
Muhammad Zeeshan
Verified Expert in Engineering
Node.js Developer
Sheikhupura, Punjab, Pakistan
Toptal member since August 22, 2022
Muhammad is a senior full-stack engineer and AI strategist with over seven years of experience building products for teams in the United Kingdom, United States, UAE, and Pakistan. He specializes in React, TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, and Python, turning generative AI into production-ready features rather than demos. At Emperia, he has built AI pipelines that cut a 48-hour workflow to near instant and created immersive virtual stores for global luxury retail brands.
Portfolio
Experience
- Node.js - 7 years
- React - 7 years
- TypeScript - 7 years
- Full-stack Development - 7 years
- Next.js - 7 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 5 years
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) - 3 years
- AI Engineering - 3 years
Preferred Environment
Git, Node.js, MacOS, Cursor AI, NestJS, React, Next.js, Chakra UI, Figma to React, Claude Code
The most amazing...
...thing I've built was an AI pipeline at Emperia that uses Gemini Pro to merge product images into 3D panoramas, cutting a 48-hour process to near-instant.
Work Experience
Senior Full-stack Engineer
Emperia
- Cut production timelines by 90 percent by replacing a 48-hour manual 3D modeling workflow with a near-instant AI-driven image placement pipeline.
- Engineered an end-to-end AI pipeline using Python, FastAPI, and OpenCV to composite synthetic product views onto 4K panoramic backgrounds.
- Integrated GPT-4o and Gemini Pro to power AI-driven features for global virtual commerce experiences at scale.
- Built immersive, gamified virtual stores using React, TypeScript, and Chakra UI for global luxury retail clients.
- Collaborated closely with 3D artists and product stakeholders to define technical requirements and iterate on AI-driven features rapidly.
Senior Front-end Engineer
Sawhorse
- Delivered gamified online retail experiences for global enterprise brands, including Walmart, owning the full front end from Figma to production.
- Built the Walmart Realm UI from scratch using React, Next.js, and Chakra UI, integrating third-party games and KRPano for immersive 3D environments.
- Directed end-to-end front-end deployment pipelines across AWS and Google Cloud for high traffic, globally distributed applications.
- Maintained zero critical incidents across all client launches through rigorous pre-deployment testing and proactive monitoring.
Senior Software Engineer
VentureDive Pvt
- Reduced API response times to under 1.5 seconds and maintained 99.9 percent uptime through background job queues and optimized database queries.
- Led back-end architecture with NestJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Docker, and AWS for government and fintech platforms serving thousands of users.
- Owned API design, performance testing, and client-facing technical demos across multiple concurrent product workstreams.
- Mentored junior engineers and introduced structured code review practices to raise back-end quality and delivery consistency.
Software Engineer
Emperia
- Scaled the front-end architecture independently for global luxury retail clients, including The Bicester Collection, with zero critical downtime post launch.
- Took full ownership of AWS S3 and CloudFront deployments, production incident response, and ongoing system health monitoring.
- Translated precise Figma designs into pixel-accurate, responsive UIs using Chakra UI for immersive 3D shopping environments built on KRPano.
Full-stack Developer
Freelance
- Developed an application that connects with Plaid API and helps users to monitor their transactions data via Google Sheets.
- Integrated Stripe payment for managing subscriptions.
- Created a Google Sheet add-on to fetch data from the API and then populate it in Google Sheets to generate a report.
Senior Software Engineer
Afiniti
- Grew from Analyst to Senior Engineer over three years, taking full ownership of back-end services for an enterprise-grade AI behavioral analytics platform.
- Built and maintained scalable API servers using NestJS, PostgreSQL, and Redis, supporting high-throughput enterprise clients globally.
- Achieved over 90 percent unit test coverage with Jest and Supertest, establishing a reliability baseline that significantly reduced production regressions.
- Managed continuous deployment pipelines and coordinated zero-downtime production rollouts across a distributed engineering team.
- Integrated third-party APIs and data sources to extend platform capabilities and support new enterprise client onboarding.
Associate Software Engineer
Novatore Solutions
- Owned full-stack development end-to-end, building back-end services with Node.js and frontends with React and Angular.
- Delivered complete applications from scratch to deployment, including mobile services and internal dashboards, within tight timelines.
- Managed data using MongoDB and SQL for REST APIs. Created the data structure from scratch and maintained complex relations simply and easily.
Experience
TallyMsg, AI Expense Tracker on WhatsApp and Telegram
https://tallymsg.appROLE: As the founder and sole engineer, I owned every part of this product, from idea to launch. I built the front-end dashboard, back-end services, AI parsing pipeline, billing, and production deployment. I also handled marketing, including region-specific ad campaigns and email outreach.
