Abdul SamadLahore, Pakistan10 yearsAvailable

I build backends,the servers theyrun on, and thehardware they talk to.

Backend systems, Linux infrastructure, and hardware that has to work in someone's house. Ten years of it — most recently as a senior engineer at Droidor, and before that running my own studio.

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About

I like the parts of a product that have to keep working when nobody is watching.

Ten years of shipping: Python and Node backends, self-hosted infrastructure I run myself, and ESP32 firmware for devices that keep working when the internet does not. I founded Digilog Softwares and led its team; today I build AI-driven products and backend systems at Droidor, and take on freelance and contract work on the side.

That span is deliberate. A device in someone's house, the API it talks to, the server that API runs on and the dashboard someone opens in the morning are one system — and most bugs worth finding live in the seams between them. I'd rather own the whole seam.

years building software

projects shipped

services self-hosted in production

Right now

Senior Software Engineer at Droidor — AI products and Python backends
Taking freelance and contract work alongside it
Learning offensive security, mostly to break my own setups first

Skills

Six areas, one stack I can carry a project across alone.

Listed in the order I reach for them. Everything here is something I've shipped with, not read about.

Backend & APIs

Where most of my hours go

Python
FastAPI
Node.js
TypeScript
Express
PostgreSQL
SQLite
Redis
Alembic
REST API design
Auth & tokens
PHP / MySQL

Frontend & mobile

Interfaces I ship myself

React
Next.js
Vite
Tailwind CSS
Redux
React Query
PWAs
Flutter
FlutterFlow
Bubble

Infrastructure & DevOps

Servers I actually run

Linux
Docker
nginx
GitHub Actions
Cloudflare
FRP tunnels
Tailscale
Authelia SSO
systemd
ZFS
Backups & monitoring

AI & automation

Current work at Droidor

LLM pipelines
Agentic bots
Embeddings & graph retrieval
Crawling at scale
Claude & Gemini APIs
n8n
Workflow automation

Embedded & IoT

Ten years of soldering irons

ESP32 / ESP8266
PlatformIO
MQTT / EMQX
Modbus
OTA firmware
Sensors & relays
Solar & inverter control
Hardware prototyping

Commerce

Shops that take real money

Shopify GraphQL
Shopify POS
WooCommerce
WordPress
Inventory sync
Purchase orders
Payment integrations

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Experience

Ten years, four places, one through-line.

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Droidor

Nov 2025 — Present

Senior Software Engineer

AI-driven products and the Python services behind them: LLM pipelines, agentic bots, and data processing that has to survive real traffic.

Build and run Python backend services — LLM pipelines, crawling and embedding workloads, graph-backed retrieval.
Design agent architectures and chat-mode agentic systems for product intelligence and customer engagement.
Work across the stack and the team: backend, frontend, QA and release management rather than one lane.

Python
FastAPI
LLM pipelines
Graph DB
WebSocket
Docker

Digilog Softwares

Sep 2024 — Sep 2025

Founder & Software Engineer

Founded and ran a software studio — sales, delivery, and the hardest half of the code — shipping web, mobile, AI, eCommerce and IoT work for clients.

Owned the whole business: client acquisition, scoping, project management, delivery and accounts.
Led and mentored developers as project lead, keeping deliverables on time without dropping quality.
Directed AI and workflow-automation work, and built the commerce platform the parts business still runs on.

Python
React
Shopify GraphQL
WordPress
n8n
Team lead

Alt Ventures

Jul 2021 — Sep 2023

Senior Software Developer

Prototype-to-production app work for a venture studio: Jiye, Creato and DealCart went from idea to Play Store under tight timelines.

Built and scaled web and mobile apps with Bubble and FlutterFlow — prototypes through to production releases.
Wrote the backend behind them: workflows, cloud functions, APIs, analytics and payment integrations.
Shipped and maintained Play Store releases, and supported stakeholders hands-on after launch.

FlutterFlow
Bubble
Firebase
Cloud Functions
Play Store

Digilog Electronics

Jan 2018 — Dec 2020

Senior System Software Engineer

Where the Linux and systems half of my work comes from — servers, eCommerce platforms, and automation for a working electronics business.

Administered Linux servers and application deployments with an eye on performance and security.
Built custom eCommerce features on Shopify and WordPress with PHP, JavaScript and MySQL.
Automated business processes with VBA and Google Apps Script, and led internal projects end to end.

Linux
PHP
MySQL
Shopify
WordPress
Apps Script

Personal projects

Things I built for myself, then kept running in production.

Every one of these is live on my own servers and used daily — which is a harder test than a demo.

01In production

SmartIoT

An IoT platform where the devices don't need the cloud

9: device firmwares
4: clients: web, mobile, local HTTP, MQTT

ESP32
PlatformIO
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
EMQX / MQTT

Read the case study→

02In production

WhatsApp Gateway

One WhatsApp connection, many services, per-chat permissions

88k+: messages stored
7: services sharing one session

Node.js
TypeScript
Baileys
Express 5
better-sqlite3

Read the case study→

03In production

Self-hosted homelab

A home server reachable from anywhere, without opening a port

12+: services in production
2: machines, one tunnel

Linux
Docker
nginx
FRP
Tailscale

Read the case study→

04Live

Health Tracker

A gym app that knows what set you're on

2: rewrites to get the architecture right
100%: of API calls network-only by design

FastAPI
SQLAlchemy
Alembic
SQLite
React

Read the case study→

05Live

Notebook

The habits, hobbies, films and recipes app I kept wanting

4: modules shipped
1: app instead of five

FastAPI
SQLite
React
Vite
TypeScript

Read the case study→

06Live

Task App

Replacing a 13-container project manager with one I'd use

13 → 2: containers
10: volumes retired

FastAPI
SQLite
React
JWT
Docker

Read the case study→

Client & company work

Work other people depend on, and the money that rides on it.

Internals stay internal — these are the problems, my part in them, and what came out.

Synapse Commerce

2024 — now · In production

Shopify operations for a live electronics business

Case study→02

ExploreTech PRO

2025 — now · Active

Retrieval and agents over a crawled knowledge graph

Case study→03

AetherBot

2025 — now · Active

A chat agent platform with an embeddable widget

Case study→04

Wisp Jewels

2025 · Live

A jewellery store that takes orders in WhatsApp

Case study→05

Jiye · Creato · DealCart

2021 — 2023 · Shipped

Venture-studio apps from prototype to Play Store

Case study→

Contact

Got something that needs building? Tell me about it.

Freelance and contract work, Pakistan or remote. Backend, infrastructure and IoT are where I'm most useful — and I'll tell you straight if your problem isn't one of mine.

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+92 322 4478500→

GitHub

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