Hi, I'm Abdul, an independent product engineer. I help founders and teams turn AI prototypes into products that hold up.

Who I help

Founders and teams anywhere on the way from an idea to scale. Find where you are.

Idea
You have an idea and need an engineer to build the first version properly.
Build the first version
Prototype
AI tools got you a working demo, and now it fights every change you make.
Rescue the prototype
Live product
You have real users and need new features and integrations without breaking things.
Grow it safely
Scale
Your AI workflows have to be accurate, measurable and pass enterprise security review.
Get enterprise-ready

Case studies

Real projects, written up as the problem, what I did, and what changed.

An AI product that reads IRS and state tax notices and explains them in plain language. I built its document layer and I'm leading its SOC 2 Type II program.

Result Live and revenue-generating, with SOC 2 Type II in its observation window and an enterprise API in progress.

Case studyNext.jsAzure Document IntelligenceNeon Postgres

Deepn

A couples coaching app built by three AI tools in a row. I audited it, cut it down to the code actually in use, and rebuilt it as one clean, organized codebase.

Result One clean codebase, split into website, app and server, on a rebuilt database with optimized queries.

Case studyViteReactTailwind

myTpen

Nine apps for teachers that share one login and one data layer, so they work like a single product.

Result Nine shipped apps on shared infrastructure, an Android app on Google Play, and a marketing site that ranks first on Google for the brand name.

Case studyNext.jsshadcn/uiTailwind

IENA matching engine

A recommendation engine that suggests the best-fit applicants for each summer camp, using OpenAI embeddings, pgvector and GPT-4.

Result Automated recommendations with an explanation for each match, fully unit tested. The engine went live in production.

Case studyNestJSTypeScriptPostgreSQL

What I do

More detail

Build your first version

Take an idea from a rough brief to a launched product, with the unglamorous parts done right: login, payments, email, analytics, error tracking and hosting.

See Tax Notice Pilot, myTpen, NY Pedicab booking system

Rescue an AI-built prototype

Take over a codebase built by AI tools, cut what isn't used, fix the structure and the data model, and make it safe to change.

See Deepn, AI-built codebase audit checklist

AI workflows and integrations

Build the pipelines that read documents, extract data, match records and keep systems in sync, including systems with no public API.

See IENA matching engine, Tax Notice Pilot, TheCampStack SDKs, myTpen

Security and enterprise readiness

Get your product ready for enterprise security review: policies, technical controls, evidence and the SOC 2 process.

See SOC 2 readiness checklist for small software teams, Tax Notice Pilot

About me

Sometimes I'm the only engineer on a product, sometimes I lead the build alongside other developers. Either way I care about all of it: the data model, the payments, the deploy, and the docs someone else will read later. I've built for healthcare, education, real estate, summer camps and tax, and my university project, NotesGPT, was acquired by myTpen.

Based in Pakistan, working with clients worldwideLinkedIn GitHub