Features:
1. AI parses expenses sent as plain text on WhatsApp and Telegram
2. Web dashboard with spending charts, budgets, and insights
3. Voice note logging and receipt scanning on paid plans
4. AI-generated weekly spending digests
5. Subscription billing with tiered pricing plans
AI Pipeline That Places Product Images into Panoramas
https://emperiavr.comROLE: I engineered this pipeline end-to-end using Python, FastAPI, and OpenCV, and integrated GPT-4o and Gemini Pro for the image understanding and placement logic. I owned the architecture, the API design, and the production rollout, working closely with 3D artists and product stakeholders to refine the output.
Features:
1. Converts a single product photo into a placed 3D virtual showroom scene
2. Uses Gemini Pro for scene understanding and placement
3. Cuts production turnaround from 48 hours to near instant
4. Built on FastAPI with OpenCV for image processing
Walmart Realm, Immersive Virtual Store
https://emperiavr.com/project/walmart-realm/ROLE: I built the user interface from scratch using React, Next.js, and Chakra UI, and integrated third-party games directly into the experience alongside KRPano for the 3D environment. I owned the front end from Figma designs through to production and managed the full deployment pipeline across AWS and Google Cloud, maintaining zero critical incidents through the launch.
Features:
1. Full 3D immersive store built with KRPano
2. Embedded third-party games for customer engagement
3. Built with React, Next.js, and Chakra UI from Figma designs
4. Deployed and monitored across AWS and Google Cloud
5. Zero critical incidents across launch and post-launch monitoring
Dawlati
https://www.dawlati.ae/ROLE: As a back-end engineer and team lead, I managed a team while building the REST APIs, ran performance testing to keep the system efficient, and led the deployment process. I also took an active role in client interactions, gathering requirements, running demos, and addressing client requests directly. The platform has maintained 99.9 percent uptime since launch.
Features:
1. REST API and back-end architecture built with NestJS, Node.js, and PostgreSQL
2. Team leadership across back-end delivery
3. Direct client-facing demos and requirement gathering
4. 99.9 percent uptime maintained post-launch
AskEddy, AI Booking Platform for UAE Activities
ROLE.
I worked on the back-end architecture using NestJS, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL as part of the VentureDive engineering team, building the APIs that power search, booking, and AI recommendations, while keeping response times fast and the system reliable at scale.
Features:
1. AI-powered recommendations for activities and attractions
2. Backend built with NestJS, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL
3. Booking and payment flows for UAE-based attractions
4. Built for scale alongside government and fintech platforms at VentureDive
The Bicester Collection, Virtual Shopping Experience
https://emperiavr.com/project/bicester-village/ROLE: I took this project from inception to production as the lead front-end engineer, building a responsive UI with React and Chakra UI directly from Figma designs and integrating it with a KRPano-powered 3D environment. I added event tracking through Google Tag Manager, deployed the application on S3, managed CloudFront for global content delivery, and built gamification features to drive customer engagement.
Features:
1. Full 3D virtual shopping environment built with KRPano
2. Responsive UI built with React and Chakra UI from Figma designs
3. Event tracking through Google Tag Manager
4. Deployed on AWS S3 with CloudFront for global delivery
5. Gamification features to boost customer engagement
Afiniti Mega AI, Enterprise AI Platform Back End
ROLE: I grew from analyst to senior engineer over three years on this platform, eventually taking full ownership of the back-end services. I built and maintained scalable API servers with NestJS, PostgreSQL, and Redis, achieved over 90 percent unit test coverage with Jest and Supertest, and managed continuous deployment pipelines with zero-downtime production rollouts.
Features:
1. Back-end services built with NestJS, PostgreSQL, and Redis
2. Over 90 percent unit test coverage with Jest and Supertest
3. Zero downtime production deployment pipelines
4. Third-party API integrations for enterprise client onboarding
Tommy Hilfiger, Immersive Virtual Store
https://emperiavr.com/project/tommy-hilfiger/ROLE: I led this project as the sole front-end engineer, building a responsive experience with React and Chakra UI from Figma designs. I enhanced the KRPano-based 3D environment by integrating the UI, adding event tracking through Google Tag Manager, and including gamification elements to boost engagement. I managed the full deployment through AWS S3 and CloudFront.
Features:
1. Sole front-end engineer from Figma design to production
2. 3D environment built on KRPano with custom UI integration
3. Gamification elements to boost shopper engagement
4. Full deployment managed through AWS S3 and CloudFront
Ubwab
https://ubwab.com/ROLE: I built this application end-to-end, including the features below.
