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Hello, I’m
Aqib Javed
Senior Software Engineer
Islamabad, Pakistan
I design and build backend systems that stay fast, observable and boring — the good kind of boring — while the product around them keeps changing.
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- Fixed scope or retainer
- Reply within 1 business day
5.0 rating
from 24 clients
8+
years experience
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Client relationships
Almost every engagement runs past three months — clients keep the relationship open and come back with the next piece of work.
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Services
What I can help you build
Most engagements start as one of these, then narrow once we've looked at the codebase together.
Backend & APIs
01- REST & gRPC API design
- PostgreSQL schema and query tuning
- Event-driven and queue-backed workflows
- Auth, billing and multi-tenancy
Web Applications
02- Next.js App Router architecture
- Design-system-driven component libraries
- Accessibility and Core Web Vitals work
- Dashboards and internal tooling
Mobile Apps
03- React Native & Expo builds
- Offline-first sync and local storage
- Push notifications and deep links
- App Store and Play Store releases
WordPress & Shopify
04- Custom themes and page builders
- Shopify storefront and checkout work
- WooCommerce and payment gateways
- Speed, SEO and Core Web Vitals
AI & Automation
05- Chatbots and RAG over your own data
- OpenAI & Claude API integration
- Workflow automation and integrations
- Document parsing and data extraction
Cloud & DevOps
06- Terraform-managed AWS environments
- CI/CD pipelines with safe rollbacks
- Containerisation and autoscaling
- Logging, metrics and alerting
Selected work
Projects worth writing up
A slice of the last few years — each card opens a short case study.
Testimonials
What clients say
Feedback from the people who signed the invoices.
Aqib spent his first week reading our incident history instead of writing code, and the plan he came back with was the first one that named the actual problem. Reconciliation went from a nightly risk to something nobody thinks about.
Lena Vogt
VP Engineering, Ledger
We'd been told the only fix was a much bigger database. Aqib showed us it was a modelling problem, then shipped the fix incrementally so we were never one big-bang release away from disaster.
Omar Haddad
Chief Technology Officer, Atlas Logistics
Clear written updates every Friday, no surprises, and he pushed back on two things we asked for that would have cost us later. Rare to work with someone who treats your roadmap as seriously as his own scope.
Priya Raman
Head of Product, Northwind