sarib.dev
Open to staff & senior engineering roles · Remote / NYC

Sarib
Mahmood.

software engineer / brooklyn, ny

Hi, I'm Sarib — a software engineer with 10+ years of full-stack experience. I co-founded Vie at Highlight, where we're building AI tools that let anyone create apps and games in plain English.

Before that I led the team behind Highlight's NFT marketplace, scaled real-time systems to 100K+ events/min, and spent five years as Technical Lead at JoeZoo.

Currently

Vie.

Co-Founder · Highlight · Mar 2025 — Present
vie.dev vie.game AI agents

An AI-powered platform for natural-language app and game creation. Born as a strategic pivot from our NFT marketplace, Vie pairs an isolated sandbox per user session with an agentic workflow — specialized subagents handle code generation, blockchain integration, deployment orchestration, and game physics/theming.

If you can describe it, you can ship it.

Selected work

A few things I'm proud of — production systems, side projects, and the occasional weekend obsession.

Mar 2025
— Present

Co-Founder, Vie

Highlight · Brooklyn, NY
  • Co-founded Vie as a strategic pivot from Highlight's NFT marketplace — AI-powered natural-language app & game creation.
  • Designed Vie's container architecture with isolated sandbox environments provisioned per user session, later repurposed to power vie.game.
  • Built an AI agentic workflow with specialized subagents for code generation, blockchain integration, deployment, and game physics/theming.
Dec 2021
— Mar 2025

Engineering Lead, NFT Marketplace

Highlight · Brooklyn, NY
  • Architected and deployed the marketplace using an event-driven Kafka architecture processing 100K+ events per minute at peak.
  • Built a real-time activity streaming system across 13+ blockchain networks with sub-second latency.
  • Built the core generative engine powering unique NFT collections across the Highlight ecosystem.
Jan 2017
— Nov 2021

Technical Lead, Engineering

JoeZoo · Toronto, ON
  • Migrated Core API services from a monolith to reactive microservices on Spring WebFlux as the userbase grew to 50k MAU (5M+ users total).
  • Orchestrated Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, cutting deployment time by 80%.
  • Built a Python-based NLP service for automated grading of student submissions, reducing teacher workload.
  • Implemented an event pipeline using queues and serverless functions to stream tracking events to the data warehouse.
Jan 2015
— Nov 2016

Software Engineer

Frag Games · Lahore, Pakistan
  • Implemented a Dynamic Question Rating algorithm to simplify question entry for teachers on the gaming platform.
  • Upgraded networking channels between game servers, cutting monthly network costs from $1,000+ to $100–$200.
2010
— 2014

B.S. Computer Science

National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences · Lahore, Pakistan

Stack & tools

The kit I reach for. Comfortable across the stack, but happiest in distributed systems and DX.

Languages
TypeScript Python JavaScript Java Groovy C++ Solidity Rust HTML & CSS
Frameworks
Node.js React Next.js Spring WebFlux Tauri
Infrastructure
Kubernetes AWS (EKS) Kafka Docker Serverless Cloudflare Workers
Blockchain
Solidity EVM chains ERC-721 ERC-1155

Let's talk.

I'm open to staff & senior engineering roles. Always happy to chat about AI agents, real-time systems, or the messy realities of taking 0→1 products to production.