Features:
1. Creating a user profile
2. Posting images, videos, links, or text
3. Liking and unliking a post
4. Following another user
5. Customizing the news feed
6. Creating groups
7. Posting in groups to joined users only
8. Blocking and unblocking a user
Tenders Watch
• Manage categories
• Create and manage a tender in a specific category
• List tenders with Rich Text Editor for users
Dega MarketPlace
Integrated the BigCommerce API and achieved the following things:
• Account creation.
• Order creation.
• Order cancellation.
• Refund request.
• Shopping lists for quick checkouts.
• Parents earn 10% as a reward, a max of $150 per month when a child makes a purchase.
• Customers can use their referral reward balance at checkouts.
This MVP was a success, and the application development is still in progress by the team I worked with.
Ticket Generator
The application used a webhook from Nexmo to get the messages and verify them via OTP to purchase the ticket. This way, the system books the ticket, and we manually generate the profit from every ticket generated.
The application has the following features:
• Manages users.
• Manages phone numbers. Each phone number has a unique webhook URL, which Nexmo will call.
• Gets all the communication messages for a number.
• A restricted admin access only.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI) - Lahore, Pakistan
Intermediate in Computer Science
Punjab College - Sheikhupura, Pakistan
Certifications
Google Prompting Essentials
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, React, Antd, React Redux, REST APIs, Moment.js, React Router, JSON API, Flexbox, API Development, Stripe API, Twilio API, Redux-Saga, Socket.IO, Sockets, Chart.js, Stripe, Highcharts, Auth, D3.js, Recharts, Puppeteer, OpenCV, OpenAI API, WhatsApp API, Telegram Bot API, PIL, BigCommerce API, Nexmo, Vue, Instagram API, Plaid API, SendBird
Tools
Slack, Skype, Mongoose, GitHub, Git, Postman, Jira, Jenkins, SuperTest, SendGrid, React Apollo, Figma, Webpack, Bitbucket, Cron, Babel, Amazon OpenSearch, Claude Code, Redux Toolkit, Amazon Cognito, Prisma, Google Sheets, Plaid, KRPano, AWS Fargate, Amazon CloudWatch, Sentry
Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3, C, ECMAScript (ES6), SCSS, GraphQL, SQL, Sass, Python, PHP, XML, TypeScript 4, TypeScript 5, Python 3
Frameworks
NestJS, Next.js, Express.js, Bootstrap, Redux, Tailwind CSS, Ant Design, Material UI, Swagger, Jest, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Django, Vanilla JS
Paradigms
Responsive, Agile, REST, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Role-based Access Control (RBAC), Software Testing, Unit Testing, UX Design, Test-driven Development (TDD), Web Performance Optimization (WPO), Agile Software Development, UI Design, Testing, Web UX Design, Microservices, Microservices Architecture, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Gamification, Code Refactoring
Platforms
Twilio, Web, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, Mailgun, DigitalOcean, Netlify, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vercel, Firebase, Mapbox, BigCommerce, Heroku, Bluehost, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Docker, Linux, MacOS
Storage
MongoDB, PostgreSQL, JSON, NoSQL, Relational Databases, Databases, MySQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Google Cloud, Amazon DynamoDB, PostgreSQL 10, Redis
Industry Expertise
Web Design
Other
Web Development, APIs, Front-end, Back-end, Axios, Responsive Web Apps, Full-stack, React Hooks, JSON REST APIs, API Integration, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Front-end Development, Responsive UI, Web Applications, Single-page Applications (SPAs), Charts, Full-stack Development, Server-side Rendering (SSR), Interactive UI, Admin Panels, Dashboards, Dashboard Design, UI Development, Web Accessibility, MERN Stack, Webhooks, Communication, Web UI, Front-end Architecture, Websites, User Management, Prompt Engineering, AI Engineering, Windows 10, Software Engineering, TypeORM, WebSockets, eCommerce, Storybook, Chakra UI, Payment APIs, User Interface (UI), Gatsby, Third-party APIs, CI/CD Pipelines, Content Management Systems (CMS), User Experience (UX), SaaS, Design, SEO Tools, Data Visualization, Interactive Maps, API Documentation, Application State Management, Reusable Libraries, CSV, Team Leadership, Code Review, Styled-components, Code Architecture, Airtable, Slate, WYSIWYG Web Builders, Integration Testing, Web UX, English, Serverless, OAuth, Slack App, Gemini API, Open-source LLMs, Tailwind UI, Google Antigravity, Supabase, Supabase Auth, Telegram Bots, Railway, FastAPI, AI Integration, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Authorization, Back-end Development, Database Schema Design, Payments, Fintech, LLM Integration, QR Codes, Cloudflare, Zoho, Google SEO, Extensions, CSS5, Postmark, BullMQ, AWS Secrets Manager, Amazon RDS, Figma to React, Iframes, Games, Cursor AI, Team Management, GitHub Copilot Chat, Performance
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