Open to senior full-stack & AI product roles

Muhammad Hammad Ahmad · Senior Full-Stack Engineer · Building AI-powered products

7+ years shipping production web platforms. Now building AI-powered products on top of that.

React/Next.js and Node.js/NestJS across telecom, government, SaaS, and e-learning. Since early 2026, building AI products end to end — RAG, guardrails, evaluation, and the product surfaces around them. Creator of InstantBot.

Lahore, Pakistan

Muhammad Hammad Ahmad

About

Two tracks, one engineer

Years of production web engineering, and the AI product work now built on top of it.

7+

Years in production

Full-stack, web platforms to AI products

4M+

Production users, single platform

Lebara telecom · 5 countries (DE, UK, NL, DK, FR)

4

Revenue-generating products

Lebara, Educative, Aqari, Zerodocs · millions in monthly transactions combined

2

AI products I created and built

InstantBot Knowledge Assistant and Document Scout · validated internally

Web platforms

7+ years

Production React / Next.js front-ends and Node.js / NestJS services on PostgreSQL and Redis, from architecture to deployment.

  • Aqari · ADRES Sharjah

    Government real-estate portal across web and native apps: 20 workflows built from scratch, webviews, event tracking, and Jest

  • Lebara

    Telecom platform for 4M+ users in 5 countries: Redis caching, a brute-force rate limiter, and App Insights-driven bug fixes

  • Afiniti

    Contact-center platform where I led 3 microservices, cutting setup from 5 minutes to under 1 and raising test coverage from 0% to 80%

  • Zerodocs

    Document collaboration SaaS I built from scratch and ran in production as the sole developer, from features to incident fixes

  • Educative.io

    Learning platform used by 1M+ developers, where my SSR, caching, and SEO work lifted Lighthouse above 80 on every metric

See experience

AI-powered products

Since 2026

AI products built end to end in Python and Node.js: RAG retrieval on pgvector, LLM grounding and guardrails, agents and MCP, and evaluation.

  • InstantBot

    Two AI products I created: Knowledge Assistant and Document Scout

  • Knowledge Assistant

    Grounded, citation-backed answers on web chat, widget, and WhatsApp

  • Document Scout

    LLM screening with source-quoted verification, used by HR for CVs

  • Multi-tenant core

    Row-level security, rate limits, and per-tenant quotas across three channels

  • Evaluation loop

    Framework tracking recall, MRR, hit@k, and latency

Read the case study

Core stack

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • PostgreSQL

Current focus

since 2026

AI-powered productssince 2026

  • RAG
  • Agentic AI
  • Python
  • Guardrails
  • MCP
  • pgvector
  • LLMs
  • Evals

How I work

  • I own delivery end to end: web, mobile, and backend.
  • Remote-first and async across time zones. I have worked with teams in the UAE, Europe, and the US.
  • I ship with tests, docs, and monitoring, not just features.

Featured product · Mar 2026 – Present

InstantBot

AI knowledge assistant & document intelligence suite

Multi-tenant AI suite with two products built end to end: Knowledge Assistant turns a company's documents into a grounded, citation-backed assistant across web chat, an embeddable widget, and WhatsApp; Document Scout screens and ranks documents against requirements with source-quoted verification. Validated internally, with HR using Document Scout to screen CVs.

Knowledge Assistant

Ask questions over company documents and get grounded answers with citations — on web chat, an embeddable widget, and WhatsApp.

Document Scout

Give it requirements and a set of documents; it extracts fields, verifies them with quoted sources, and returns an explainable ranked shortlist.

Read the case study

Work

Success stories

More products I built or led, and the one result each is known for.

See all projects
  1. Aqari: Government real-estate portal for ADRES Sharjah

    Nextbridge FZE · Oct 2024 – Present

    Aqari

    Government real-estate portal for ADRES Sharjah

    Tenancy contracts, power of attorney, and request tracking for Sharjah residents, on the web and inside the ADRES iOS and Android apps. I own the frontend across all three.

    Own the frontend across web, iOS, and Android: 20 of its 29 workflows built from scratch, plus the native bridge, analytics, and releases.

  2. Lebara: Telecom platform for 4M+ users across five countries

    Confiz · Feb 2023 – Sep 2024

    Lebara

    Telecom platform for 4M+ users across five countries

    Plans, top-ups, usage, and payments for Lebara customers in Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, and France, under spikes of millions of requests within seconds.

    Full-stack features across the platform, including Redis caching that took the dashboard from 7–10 seconds to under 3 and a rate limiter that stopped brute-force attacks.

    Live site

    Screens in the image are illustrative, not customer data.

  3. Mega Cloud: Self-serve contact-center product on microservices

    Afiniti · Jan 2022 – Feb 2023

    Mega Cloud

    Self-serve contact-center product on microservices

    A contact center a customer sets up alone: queues, phone numbers, billing, and their own branding. I led three of its microservices end to end.

