Full-Stack Software Engineer & Solutions Architect · Islamabad, Pakistan
Requirements, system design, backend, frontend, data, AI, QA, deployment and monitoring: one senior engineer who owns the whole lifecycle, on whatever stack fits. Five years shipping production systems, from Saudi ministry platforms to AI products.
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A live demo of one thing I build: LLM guardrails. Type your own prompt and watch it get screened.
5+
years shipping production systems
20+
products shipped to production
2
national platforms for KSA ministries
12h
from first call to a fixed quote
Selected work
Platforms, products and internal tools, each one started as a business problem, not a tech stack. Here's what was broken and what I shipped.
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End-to-end delivery
Most projects stall in the hand-offs between analyst, architect, developers, QA and DevOps. I cover every stage myself, so nothing gets lost between them and you have one person accountable for the result.
01 / 06 · Requirements
I work with you and your users to pin down what's slow, manual or broken, what success looks like, and what's out of scope.
What I do
You get
Architecture
Because I work across requirements, backend, frontend, data, AI, QA and DevOps, I design the whole system, not one layer of it: the right tools for your team, built to hold up as usage grows.
A typical system I design · hover a component
AI service · LLM agents, retrieval and tool calls, wrapped in guardrails that screen prompts and outputs and log every decision.
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I start from the bottleneck in your business, not from a favourite framework. Backend, frontend, data or AI, I pick tools your team can run and maintain, and work in the stack you already have when that's the sensible call.
02
Architecture that's written down before it's built: components, data flow, failure modes, trade-offs and a cost model. I designed and wrote a System Design course at Educative, and I use the same thinking on client work.
03
Systems that keep working when traffic, data or team size grows. Queues and idempotent workers, streaming and batch pipelines, caching, and backpressure, so one slow dependency can't take down everything else.
04
Tested, containerised and shipped through CI/CD on AWS, Azure or GCP, with logs, metrics and alerts from day one. Global finalist in the Huawei ICT Competition (Cloud Track), Azure AZ-900 and AI-900 certified.
Skills
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AI agents · Shipped in 3 systems: Command Center, Love Staffing, Kliploop
Services
From a five-day prototype to a full product build. Every engagement starts with a 20-minute call and a written, fixed-price scope within 12 hours.
Start here
$750
5 days
A working prototype of your idea in five days: a web app, an API, an integration or an AI feature, on your own data. The fee is credited if we continue to a full build.
Low-risk way to test an idea before you commit
Talk about thisBuild
from $3,000
2–3 weeks
An AI phone agent for screening, intake, booking or follow-up, connected to your CRM or calendar.
Built on the stack behind Love Staffing AI
Talk about thisFlagship
from $5,000
3–4 weeks
One screen for money, pipeline and risk, with agents that draft approvals, follow-ups and content, built on the tools you already use.
The system running a landscaping & construction firm
Talk about thisOngoing
from $3,500/mo
3-month minimum
A senior engineer embedded in your team across backend, frontend, data, AI and DevOps, while you hire or instead of hiring.
5+ years across 10Pearls, AZM and CodeCross
Talk about thisEnd to end
$8–20K · 6–12 weeks
Your MVP, platform or internal tool, taken from requirements to production by one engineer: system design, backend, frontend, data and AI, automated tests, CI/CD, cloud deployment and monitoring.
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Book a reviewHow I work
You describe the problem. I show you the closest thing I've built. We decide if there's a fit.
A one-page proposal with scope, timeline and a fixed price. No hourly surprises.
You see working software every week, not status reports. Course-correct early.
Deployed with CI/CD and monitoring in your accounts, with code and docs, plus 30 days of bug-fix support.
About
I'm Muhammad Usman Malik, a full-stack software engineer and solutions architect in Islamabad. I've spent five years shipping production systems: national platforms for Saudi Arabia's Ministries of Health and Justice, an LLM-powered legal assistant, and the products I co-founded at Grootcore.
I'm a problem solver first. I gather requirements, design the system, build the backend, frontend, data and AI pieces, test it, deploy it and monitor it, in whatever stack fits. Day to day I build LLM guardrails at 10Pearls; for clients I ship MVPs, platforms, internal tools and AI products that hold up in production, not just in a demo.
Your mornings are my evenings if you're in the US. I share the working day with the UK and keep the same hours as the Gulf.
Also co-founder & lead engineer at Grootcore Systems · Azure AZ-900, AI-900
10Pearls
Mar 2026 – now
Senior Software Consultant · Backend + AI
FAQ
No. AI is one of my strengths, but most of my work is full-stack product engineering: web apps, APIs, data pipelines, payments, integrations and the cloud infrastructure underneath. I add AI where it earns its place, not by default.
Yes. I gather requirements, design the system, build the backend, frontend, data and AI pieces, write the tests, set up CI/CD and cloud hosting, and monitor it after launch. For larger builds I can bring in a designer or extra engineers and lead them.
Whatever fits the problem and your team. Most often Python (Django, FastAPI), Node.js and TypeScript, React, Next.js and Vue, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis, Docker and Kubernetes, on AWS, Azure or GCP. If you already have a stack, I work in it.
Fixed price for a fixed scope, agreed before work starts. Retainers are a flat monthly fee for a set number of hours. Projects are 50% upfront and 50% on handover.
I work your mornings when you're in the US (my evenings), overlap most of the day with the UK, and keep the same hours as the Gulf. Updates are async and daily, with a live demo every week.
You do. Intellectual property transfers to you on final payment, and everything is deployed to your own accounts.
Whatever fits the job and your constraints: Claude, GPT, open-source models, or a mix. I'll explain the trade-offs in cost, latency and privacy before we choose.
Yes. I regularly join existing codebases, follow your conventions and review process, and hand over cleanly when the work is done.
Bank wire or Payoneer, invoiced in USD at each milestone.
Tell me about the problem. You'll get a reply within one business day with what's possible, what it costs and how long it takes, whether or not we work together.
Prefer to talk?