Four years, roughly in reverse.

Lead engineer on ImagineApps, Audio Studio, and Ad Studio — three modules of Imagine, Vyro's creative-AI suite serving 30M+ users. I own the front-end of all three end to end, and step into whatever else a feature needs.

• Cut per-user bandwidth and CPU on media-heavy feeds — viewport-aware loading, masonry virtualization, pagination, and blurhash placeholders.
• Reach for native platform APIs before third-party packages: in-browser audio capture, device selection, and live visualization, no external recorder library.
• Automated the SEO landing-page pipeline with Strapi and build-time static generation across 15 page categories — a new page went from a day of engineering to a CMS entry, and metadata changes no longer need a production release.
• Made the product feel faster with socket-driven updates and optimistic UI — the interface answers immediately instead of waiting on the server.
• Work in a Turborepo monorepo of independently deployed Next.js apps sharing UI, services, and hooks packages; onboarded new engineers and held the line on code quality through review.

Built Guardian Space from scratch as the sole engineer — a geospatial hazard-monitoring platform on a heavy Mapbox 2D/3D surface. Shipped a fully functional MVP in under three months.

• Live hazard feeds from NASA FIRMS, NOAA/NWS, USGS, OpenWeather, and IoT sensors, each an independently toggleable map layer — plus satellite imagery and live HLS video.
• An AI assistant that answered situational questions and plotted the events it referenced straight onto the map, with chat history persisted across sessions.
• Kept the map responsive under streaming event data — list virtualization, isolated per-layer state, and careful Mapbox memory management.

Built and deployed Node/Express services on AWS EC2, with React + Redux Toolkit on the front. Wired in Bank Alfalah's payment gateway to move real money safely.

Server-side and front-end for IoT projects — a monitoring system for an indoor-plant ecosystem (sensors in, actuators out), plus the company's own MERN-stack site.

A run of MERN / React internships across PK and remote shops. Heads-down on the fundamentals — how the pieces of a stack actually fit together, why they talk the way they do — the groundwork everything since has been built on.