Lead full stack engineer — Laravel · Rails · TypeScript/Next.js · AWS — based in Lahore, working worldwide. 7+ years shipping for clients in the US, UK, and Ireland.
$ grep -c "rescued" career.log
3 # locked-out AWS server · broken search engine · leaked API keys
$ systemctl status usman
● active (running) — open to lead & senior roles| Project | What happened | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| LyfeTymes | Owner locked out of production, Stripe & SendGrid keys leaked, product dead. Restored server access via EBS volume surgery, rotated every credential, rebuilt the platform from scratch as technical partner. 2,000%+ revenue growth to profitability in 6 months — before any marketing. 25,000+ families served. | Laravel · Vue · AWS · Stripe |
| The Chalet Edit | Search was fully broken on a luxury ski platform featured in Tatler, The Telegraph & The Times. Rebuilt it from scratch — heavy faceting, currency conversion computed in-query at the DB layer, availability logic like "consecutively free for two 7-day sessions." Multi-second → ~1 second. | Laravel · Livewire · Alpine.js · MySQL |
| Aviary Platform | AV archive used by Yale & other research libraries. Took over a 10-year veteran's full role within 4 months. Led Solr 7→9 and Rails 5→7 upgrades; built field-level search authorization at the index layer; cut timeout-prone queries to ~1s. | Ruby on Rails · Apache Solr |
| Superviral | Complete vanilla-PHP-to-Laravel rebuild in 2 months as architecture lead. Pixel-identical frontend, fully re-engineered backend, seamless cutover. | Laravel · MySQL |
| APC Buddy | AI-powered RICS interview prep, built solo end to end: OpenAI question generation, mock interviews, Stripe subscriptions, admin panel with live prompt control. | Laravel · OpenAI API · Stripe |
| Quartrly | Marketplace for paid 15-min video calls (in development). Full Stripe Express money movement: payments, refunds, manual payouts, Stripe↔Mongo transaction sync. | MERN · Stripe Express |
Backend — Laravel · Livewire · Ruby on Rails · Node.js/Express · REST APIs Frontend — TypeScript · Next.js · React · Vue 2/3 · Alpine.js Data & search — MySQL · MongoDB · Redis · Apache Solr · query optimization Cloud & DevOps — AWS (EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3) · DigitalOcean · Docker · Linux · Nginx · CI/CD · security hardening Payments & APIs — Stripe (Connect, Express, subscriptions) · OpenAI · OAuth · SendGrid
I use AI-assisted development to move fast — with the architectural understanding to know exactly what every line does.
- 🤝 Technical partner at LyfeTymes — sole owner of all technical decisions
- 👥 Leading a team of two associate developers
- 💼 Open to lead & senior full stack roles — remote or on-site
Email: usmanjzcn@gmail.com · LinkedIn: usman-javaid · Portfolio: https://usmanlhrpk.github.io/UsmanLhrPk
Have a production fire, a rebuild, or a lead role in mind? My favourite projects are the ones everyone else gave up on.