Hi, I’m Abdul
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Full stack and AI engineer. Twelve years of shipping products in TypeScript, React and Node. Started in Lahore, now building from Kouvola, Finland.
I started in 2014 at Live Admins in Lahore, growing from frontend work to backend PHP to leading a support engineering team. Then four years independent, building for clients abroad, end to end.
- United States
- Kuwait
- Australia
Details
- TryRyda in Kuwait, my longest engagement: e-commerce for local businesses and restaurants in React and PHP, with Stripe, PayPal and regional gateways.
- An employee monitoring tool for a US client, with a companion calling app on Twilio.
- Brand websites for Food Fit Love in Australia and the film studio Dovetale Media.
- In 2022 at Software Alliance: a driving school system on AWS serverless, and a DeFi exchange in Solidity.
ReactPHPNodeStripeTwilioAWS
I led full stack development of a dual-product ESG investment analytics platform used by institutional asset managers, across the frontend, backend and data layers.
- Fund screener
- Company screener
- Portfolio hub
- Compliance reporting
- Climate hub
- Stewardship vault
Details
- Full English and Chinese localisation across every module, with no language regressions.
- A custom MCP server that opens the internal database to AI tools, plus Claude Code skills for the whole stack.
- The data path from Trino and MySQL through Spring Boot and NestJS to React, cached with SWR and React Query.
Next.jsTypeScriptNestJSSpring BootTrinoMCP SDK
APIs and services for a blockchain platform built on Polkadot and Substrate.
- Contract compiled
- Transaction sent
- Gas optimised
- Block confirmed
Details
- NestJS and Express APIs for smart contract compilation, RPC, transactions, confirmations and gas optimisation.
- Rust services on Substrate and the Rocket framework, and Solana smart contracts.
- A Web3 trading bot that simulates exchange activity for testing, with telemetry in MongoDB to predict node performance.
RustSubstrateSolanaNestJSWeb3MongoDB
I built an LLM-powered security scanning GitHub App from scratch with Claude Code. It reviews every pull request and runs across an organisation of hundreds of engineers.
- Reading the diff
- Tracing data flow
- Checking for secrets
- Posting review
Details
- An open-ended brief taken to a working system, with test coverage and a rollout plan.
- On the side: an AI smart contract builder on the Claude API that writes Anchor contracts, reads its own compile errors and retries until the build passes.
Claude CodeClaude APITypeScriptPythonGitHub Apps
MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management at LUT University.
Available for work in Finland and remote.
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