntax #37645
›Added LRU cache eviction to CombinePerKeyPrecombineOperator #37466
›Added filter() method to PCollection in TypeScript SDK #37408
›Implemented LRU cache eviction for CachingStateProvider #37214
›Made TypeScript test reporter optional #37182

Archestra AI

— AI agent platform · 3.6k stars

›Added DeepSeek LLM provider support #2930
›Fixed K8s Service name compliance with 63-char DNS label limit #2841
›Added Perplexity AI LLM provider support #2467
›Added Mistral AI LLM provider support #2250
›Added Cerebras LLM provider support #1862

Apache Airflow

— Workflow automation platform

›Fixed user creation bug in FAB Auth Manager #60015
›Hid Groups field from User edit form in FAB Auth Manager #60019
›Added E2E tests for Asset Details UI #59939

Other Contributions

webpack

— Module bundler · 65k stars

›Added config case coverage for electron-main and electron-preload targets #20630
›Refactored propertyAccess and propertyName into unified property module #20582