Umair Awan
Lahore, Pakistan · 18+ years

Technology leader building AI-native products and the teams behind them.

I'm Umair — CTO at ITBeam and founder of PITF. I turn complex business problems into scalable, intelligent systems: software architecture, cloud infrastructure, generative AI, agentic workflows, and the engineering organisations that ship them.

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Umair Awan
18+
Years in engineering
800+
Branches on MIS I built
CTO
ITBeam, since 2021
PITF
Founder, IT community
Clients & partners

Where I work at the intersection of tech, AI, business and people

01 — Expertise
A/

AI & Generative AI

LLM integration, AI chatbots and conversational UX, agentic workflows, RAG knowledge bases and enterprise search, AI automation inside existing web and mobile products.

B/

Architecture

Scalable web and mobile architecture, database design, API and web services (REST, SOAP, JSON), SaaS and product architecture, performance optimisation and system integration.

C/

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS across EC2, RDS, S3, Route 53, ElastiCache and load balancing. Apache and NGINX, Linux server configuration, deployment pipelines, tuning for scale.

D/

Engineering Leadership

Building and leading engineering teams, technical strategy and consulting, product and delivery management, mentoring, client and stakeholder management.

Selected impact — Akhuwat

Pakistan's first interest-free microfinance MIS, running in 800+ branches.

As Software Development Manager I led the team and in-house products: a centralised MIS, migration of decades of branch data, and integrations with banks and telcos for payment collection.

Centralised MIS across 800+ branches
Bank & telco payment integrations
Paperless mobile field operations
Dynamic reporting & BI dashboards
Nationwide rollout, training & adoption

Experience

02 — Track record
2021 — Present
Chief Technology Officer
Technology strategy, architecture and engineering leadership
ITBeam
2025 — Present
Founder
Pakistan Information Technology Forum — from new joiners to CXOs
PITF
2018 — Present
Web & Mobile Consultant
Independent consulting on architecture, AI and product delivery
UmairAwan.com
2024 — 2025
Solutions Architect Consultant
Sustainability & ESG technology platform
Spectreco
2022 — 2023
Microfinance Technology Consultant
Digital lending systems and process automation
GROWTECH Services
2017 — 2020
Software Development Manager
Led team and in-house products behind the interest-free microfinance MIS
Akhuwat
2015 — 2016
Technical Team Lead
Multi-project CRM delivery, ETL migrations, training and client management
Rolustech
2007 — 2015
Principal & Senior Software Engineer
Server-side and mobile technical leadership; web services and portals at scale
GenITeam · Econs
03 — Toolkit
Generative AI & LLMs RAG systems AI agents AWS System architecture PHP & MVC Web services & APIs Database design ETL & Pentaho SaaS platforms Linux & NGINX Team leadership
04 — Education
MS, Computer Software Engineering
FAST Lahore
2009 — 2010
BS, Computer Science
Virtual University
2002 — 2007
Visiting Lecturer, Computer Science
Three Star Girls College — VB, IT, DB, OS
2009 — 2011

Have a system to scale or an AI idea to ship?

Available for CTO advisory, architecture reviews, and AI product engagements. Tell me what you're building.

Email
umairawanpk@gmail.com
LinkedIn
in/umairawanpk
Phone
+92 321 450 0042