Aashir Javed
Compliance and risk infrastructure for crypto and private credit.
Senior Engineer, Identity Platform, MoonPay · London · me@aashir.net · aashir.net

Experience
- 2025 to now
MoonPay, London
Senior Engineer, Identity Platform. KYC, compliance, risk, authentication, authorisation, jurisdiction rules.
- 2024 to 2025
Motorway, London
Senior Engineer, Core Engineering. Auth split, Motorway Pro, 15% lower annual AWS cost.
- 2022 to 2024
Deliveroo, London
Software Engineer II, Customer Care. Agents in production, incident game days for 100+ engineers.
- 2021 to 2022
Zalando, Helsinki
Software Engineer, Fulfilment. Warehouse integration gateway at 1000+ requests a second, 15% lower latency.
- 2020 to 2021
Nordcloud, Helsinki
Cloud Developer. Moved a transport client off a PHP monolith across AWS, Azure and GCP.
- 2017 to 2019
CARE, Islamabad
Design Engineer. Industry 4.0 systems, secured MQTT, firmware updates under ISO 27001.
Selected work
- private
Kleido
Sanctions, PEP, company ownership and adverse media screening in one run. Nightly re-screening. Auditable case files and OFSI packs.
- private
ID Document Reader
Passports, licences, bank statements and chip reads, each field labelled with how it was verified. Runs with networking disabled.
- employer
Identity Platform, MoonPay
The systems that establish who a customer is, from sign in through KYC clearance: authentication, KYC tiers, risk scoring, sanctions screening, rules that change by jurisdiction.
- private
Magzi
Runs around the clock on WhatsApp and Telegram. Code it writes for itself is kept only when its own test passes. A supervisor turns production errors into repair tasks.
- verified
moonpay/skills
On-ramps, swaps, wallets and deposits for agent tooling. Contributor.
Skills
TypeScript, Go, Rust, Python. Cloudflare Workers, AWS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Terraform. KYC and KYB, sanctions and PEP screening, authentication and authorisation, rules engines, agents with retrieval, tool use and evaluation.
Education and awards
B.E. Computer Engineering, NUST. AWS Certified Developer. EIT Digital scholar. P@SHA ICT award.