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Available for new projects· Islamabad, UTC+5

Ibuildtheproduct.Youbuildthecompany.

Full stack engineer for startups. Web apps, AI features and payment systems, from the first schema to production. I shipped my own AI SaaS in six weeks, alone.

idea to live product, solo
6 weeksidea to live product, solo
products designed and built
5products designed and built
fleet vehicles on a data layer I built
300+fleet vehicles on a data layer I built
interns awarded a Certificate of Appreciation
1 of 45interns awarded a Certificate of Appreciation

Backed by and worked with

  • National Incubation Centre IslamabadLeague of Launchers S2
  • Frontier Works OrganizationBackend intern, 2025
  • Ufone (PTCL Group)Data intern, 2024
  • FAST NUCESB.S. Computer Science
  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • C#
  • ASP.NET Core
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Prisma
  • Claude API
  • Gemini
  • scikit-learn
  • Stripe
  • Shopify
  • Solidity
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Cloudflare
  • DigitalOcean
  • Clerk
  • Sentry
Services

What I can build for you.

  • Web apps and SaaS

    Your product from first screen to production: a Next.js and React front end on a FastAPI, .NET or Node back end, deployed and monitored.

    ParchiVisa: idea to live in six weeks
  • AI features

    LLM integration with guardrails: retrieval over your data, structured output, and rules the model can't override.

    How ParchiVisa keeps the LLM honest
  • Payments and integrations

    Stripe and Shopify with idempotency built in, so a retry can't double-charge and a missed webhook gets recovered.

    See Cascade
  • Backend and APIs

    REST APIs, PostgreSQL schemas and background jobs that hold up at peak load.

    See VehicleWatch
  • Rescue and speed-ups

    Slow reports, timeouts, flaky deploys. I once cut a reporting job from 30 minutes to under 1.

    The timeout story
Selected work

Five products. Honest labels.

Have something similar? Tell me

01Live product · Founder2026

ParchiVisa

An AI visa-readiness check for students. Designed, built and shipped alone in six weeks.

  • Four country engines: UK, Australia, Canada, USA
  • An LLM writes the report, fixed rules decide the verdict
  • Intake, scoring, PDF and payment live on one deploy
  • Selected for League of Launchers S2, NIC Islamabad
A ParchiVisa readiness report. The score is 61 out of 100, flagged at risk with 3 critical gaps. Below it, each check shows its status: financial evidence and course progression have problems, the offer letter is on file, the TB certificate is missing.
The readiness report, as it appears on parchivisa.app.

02Client project · Testnet

InfluencePay

Influencer deals where the budget sits in a smart contract, not in anyone's bank account.

  • Built end to end for a client, delivered and accepted
  • Campaign budget locked in escrow before work starts
  • Disputes hold the money until release or refund
  • Tier fees (1%, 1.5%, 3%) applied inside the contract
InfluencePay's landing page header, on a dark background with an orange glow. A badge reads Escrow-backed influencer marketing, above the headline Get paid on time, every time.
Landing page, cropped to its header. It runs on Ethereum Sepolia, a test network, so no real money moves.

03Personal project · Simulated2026

Cascade

A payments backend built around the failure cases. A timeout is not a decline.

  • A retry can never double-charge a customer
  • Missed Shopify webhooks are found and recovered
  • Over-refunds are blocked by the database itself
  • 45 tests in CI, against a real PostgreSQL
Cascade's operator dashboard, running on simulated data. The headline reads: over the past week Cascade handled 697 payments and approved 31,645.80 euros, which is 91.5 percent of everything that got an answer, and 2 payments are still waiting on a provider. An alert says 2 payments need a second look: the provider timed out, so the card may already be charged, and Cascade won't retry or reroute until you've asked what happened.
Operator dashboard on Cascade's built-in payment simulator. Payments and amounts are simulated.

04Sole engineer · Demo data

VehicleWatch

Fleet fault detection with no labelled data. It learns what normal looks like.

