Taha Naveed
Taha Naveed

Software Engineer | PostgreSQL Internals, AI and Backends

Open to offers · Member since 18 Oct 2026
Location
Islamabad, Pakistan
Desired salary
Unspecified
Work preference
Remote Only / Full Time
Experience level
Mid

About

Professional summary

I am a software engineer with around four years of experience building PostgreSQL-based graph databases in C and developing Python AI tooling around them. My work spans query planning, execution, indexing, security, bulk loading, database drivers, and backend integrations.

I am an Apache AGE committer and PMC member, a core developer for AgensGraph, and the lead author of agensgraph-python 2.0. I have contributed more than 180 merged pull requests and reviewed more than 290 contributions across the open-source ecosystem.

I specialize in PostgreSQL internals, including the planner and executor, memory contexts, COPY, row-level security, indexing, extension integration, and database upgrade and backup compatibility. I have delivered substantial performance improvements for graph traversal, deletion, and CSV ingestion workloads.

I also build AI and LLM infrastructure for graph databases. I have developed MCP servers, text-to-Cypher evaluation workflows, RAG integrations, LangChain and LangGraph adapters, LlamaIndex integrations, asynchronous database access, and secure LLM query execution patterns.

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Career history

Software Engineer SKAI Worldwide

Worked on AgensGraph core and AI systems remotely, improving PostgreSQL-based graph query execution, indexing, data loading, security, and backup/upgrade compatibility. Replaced sequential scans with B-tree index probes in path expansion, reducing a two-hop traversal on the 30.6M-edge Pokec graph from a timeout exceeding 20 seconds to approximately 6 ms warm.

Improved DETACH DELETE performance by approximately 30x in local tests, rebuilt CSV loading with PostgreSQL COPY and heap_multi_insert for 15–20% better performance, and implemented GQL query chaining, variable bindings, correlated Cypher subqueries, list comprehensions, native graph types, and default graph indexes.

Built AgensGraph AI integrations and MCP servers for Cypher, memory, and data modeling. Developed LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Cognee, and LightRAG adapters; implemented secure read-only LLM query execution; and created execution-graded text-to-Cypher evaluations that improved accuracy from 60% to 73%.

Committer and PMC Member Apache AGE

Served as an Apache AGE committer since 2023 and PMC member since 2025, contributing to the PostgreSQL graph database project. Reviewed more than 290 pull requests, merged more than 180 personal contributions, helped ship releases, and maintained CI across PostgreSQL versions.

Implemented and maintained functionality involving graph labels, pg_dump, pg_restore, pg_upgrade, constraints, row-level security, PostgreSQL extension functions, operators, planner and executor behavior, and graph query performance.

Co-founder / Software Developer Asteramind

Co-founded a software agency and led delivery for courier-aggregation and finance/tax applications.

Contributed to product development and backend implementation, supporting client application delivery from technical planning through implementation.

Education

Learning history

National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad

Bachelor of Software Engineering, Software Engineering

Completed a Bachelor of Software Engineering degree.

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