Fullstack engineer · Head of development
Next.js on the front, NestJS and PostgreSQL behind it, Terraform and Ansible underneath. Twenty projects live and clickable. Based in Dubai.
Most of what I do is one person carrying a project the whole way: Next.js on the front, NestJS and PostgreSQL behind it, Terraform and Ansible underneath, GitLab CI holding it together. I like the parts other people hand off. Servers, DNS, TLS, backups that have actually been restored from rather than just written to.
I lead development at Dragon Farm, run the technical side of Investcare 2000 in the UK, and act as the outsourced IT function for a DFSA-regulated firm in the DIFC.
one person, end to end
Done means verified: tests green, deploy smoked, backups actually restored. A 17-minute measured restore beats a promise.
One person from DNS to CSS token. Fewer handoffs, fewer places for a project to die.
Architecture logs with numbered decisions, runbooks with rollback paths, README files a client can read.
DFSA rulebook work taught me to raise the uncomfortable question early, in writing, before it is found by someone else.
One migration, measured
Dragon Farm moved off managed AWS onto three servers I own, in 2025.
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Site for a game studio, plus the Google Play compliance pages its Monkey Escape title needed. Two mini-games written by hand: a DOM whack-a-mole and a canvas runner, without one animation library.
Studio site built around a 24-step quiz that prices a project deterministically and renders the estimate to PDF in the browser, with a 26-module NestJS backend behind it.
Single-page sale of NFT node licences with a whitelist relayed to Telegram. The original made the build itself dial Telegram; the rewrite is pollingless, with a documented rate limit.
Custom fullpage engine on Next 16 replacing the library: slides move on translate3d and switch only once their inner content has been scrolled to the edge. Across 141 files the largest is exactly 100 lines.
A 2022 Gulp site rebuilt line by line with three runtime dependencies in total: next, react and react-dom. Assets went from 52 MB to 2.4 MB, and the legacy icon font became 18 hand-checked SVG components.
Marketing site and lead funnel for a 12-villa complex. Every section reads its copy from a config beside the component, so all four routes survived the backend dying and still render without a single request.
A 2023 Gulp, SCSS and PHP site for a buy-now-pay-later platform rewritten on Next 16: assets from 43 MB to 707 KB, map pins from a fitted projection, and 146 legal clauses with every accordion deleted.
Telegram Mini App farming game rebuilt across four repositories and moved off AWS onto Hetzner with seven minutes of downtime. The restore drill is measured: 17 minutes from zero.
B2B platform for a UK veterinary reagent distributor: six locales written by hand without an i18n library, and the live infrastructure imported into Terraform to a zero-change plan.
Bilingual site for a financial consultant working between the DIFC and Turkey. The whole contour is in code, from Docker and Nginx to Cloudflare and the server, with a 1,052-line log of 40 numbered decisions.
Landing page of a B2B wholesale price aggregator. A 69 MB Figma export holding 2,465 conic-gradient elements was rasterised into roughly 1 MB of WebP, and the dependency tree went from 40 packages to 5.
A 14-section token portal whose supply routes are prerendered statically, because the aggregators read the body rather than running JavaScript. The restoration moved an OpenSea key out of the client bundle.
Investor-relations site for a discontinued Web 3.0 venture, its lost 2024 content rebuilt from a database dump and Wayback snapshots into 99 rows, every recovered string verified byte for byte against the fallback.
A tutor's site where every string, price and SEO tag is editable. Twenty NestJS modules expose the same five verbs, so the admin panel drives every entity through one table and one form.
Publisher-acquisition landing carrying a full-viewport React Three Fiber canvas driven by shaders written by hand, with all five routes still statically prerendered and the single runtime request optional.
Car body-parts storefront recovered from a company that had shut down, made runnable without its API. The responsive rebuild was verified at 20 pages by 15 widths with five assertions each.
Wholesale tyre storefront with its own CMS, built around CSV imports of the dealer's spreadsheets: four column maps turn an export into filters and items, and faceted search is a SQL join. 24 modules, 19 migrations.
A drag-and-drop geography game: 17 country cards onto their capitals on a hand-drawn Middle East map held in 1.36 MB of inline SVG, so the drop zones live in the artwork's own coordinate space and scale losslessly.
Control system for a 4DX attraction: a kiosk console and a Socket.IO service streaming telemetry to an Arduino, with an emergency stop that lands inside one 100 ms frame.
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