Hafiz Didarali — Lead Software Engineer & UX/UI Designer
Lead software engineer at Burendo.
About
Hafiz Didarali is a Lead Software Engineer based in Leicester and London, UK. He builds cloud-native platforms, full-stack web applications and AI systems for organisations across government, healthcare, defence and pharma.
He currently leads a cloud-native AWS HPC platform for national genomic surveillance at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) through Burendo. Previously he architected an agentic AI and RAG platform used by the U.S. FDA at Bold Science, led a Content Disarm & Reconstruction platform processing millions of files a day for NATO and Five Eyes customers at Glasswall, and delivered global products for Jaguar Land Rover and EDF Energy at Deloitte.
His work spans React and TypeScript on the front end, Python, Node.js and microservices on the back end, and AWS, Terraform and Kubernetes in the cloud — with a strong UX and UI design sensibility throughout.
Work
Lead Software Engineer @UKHSA via Burendo
Led a cloud-native AWS HPC platform for national genomic surveillance at UKHSA, migrating 140TB of on-premise data to cloud. Achieved 82% cost reduction through Terraform IaC, Kubernetes pipeline optimisation, and large-scale data processing tuning.
Senior Software Engineer @Bold Science
Built a scientific communication platform used by the U.S. FDA, serving 200 concurrent users for clients including AstraZeneca, Novartis, and Pfizer. Architected an agentic AI system for pharmaceutical content generation using RAG pipelines, pgvector, FastAPI, and AWS SageMaker.
Lead Software Engineer @Glasswall
Led architecture of a file ingest orchestration UI and CDR microservices platform processing 4.4M+ files/day for NATO, Five Eyes, and AUKUS customers. Built a React/Electron offline desktop CDR app deployed to 4+ US government agencies, managing an offshore team with 200+ Playwright E2E tests.
Senior Software Engineer @Forest Rock Systems
Developed N4EnergyManager, an IoT energy analytics platform with real-time D3.js visualisations across buildings, data centres, and manufacturing facilities. Built Alarm Manager, a retail alarm system processing 7 million alarms/year for Asda, M&S, and John Lewis across thousands of locations.
Software Engineer @Deloitte (Keytree)
Built the Case Service module for Jaguar Land Rover's global CRM platform, serving 2,600+ retail centres across 100+ countries. Developed the EDF Energy React Native mobile app for ~2 million users, with secure authentication and real-time consumption tracking.
Full Stack JS Developer @Blonk · SuperFastPixels · Greenroom
Delivered MVP-to-production products at Blonk SAAS, SuperFastPixels, and Greenroom using React, Meteor, Node.js, and MongoDB. Designed a recruitment web app at Blonk that helped the startup raise EUR 200k in investment.