Jamal Shah — Full Stack Developer · Laravel & Next.js
APIs, payment systems, and the databases businesses run on. Five years with PHP and Laravel, now shipping multi-tenant SaaS on Next.js and NestJS: real estate in Pakistan, events and health-tech in the UAE, an insurance agency platform in TypeScript. Currently at Sparking Asia.
The Index — 02
Eight disciplines · One developer
Currently shipping at Sparking Asia
The Record — 03
Pulled from the CV and public profiles.
Dates and employers, checkable.
Account 01 — The Career
BS Computer Science · University of Peshawar
Account 02 — The Stack
Production-proven · not résumé decoration
“Anyone can list a stack. Mine has shipped.”
Check the record on LinkedIn ↗Appears in the record — employers & platforms
The Career — 04
Since 2021 I have built inside three engineering rooms: a real-estate software house, a product studio shipping to the UAE, and now Sparking Asia, a Top Rated Plus Upwork agency. Different domains, one job: turn business rules into systems that do not break — in PHP and Laravel, and now in TypeScript across Next.js and NestJS.
Web Software Developer
Real estate platforms: bookings, monthly installments, plot handover. Backend, database, performance.
Backend Developer
APIs for web and mobile. Stripe and Checkout.com integrations. Secure transactions at scale.
Full Stack Developer
Secure, scalable APIs and payment integrations, plus multi-tenant SaaS in Laravel and Next.js, inside a Top Rated Plus Upwork agency.
Spec in · System out · No drama
The Protocol — 05
How every system on this page got made.
No mystery, no heroics.
First
Understand the business rule before writing a line. Edge cases surfaced at the start, not discovered in production.
The middle
Schema, API, integration. Payment flows treated like production money from the first commit. Tested before it is called done.
Deploy day
DigitalOcean, Forge, Nginx. Deployed, monitored, documented, and maintained after launch, not abandoned at it.
The Exhibits — 06
Fourteen platforms from the record.
Stack listed on every exhibit.
A custom Laravel platform integrated with a WooCommerce storefront: products pushed from the admin panel to the store with seamless synchronization, secure data flow, and room to scale as the business grows.Laravel ↔ WooCommerce sync
An event registration platform for the UAE: organizers create and manage events, registrants browse, register, and pay online, and admins oversee the whole operation.
Race-day operations software: bib number assignment, chip code management, race-pack collection, and reporting. The unglamorous logistics that make event day actually work.
Doctor-booking APIs for the UAE: patients browse doctors, pick a slot, and get confirmed. Healthcare access with the friction removed.
Land-purchase management for builders: booking, monthly installment tracking, and final plot handover. A backend that keeps every transaction visible to the developer.
A Human Resource Management System covering employee records, attendance, and payroll. The system an HR team lives inside every working day.
A multi-tenant platform for insurance agencies where every agency, role and record is isolated at the database layer with row-level security, not by application checks that one missed query can bypass. Rebuilt from a vanilla-JS prototype into a typed monorepo.Row-level multi-tenancy
A school management platform covering admissions, attendance, assignments, fee collection and certificates, with biometric device integration for attendance and a Flutter app for parents and staff.Web platform + Flutter app
Operations software for a cleaning company: bookings, crew assignment, arrival confirmation, checklists and job photos. Rebuilt from a vanilla PHP system into a multi-tenant Laravel platform without losing a day of trading.PHP rewrite → multi-tenant Laravel
Time tracking for the agency: work sessions, activity sampling, periodic screenshots and manual attendance audits, tied to Upwork profiles so tracked hours and billed hours reconcile.Runs daily across the agency
A security suite for WordPress: activity auditing, file integrity monitoring, and malware and vulnerability scanning, plus an application firewall with hardening presets.Audit · Scan · Firewall
A coupons engine for WooCommerce: cart condition rules, BOGO deals, scheduling and URL coupons, plus auto-added products and shipping discounts — the discount logic stores never get out of the box.Rules engine for cart conditions
A daily-availability booking plugin for a motorcycle tour operator. One saved rule makes a product bookable every day — Stripe payments, seat limits and date exceptions — so nobody hand-creates a session per day.One rule, bookable every day
A network of property expo sites across Australia, the UK, India and Canada, each on its own domain with shared templates and per-city content, all run from a single multisite install.20 domains, one install
The Handoff — 07
One email. A straight answer about scope, timeline, and whether I am the right builder for it. The day counter on this page does not stop, and neither does the shipping.
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