# Muhammad Furqan

Full-stack engineer, fifteen years in.

I take web and mobile products from concept to deployment. Lately I build AI-first — LLM
integration, MCP servers and inference running on the edge.

- **Location:** Karachi, Pakistan (UTC+5), remote worldwide
- **Email:** hello@furqan.codes
- **Website:** https://furqan.codes
- **Status:** available for new work

## Selected work

### Hamara Hisaab
Self-hosted household finance ledger — budgets, qarz, zakat and a portfolio with PSX & MUFAP
price tracking. API-first, so every feature is usable by AI agents over MCP or REST.
Next.js / Postgres / MCP.
GitHub: https://github.com/Furqankhanzada/hamara-hisaab

### SuqyaTech
Delivery management for an RO water plant, built on PayloadCMS — customers, deliveries and
billing, running a real business today. PayloadCMS / MongoDB.
GitHub: https://github.com/Furqankhanzada/water-plant

### ExploreBTK
React Native directory app for discovering places, in production on Android and iOS.
React Native / Expo.
Live: https://explorebtk.com · GitHub: https://github.com/Furqankhanzada/BTK-Finder

### Flutter eCommerce UI Kit
Open-source Flutter e-commerce UI kit, 476 stars and still in use. Flutter / open source.
GitHub: https://github.com/Furqankhanzada/flutter_eCommerce_ui_kit

## Experience

| Role | Period | Context |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lead Software Engineer · AppIQ Technologies | 2025 — 2026 | Ad-tech · UK · Remote |
| Freelance Software Engineer · Upwork | 2010 — Present | Top Rated |
| Senior React Developer · Polymail.io | 2024 | Remote · Contract |
| Senior React Developer → Full-Stack Engineer · YAS.life | 2021 — 2023 | Health-tech · Remote |
| Founder & Lead Developer · ExploreBTK | 2020 — 2023 | Part-time |
| Full-Stack Engineer · Morning Builder Technologies | 2019 — 2021 | Full-time |
| Founder · AppBakerZ (Pvt.) Ltd. | 2013 — 2018 | Karachi |
| Full-Stack Engineer · ndARTS.CA | 2011 — 2013 | Full-time |

**Lead Software Engineer · AppIQ Technologies (2025 — 2026).** Sole technical decision-maker at
an ad-tech startup (May 2025 – July 2026): React and Node with a PayloadCMS backend, a Cloudflare
Workers/Queues/KV edge stack, and Parquet-on-R2 pipelines queried with ClickHouse.

**Freelance Software Engineer · Upwork (2010 — Present).** 100% job success across 65 contracts
and 8,960 billed hours — full-stack SaaS and mobile products, lately AI-enabled features and
ad-tech.

**Senior React Developer · Polymail.io (2024).** Shaped the product concept with stakeholders and
delivered a working MVP inside the contract window.

**Senior React Developer → Full-Stack Engineer · YAS.life (2021 — 2023).** Migrated a large React
Native codebase from REST/Redux to TypeScript and Apollo GraphQL, architected multi-tenancy across
the platform.

**Founder & Lead Developer · ExploreBTK (2020 — 2023).** Built and launched a React Native
directory app for Bahria Town Karachi — architecture, iOS/Android, deployment and upkeep.

**Full-Stack Engineer · Morning Builder Technologies (2019 — 2021).** Led a small team shipping new
features, with technical guidance and code review.

**Founder · AppBakerZ (Pvt.) Ltd. (2013 — 2018).** Ran a software services company delivering web
and mobile applications, managing clients and a team across concurrent projects.

**Full-Stack Engineer · ndARTS.CA (2011 — 2013).** Led frontend for client web projects; built
WordPress themes, plugins and jQuery components.

## Stack

- **Languages:** JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP
- **Frameworks:** React, React Native, Next.js, Expo, NestJS
- **AI:** Claude Code, LLM integration, MCP, ML pipelines
- **Data:** Postgres, MongoDB, MySQL, ClickHouse
- **Infrastructure:** Linux, Docker, AWS, Cloudflare, GitHub Actions
- **Interfaces & testing:** Tailwind, shadcn/ui, GraphQL, Playwright, Vitest

## Education

BS Computer Science, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences & Technology — 2011–2015, Karachi.

## How I work

Remote and end-to-end: a rough idea to a deployed product, and I stay for the unglamorous parts —
billing, ops, monitoring.

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/Furqankhanzada
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/muhammad-furqan-khanzada
- X: https://x.com/Furqankhanzada1
- Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/fl/muhammadf447