  • Scores every sensor reading every 2 seconds, under 100 ms
  • Two anomaly models that fail in different ways
  • Gemini turns each anomaly into a plain-English diagnosis
VehicleWatch's fleet overview, signed in to a demo account. Summary tiles show 5 of 5 vehicles online and 2 open alerts. A live map of London shows each vehicle as a dot coloured by its health score, with geofence circles. A failure forecast panel says no vehicle is trending toward a failure threshold.
Fleet overview, signed in to a demo account (Demo Logistics Ltd). The fleet shown is demo data. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

05Built, not yet deployed

Veriloom

Hiring by real work, with an AI interview that catches outsourced submissions.

  • Candidates submit real deliverables, an LLM grades them
  • A follow-up AI interview keyed to their own submission
  • A person sees both scores and makes the call
Veriloom's landing page. The headline reads Prove Your Skills, Get Hired Fairly. Below is an illustrated verified profile for a full-stack developer, with five verified skills and badges for verified, task-based and practical.
Veriloom's landing page. The profile on it is an illustration, not a real candidate.
Process

No surprises. Just shipping.

  1. 01

    Intro call

    15 or 30 minutes, your pick. You tell me the problem, I ask the awkward questions.

  2. 02

    Fixed-scope plan

    A written scope, milestones and a fixed price before any code.

  3. 03

    Progress you can click

    A live preview link from week one, updated as I build, plus a short written update every week.

  4. 04

    Yours from day one

    Code in your GitHub, apps in your cloud accounts, keys in your hands. If we part ways, nothing breaks.

  5. 05

    Supported after launch

    Two weeks of fixes after launch, included in the price quoted.

Remote

Remote, without the lag.

  • Your US working day, covered

    The whole day on the US East Coast and in Toronto, and the West Coast until 2 or 3 pm.

  • Afternoons in Europe and the Gulf

    From midday or early afternoon in the UK and Europe, and from mid-afternoon in Dubai and Riyadh.

  • Flexible when it matters

    These are core hours, not limits. Launch day, an incident or a deadline: I'm there when the work needs me.

  • You talk to the engineer

    No account manager in between. The person on the call writes the code.

My core hours, in your time

 
 

Core hours, not limits. For a launch, an incident or a deadline, I'm available when the work needs me.

Pakistan has no daylight saving, so these hours move by an hour in your time when your clocks change.

Your time

 

 

My time · Islamabad

 

 

 

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FAQ

Before you ask.

What does a first project look like?

Small and fixed in scope, so you can see how I work before committing to anything bigger. Scope: about one week of work. Price: quoted after the intro call, based on the scope.

Which time zones can you cover?

I work 5 pm to 3 am in Islamabad (UTC+5, no daylight saving). That covers the whole working day on the US East Coast and in Toronto, the West Coast until 2 or 3 pm, and afternoons and evenings in the UK, Europe and the Gulf. These are core hours, not limits: for a launch, an incident or a deadline, I'm available when the work needs me.

Can you add AI to our product?

Yes. ParchiVisa runs retrieval over official requirements into an LLM, and the verdict is computed by rules so a model failure can't change it. I've built with the Claude and Gemini APIs.

Can you work on our existing codebase?

Yes. I've worked inside production systems I didn't write: government fleet telemetry at Frontier Works and telecom data at Ufone. Cascade rehearses a Laravel payments system being rebuilt in .NET.

Is it just you?

Yes. One engineer who owns the whole thing, from the database schema to the deploy, and who is on the call.

Do you take full-time roles too?

Yes, remote, with startups. Here's my CV.

Contact

Have something to build?

Tell me what you're working on. You'll hear back from me, not a sales team.

Asad Amad Sheikh

Asad Amad Sheikh

Full Stack Engineer · Islamabad, Pakistan

Available for new projects

What are you building?

I read every message myself.