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About
Engineering leadership meets AI-native delivery
AstraCloud Labs is the consultancy vehicle of Mohammed Khalid, a Principal Engineer and Tech Lead with 11+ years of experience delivering production-grade platforms across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and modern backend architectures. Our current focus is AI agent systems and LLM-powered products, combining deep engineering rigour with practical leadership to ship reliable, measurable outcomes.
AI Agent Systems
Tool-using agents, RAG workflows, orchestration layers, and evaluation pipelines that deliver quality at scale.
Cloud Architecture
Production systems on AWS and GCP with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and a focus on latency and uptime.
Platform Engineering
End-to-end distributed systems design with event-driven architectures, microservices, and contract-first APIs.
Security & Compliance
RBAC, audit trails, PII minimisation, GDPR alignment, and guardrail patterns for safety and controllability.
Services
What we deliver
AI Agent Systems & LLM Products
We design and build end-to-end agentic architectures: tool-using agents, retrieval-augmented workflows, orchestration layers, and evaluation pipelines. From offline eval strategies and benchmark design to guardrail patterns for safety, reliability, and controllability.
Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps
Production systems using CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes/Helm (EKS), Terraform, AWS SAM, and CloudFormation across AWS and GCP. Strong focus on latency, uptime, cost efficiency, and FinOps practices including request batching, caching, and model-tier optimisation.
Platform & Backend Engineering
Full-stack platform delivery in TypeScript (NestJS/Express), Python (FastAPI/Flask/Django), Golang, and Java (Spring Boot). Event-driven architectures, contract-first APIs, microservices, and multi-tenancy with tenant-aware identity propagation and isolation controls.
Case Studies
Projects we have delivered
From AI-powered learning platforms to FinTech acquisitions, we bring senior engineering leadership and hands-on delivery to every engagement.
AI-Powered English Learning at Scale
Architected AiBC, an AI-powered English learning platform enabling millions of learners worldwide with real-time feedback. Designed agentic tutoring workflows, tool-using LLM orchestration, reasoning-model execution paths, and a full evaluation/experimentation platform.
Revolutionising Government Forms for the Digital Age
Built the Digital Express Toolkit (DxT) to transform paper-based government forms into accessible, compliant online services handling 14 million+ transactions annually.
Serverless Admin Platform for Global Insurer
Built a serverless backend with AWS Lambda and Python, automating Slack channel provisioning and governance for global teams. Implemented RBAC, Terraform IaC, and real-time event monitoring.
Graph-Powered Recommendation Engine
Orchestrated backend development of a standalone API serving three frontends and a mobile app. Built a sophisticated recommendation engine using Neo4j graph queries, GCP Workflows, and BigQuery data pipelines.
Hybrid Workplace Insights Platform
Spearheaded the Hybrid Future survey platform launched to 10,000+ participants. Transformed Figma designs into a responsive Next.js frontend with a NestJS backend, Prisma ORM, and AWS CloudFormation deployments.
FinTech Platform Acquisition & Bank Onboarding
Led transition to event-driven architecture using BullMQ for sale to NCR. Developed microservices for webhooks, auth callbacks, and payment integration with Plaid. Onboarded National Bank of Scotland as first client.
Modernising 34 High-Traffic Media Sites
Spearheaded transformation of 34 websites into Next.js frontends decoupled from WordPress. Built event-driven architecture with RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, and a GraphQL intermediary layer.
MACH-Powered E-commerce for UK Tourism
Developed BFF layers in NestJS within a MACH architecture, built React and Vue frontends for VisitBritainShop, and deployed AWS Lambda functions for the serverless microservices backend.
Internal CRM & Analytics Modernisation
Led refactoring of internal admin and analytics dashboards. Implemented OAuth/JWT authentication, developed automated Node.js applications on scheduled builds, and improved overall CRM performance.
Technology
Our engineering toolkit
Languages
Backend Frameworks
Frontend
AI / ML
Cloud & Infrastructure
Data & Databases
Observability & CI/CD
Our People
World-class talent from leading institutions
Our engineers and consultants are graduates of some of the best universities in the world, including UCL, York, Imperial, and Cambridge. They bring deep academic foundations in computer science, mathematics, and engineering, combined with years of hands-on delivery at enterprise scale. Every engagement is staffed with senior-level practitioners who have shipped production systems across AI, cloud, and distributed platforms.