$ whoami
> muhammad-aqib — remote full-stack / backend engineer
$ cat focus.txt
> production APIs, queues & integrations
> PostgreSQL, Redis, Laravel, Node.js
> debugging systems under real traffic
$ cat principles.txt
> Learn → Build → Break → Fix → Document
> reliability over features
> maintainable code over clever code
$ ./status.sh
> ● open to remote full-stack / backend roles| 🧱 Backend Systems | 🖥️ Full-Stack Products | 🚀 Production & Infra |
|---|---|---|
| APIs, auth, queues and integrations that stay reliable — not just endpoints that work on localhost. | End-to-end products from database to dashboard, with the backend doing the heavy lifting. | Docker, CI/CD, AWS and Linux deployments — plus the debugging when something breaks at 2am. |
| Layer | Core |
|---|---|
| Backend & APIs | Laravel, PHP, Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs, JWT, Laravel Sanctum, queues / async processing |
| Frontend | React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, Material UI, Vite |
| Data & Caching | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis |
| Infra & Tools | AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM), Docker, CI/CD, Linux, Bash, nginx, Apache, Git, Postman, PHPUnit |
Currently deepening, hands-on: AWS VPC / Route 53 / CloudFront / ALB / CloudWatch / Secrets Manager · Terraform · Kubernetes & Helm · Prometheus · Python / Django
| Role | Period | What I worked on |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer — TurboDebt | Mar 2023 – Oct 2026 | Production Laravel / PHP systems processing leads from multiple media partners. PostgreSQL on AWS RDS, Redis and queues, Ubuntu EC2 + nginx, Docker dev environments. Salesforce integrations, lead ingestion via TrustedForm and Jornaya, and workflows with Iterable, Ytel and Apten. Production debugging, stability and performance work; used Docker and GitLab CI/CD to streamline development and deployment workflows. |
| 🏆 Award of Excellence | — | Presented by Operations Manager Amir Hussain. |
A backend-heavy platform built to prove real engineering, not just screens: secure auth, roles & permissions, real-time updates, background jobs and a production-style architecture.
- Backend: Laravel, PostgreSQL, Redis, Laravel Sanctum, Spatie Permission, Laravel Reverb, Laravel Horizon, PHPUnit
- Admin: React (Vite, Material UI)
- Customer app: React Native (Expo, TypeScript, Expo Router, NativeWind, Zustand, TanStack Query)
A log-ingestion service for small teams that can't justify a Sentry/Datadog budget yet: send it logs over HTTP and it surfaces what matters — errors suddenly spiking, or brand-new errors appearing for the first time — with transparent rules you can read and tune. No black-box model, no vendor lock-in.
- Engineering: log fingerprinting (normalization + hashing, scoped per service); detection as a pure function of stored events — unit-tested without a database, in-memory store for dev/tests
🌐 mrpythonist.com — live
My personal portfolio site, running in production: hand-built with PHP, semantic HTML and vanilla CSS/JS — no frameworks, no build step, no database. SEO-structured with sitemap, Open Graph and JSON-LD, verified in Google Search Console.
- Engineering: clean URLs via .htaccess, hardened contact form (CSRF, honeypot, rate limiting), deployed on LiteSpeed shared hosting
Cloud / DevOps roadmap, in order — not a badge collection:
Linux & Networking → Docker & CI/CD → AWS → Terraform → Observability → Kubernetes & Helm
Plus: stronger system design and fundamentals, and meaningful open-source contributions on the Next.js / Node.js track.
“I build scalable systems that solve real problems and grow with businesses.”