About me
I am Imran Munawar, a senior full-stack developer and AI engineer in Lahore, Pakistan
Seven-plus years shipping production software for clients in the US, UK, Europe and Pakistan. I work directly with you: no account managers, no hand-offs, one developer who owns the backend, the frontend and the deployment.
- Location
- Lahore, Pakistan · PKT (UTC+5)
- Experience
- 7+ years in software development, the last two focused on AI assistants alongside full-stack work
- Availability
- Available for hourly and contract work, from $30/hour
- Languages
- English, Urdu
Most of my clients are small and mid-sized companies in the US, UK and Europe who need one senior person to own a product rather than a team to manage. I work during their mornings and my afternoons, and I keep the conversation in writing so decisions are easy to find later.
How I make decisions
Boring where it should be boring
PostgreSQL, typed APIs, migrations, a process manager. I reach for new tools when they remove a real problem, not because they are new.
Constraints in the database
If two bookings must never overlap, the database enforces it. Application code and prompts are second lines of defence, never the first.
Language models are components
They are excellent at conversation and terrible at arithmetic and policy. I give them narrow, typed tools and keep every decision that costs money in code.
Ship on the hardware you have
Several of my projects run on small shared servers. I build with memory caps, local builds and graceful restarts in mind, so hosting stays cheap.
Written down, or it did not happen
Scope, decisions, runbooks and environment templates live in the repository. Handover should not need me on a call.
Honest estimates
I say when something will take longer, when a feature is a bad idea, and when I am not the right person for the job.
Where the years went
2025 – now
AI assistants for WhatsApp and web chat: booking, ordering, sales and real-estate agents, and a multi-store RAG concierge for a UK client. Full-stack platforms for a gym, an outdoor-media company and a media-monitoring firm in Cyprus.
2022 – 2025
Full-stack product work for international clients: Laravel and NestJS backends, React and Next.js frontends, Shopify and WordPress builds for small businesses in the US and UK.
Earlier
Web development across PHP and JavaScript stacks, growing from feature work into owning whole products, their deployments and the client relationship.
What I work with
Frontend
- React
- Next.js
- Vue
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Vite
Backend
- Node.js
- NestJS
- Laravel / PHP
- REST & GraphQL APIs
- Queues (BullMQ)
Data
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Firebase
- Supabase
- Prisma / TypeORM
AI engineering
- Claude & OpenAI APIs
- RAG with pgvector
- Tool-calling agents
- Evaluation harnesses
- Guardrails & handoff
Integrations
- Stripe
- Shopify
- WhatsApp Cloud API
- Google Calendar
- Courier & payment APIs
Delivery
- Docker
- pm2 / systemd
- nginx / Caddy
- CI and migrations
- Playwright tests
Working with me, in practice
- Direct communication
- You talk to the person writing the code. Slack, WhatsApp or email, with a reply on the same working day.
- Scoped tasks
- Work is broken into tasks you can see and prioritise. Nothing large starts without a written scope.
- Progress you can inspect
- Deployed previews and short written updates, so you see the product rather than a status report.
- Maintainable handover
- Typed code, migrations, environment templates and runbooks. Another developer can pick it up without me.