    Led three microservices end to end, with setup time cut from 5 minutes to under 1 and test coverage raised from 0% to 80%.

    Internal product, no longer publicly available.

  4. Zerodocs: Construction document collaboration SaaS

    Nextbridge Pvt Ltd · Sep 2020 – Dec 2021

    Zerodocs

    Construction document collaboration SaaS

    Project specs, bulk document uploads, controlled sharing, and chat for construction teams.

    I built it from scratch and ran it in production as the sole developer: features, bugs, and incidents included.

  5. Educative.io: Interactive learning platform for 1M+ developers

    Educative · Jul 2019 – Aug 2020

    Educative.io

    Interactive learning platform for 1M+ developers

    Hands-on courses in a browser-based editor. I worked on the core product's rendering, SEO, and accessibility.

    Rendering, caching, SEO, and accessibility work on the core product that lifted Lighthouse above 80 on every metric.

Career

Work experience

Roles across government, telecom, SaaS, and e-learning.

  1. Senior Software Engineer (Contract) · Nextbridge FZE

    Oct 2024 – PresentCurrent

    Aqari — ADRES Sharjah real-estate digital services portal

    • Built 20 of the portal's real-estate workflows from scratch on a 200k+ line Next.js and TypeScript codebase, and own its releases and production support.
    • Took over iOS and Android delivery: built the typed web-to-native webview bridge and now ship native releases alongside web.
    • Built a dynamic event-tracking layer on GA4 and the Jest test setup, hardened the shared API client, and introduced an AI-assisted code-generation workflow wired to Jira and Figma.
    Next.js 14React 18TypeScriptRedux ToolkitMaterial UIGA4
  2. Senior Software Engineer · Confiz

    Feb 2023 – Sep 2024

    Lebara — telecom platform, 4M+ users across Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, and France

    • Cut the dashboard's data load from 7–10 seconds to under 3 by caching slow-changing data in Redis, on a platform serving 4M+ users and absorbing spikes of millions of requests within seconds.
    • Stopped brute-force attacks with a custom Redis-backed rate limiter and reCAPTCHA v3.
    • Ranked production errors by frequency with Azure App Insights queries and fixed the most frequent ones first, then built the usage analytics and event logging on top of it.
    ReactReduxGraphQLNode.jsTypeScriptAEMAdyenJest
  3. Senior Software Engineer · Afiniti

    Jan 2022 – Feb 2023

    Mega — contact-center product on microservices

    • Led three microservices end to end (billing, auto-configuration, storefront): REST APIs, Swagger docs, database design, and their front-ends.
    • Cut auto-configuration setup from 5 minutes to under 1 (over 80% faster) and raised unit test coverage from 0% to 80%.
    • Built call-centre white-labelling (primary and secondary colours and logos applied site-wide) and led a team of four through reviews, demos, sprint planning, and containerised deployments.
    NestJSNext.jsPostgreSQLTypeORMTypeScriptMaterial UIStripe
  4. Software Engineer · Nextbridge Pvt Ltd

    Sep 2020 – Dec 2021

    • Zerodocs: built the SPA from scratch and shipped it to production as the sole developer, then owned features, bugs, and production incidents alone.
    • Delivered auth, bulk file management, collaboration, chat, and parallel bulk uploads to AWS S3.
    • Valorx: built a Chrome extension bringing Salesforce data into AG Grid with spreadsheet-style editing, bulk updates, and versioning.
    ReactTypeScriptAWS S3AG GridSalesforceBootstrap
  5. Software Engineer · Educative Inc

    Jul 2019 – Aug 2020

    Educative.io

    • Lifted Lighthouse scores above 80 on every metric through server-side rendering, fewer re-renders, and page caching with invalidation on data change.
    • Added structured data for SEO and accessibility fixes across a product used by 1M+ developers.
    • Contributed to the React-to-Next.js migration and raised unit test coverage to 80%.
    Next.jsReactMaterial UIReduxTypeScriptJest

Stack

Tools I ship with

Frameworks, platforms, and AI tooling I use to build and run production software.

Frontend & UI

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Redux
  • Material UI
  • React Hook Form
  • Figma
  • Google Analytics

Backend, data & infra

  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • Express
  • GraphQL
  • REST
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Supabase
  • TypeORM
  • Python
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Vercel
  • Stripe
  • Adyen
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Jira
  • Swagger

AI / LLM

Current focus
  • RAG
  • LLMs
  • Agents
  • Tool calling
  • MCP
  • Prompt engineering
  • Embeddings
  • Hybrid search
  • Reranking
  • Guardrails
  • LLM evaluation
  • Structured outputs
  • Gemini
  • Groq
  • pgvector

Education

BS (Hons.) Computer Science

Punjab University (PUCIT), Lahore

2015 – 2019 · CGPA 3.89

  • Silver medalist

Let's build something together.

Need a senior full-stack engineer, an AI feature inside your product, or an AI product built end to end? I do all three.