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I ship websites & apps built to last.

I'm Usama Munawar. I build websites and digital products end to end: React frontends, React Native apps, Node.js services, and Laravel backends that work together in production.

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Systems documented
25
Systems documented
Case studies and archive
Years in production
5+
Years in production
Web, mobile, and backend
Client feedback

What the people who hired me say.

Named, attributable, and tied to systems listed on this page.

Clients

  • HoboTech
  • Five Stars Galway Taxis
  • Marian Holy Art
  • Afrosource
  • Syed Star Engineering
  • Syed Zain Kazmi
  • Solutions Zilla
  • Focus Interiors
  • Jabulani Group of Companies

and more through Upwork and Fiverr.

01 / 03

“Usama rebuilt our booking and dispatch flow and it simply stopped breaking. Bookings that used to fail at peak hours now go through cleanly, and the driver side is far easier to manage. He explained every decision in plain language and delivered on the dates he promised.” Shahrukh, Owner, Galway Taxis

SShahrukhOwner, Galway Taxis
Industries

Built for the way your industry works.

The same engineering, shaped by the rules, volumes and edge cases of the fields I have shipped in.

  • Transport & Dispatch

    Booking, dispatch, driver apps

    • Booking flows that hold at peak hours
    • Driver and dispatcher apps
    • Live status and notifications
  • E-commerce & Retail

    Stores, checkout, catalogues

    • Checkout and payment fixes
    • Catalogue and order management
    • Speed and SEO tuning
  • Healthcare

    Clinic and patient workflows

    • Appointment and patient portals
    • Role-based access and audit trails
    • Reminders and reporting
  • Fintech & Billing

    Payments, subscriptions, invoicing

    • Subscriptions and invoicing
    • Payment gateway integration
    • Reconciliation and reports
  • Legal Tech

    Case, document and client portals

    • Case and document workflows
    • Client portals
    • Secure sharing and permissions
  • Telecom & VoIP

    Asterisk, IVR, call routing

    • Asterisk and call routing
    • IVR menus and queues
    • Call logs and CRM hooks
  • Contact Centres

    Dialers, CRM and agent tooling

    • Dialer and agent tooling
    • Call recording and analytics
    • CRM and ticket sync
  • Industrial & Mining

    Operations and field platforms

    • Operations dashboards
    • Field data capture
    • Reporting and integrations
  • B2B & Wholesale

    Ordering, pricing, inventory

    • Trade ordering and pricing tiers
    • Inventory sync
    • Account and quote portals
  • Security

    Monitoring and detection tooling

    • Monitoring and alerting
    • Detection tooling
    • Hardened APIs
  • Local Services

    Interiors, trades, marketplaces

    • Booking and lead capture
    • Service marketplaces
    • Showcase sites that convert
  • IT Services & Agencies

    White-label backend delivery

    • White-label backend delivery
    • Laravel and Node.js teams on demand
    • Handover with docs and CI/CD
Process

A predictable path from problem to production.

Six stages, each with a stated deliverable. No scope creep, no surprise invoices, and no phase where you have to ask what's happening.

  1. 01Day 1

    Discovery

    A 30-minute call on goals, constraints, and what is already breaking. You leave with an honest read on whether it is worth building, including when it isn't.

  2. 02Day 2–3

    Architecture

    A written technical proposal: stack, data model, integration points and milestones, with a fixed quote and a timeline you can hold me to.

  3. 03Week 1+

    Implementation

    Weekly demos against a visible board, and code that lands in your repository from day one. Working software each week, not a status report about it.

  4. 04Pre-launch

    Hardening

    Tests on the paths that matter, load behaviour, idempotency and failure handling, then a slow-query pass and a written list of known limits.

  5. 05Launch

    Deployment

    CI/CD, migrations that run forward cleanly and a zero-downtime release, with a rollback path and handover documentation.

  6. 06Post-launch

    Observability

    Structured logs, error tracking and health checks, with dashboards you can read and runbooks written while things are calm.

How I think

I build systems,
not just features.

A feature is done when it works on your machine. A system is done when it survives traffic, failure, a bad deploy, and the engineer who inherits it.

“Don’t just build software. Digitize, automate, and scale your entire business.”

Usama Munawar, Full-Stack Product EngineerUsama Munawar Full-Stack Product Engineer in Lahore. 5+ years shipping web, mobile, and backend products, with verified profiles on Upwork and Fiverr.

Write paths that touch money or third parties are idempotent, retried, and dead-lettered when they finally give up. A system that only works when the network behaves is a demo.

What "production" means here

Every connected product I ship resolves to some version of this path. The interesting work is deciding where each stage lives, what happens when one of them fails, and which of them you can afford to skip.

Request lifecycle
  1. API
    Versioned
  2. Auth
    Policies
  3. Queue
    Dispatch
  4. Redis
    State · cache
  5. Workers
    Horizon
  6. Database
    Indexed
  7. Event
    Domain
  8. WebSocket
    Broadcast
  9. Client
    Live UI
Engagements

Three ways to work together.

Choose by the shape of the problem rather than the budget. Every engagement starts with the same free 30-minute call.

Sprint

1–2 weeks
from$1,500

You know exactly what needs doing and need it done properly.

  • Laravel feature build or bug-fix sprint
  • API endpoints, queues, or auth hardening
  • n8n / automation workflow setup
  • Code review and architecture notes
  • Direct WhatsApp + email access

Short-term focused work

Build

Most common
from$4,500

You have a product to ship and need the whole backend owned.

  • Full Laravel SaaS or backend platform
  • Multi-tenant DB design, RBAC, billing
  • REST/GraphQL API with OpenAPI spec
  • CI/CD, observability, zero-downtime deploys
  • Handover docs + 2-week post-launch support

End-to-end system · 3–6 weeks

Scale

Ongoing
from$3,500/ mo

You need senior capacity and architecture leadership, continuously.

  • Dedicated capacity each week
  • VoIP / Asterisk, real-time, AI integrations
  • Architecture leadership for your team
  • Incident response + performance tuning
  • Monthly roadmap & technical debt reviews

Ongoing engineering partnership

Book a free call

Pricing is a starting reference. Scope and price are agreed after the call, not before it.

Open for new work

Have a system that needs to scale?

Bring your architecture problem, automation bottleneck, or product idea. We will work out the right engineering path before you spend more time or money.

Free, 30 minutes, no pitch. You leave with a next step either way.

Contact

Tell me what's breaking.

Share the architecture, automation, or VoIP problem you're facing. You'll get an honest assessment back, including if the answer is that you do not need me.

Availability
Taking new work
Response time
Within 4 hours
Working hours
09:00–19:00 PKT
Timezone
UTC+5

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