Nine years, mostly on call

Jul - Aug 2026

Personal · Personal project

EMSDOC

Solo Developer

Customs documentation SaaS: supplier invoice PDFs become Dubai Customs filings. Built solo in two weeks.

• Hybrid PHP→Python pipeline: PyMuPDF in a persistent Unix-socket daemon, cutting 200–400ms per request on a tiny VPS.
• Dual LLM extraction engines at temperature 0 with token-aware chunking, result merging, and an audit log of every step.
• Stripe-metered subscriptions in AED, WebAuthn passkeys, 207 Pest tests, 62 commits in two weeks.

Jul 2026

Personal · Personal project

screen.io

Solo Developer

Cross-platform desktop activity tracker: Python, FastAPI, PySide6, Vue 3. Built in about two weeks.

• Learned a new language ecosystem to production quality: layered architecture, protocol-based OS adapters, manual dependency injection.
• Shipped 243+ tests with strict mypy, ruff, and vue-tsc: more automated testing than most client projects ever budget for.
• Set up a 4-platform GitHub Actions matrix (macOS ARM64/Intel, Linux, Windows) with PyInstaller packaging and tagged releases.

Jun 2022 - May 2026

Freelance · US · remote from Pakistan

Jase Medical

Founding Engineer

First developer on a telehealth platform. Solo for 1.5 years, then a team of four. 85,000+ orders and 76,000+ new patients in 2025.

• Rebuilt a JotForm + PHP prototype into four Laravel/Vue codebases sharing one schema, without taking the live business down.
• Designed a configurable allergy-substitution engine: staff define contraindication rules, the system swaps unsafe medications during intake.
• Replaced manual prescription handling with an automated pipeline routing orders to two telemedicine networks and a pharmacy system.
• Integrated identity verification (Vouched) with no sandbox; every test ran against the production API.
• Ran the AWS infrastructure alone for the first 1.5 years: EC2, SSL, security groups, deploys.

Feb - Sep 2020

Freelance · US · remote from Pakistan

Visionerro & FlexSited

Solo Developer & Architect

Two complete SaaS platforms designed, built, and launched in eight months.

• Automated database-per-tenant provisioning: signup triggers an atomic create → migrate → seed → admin pipeline.
• Implemented Stripe Connect as a payment facilitator. Tenants process their own clients’ billing under their own accounts.
• Built tenant-scoped real-time chat and notifications over Pusher, with WebSocket channel auth verifying tenant identity.
• Shipped a six-stage self-serve onboarding wizard with server-side plan enforcement for a non-technical audience.

Apr 2019 - present

Freelance · US · remote from Pakistan

QCS

Solo Developer & Architect

DOT compliance SaaS for 3,406 fleet companies. Architecture, development, deploys, servers, support. One person, seven years.

• Designed a five-guard authentication system separating super admins, their teams, company admins, company teams, and multi-company agents.
• Modeled employee and order lifecycles as explicit state machines with full audit-trail history tables.
• Integrated Stripe at three levels: subscriptions, per-order charges, one-time fees. Reconciled through webhooks.
• Built FMCSA Clearinghouse queries and MVR consent flows with e-signatures and state-specific pricing.
• Migrating the legacy Blade/Vue 2 frontend to Inertia + Vue 3 page by page, on a live system.

Nov 2016 - Jan 2020

Full-time · Lahore, Pakistan

Al-Burraq Technologies

Full-Stack Developer

First job, taken in my fourth semester. Frontend work grew into full-stack ownership; led two to three developers in the final year.

• Built the backend and live dashboard for a kids’ dance competition: judges scored on iPads, scores synced live into a dynamically rendered knockout bracket.
• Progressed from cutting responsive pages to owning features end to end, including production deployments.
• Mentored junior developers while reporting directly to the CEO in the final two years.