Full-Stack Engineer · Next.js · TypeScript · DevOps · Islamabad, Pakistan
I build production-ready web applications , the kind that handle real users, real load, and real deadlines. I've shipped full-stack products across the MERN and PERN stacks, leaned hard into Next.js and TypeScript, and gotten comfortable in the DevOps layer: CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud deployments on AWS. I've contributed merged PRs to projects like Joplin and Apache Polaris, won a hackathon building under a 6-hour deadline, and I'm currently building DevoraCamp: a tech learning platform.
I care about code that's maintainable six months later, not just code that ships today.
Won 3rd place at AUREX AI Hackathon , built in 6 hours at Bahria University, Islamabad.
Digitalized citizen-government interaction with civic request management, permit applications, and a real-time analytics dashboard. Designed, built, and deployed end-to-end within the hackathon window.
Next.js TypeScript Node.js Express PostgreSQL Prisma Zustand JWT
Real-time chat with horizontal scaling built in from the start. Redis handles presence and pub/sub fan-out. Kafka handles durable message streaming. Socket.io manages the client layer.
Node.js Next.js Socket.io Redis Apache Kafka ImageKit
→ GitHub
Full-stack Retrieval-Augmented Generation system. Built to solve the hallucination problem , the LLM only answers from what's in the documents, grounded by Qdrant vector search and Cohere embeddings.
Next.js Node.js Qdrant Vector DB Cohere Embeddings Clerk
Collects real Reddit comments via public API, runs sentiment labeling through Gemini/OpenAI, stores structured results in MongoDB, and surfaces product insights in a Next.js dashboard.
Next.js NextAuth MongoDB TypeScript Gemini API Reddit API
→ GitHub
Three production-grade pipelines I built from scratch:
| Project | Stack | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| CI/CD: Django on AWS EC2 | Jenkins · Docker · GitHub Webhooks | GitHub push → auto rebuild → zero-manual deploy |
| Container Orchestration | AWS ECS · ECR · Auto Scaling | Rolling deploys, health checks, CPU-based scale-out |
| Microservice Deployment | GitHub Actions · EC2 · PM2 · Nginx | Self-hosted runner, Nginx reverse proxy, production-ready |
I contribute to real projects, not just personal repos.
Joplin: open-source note-taking app (45k+ GitHub stars) Merged PRs: #14908 · #69 · #66
Apache Polaris: open catalog for Apache Iceberg Merged PRs: #151 · #136 · #115 · #114
DevoraCamp: a tech learning platform for developers. Curriculum, projects, structured learning paths.
const zohaib = {
writes: "code that future-me won't hate",
avoids: "over-engineering things that don't need it",
cares_about: "shipping > perfecting",
open_to: ["remote full-time", "freelance projects", "interesting problems"],
currently: "building DevoraCamp + MediRAG"
};If you have a project that needs a reliable full-stack engineer or you're hiring remote, I'd like to hear about it.
📧 zohaibirshad678@gmail.com 💼 linkedin.com/in/developerzohaib 💻 github.com/developerzohaib786