U Usama Abdul Khalique
Available for freelance & full‑time

Building reliable & scalable software

I’m Usama Abdul Khalique, a senior full‑stack engineer focused on web platforms, microservices, and developer experience. 6+ years delivering cloud‑native products with MERN, AWS/GCP, CI/CD, and GenAI features.

React / Node.js

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Current Focus
MERN • Serverless • AI
Leadership
Team Lead & Mentorship

Tech I enjoy

TypeScript React Next.js Node.js GraphQL PostgreSQL Docker AWS GCP

Featured Projects

AI platform
AI + Backend

AI‑Driven Content Platform

Recommendation engine & CMS integrations for personalized content (LangChain • Vector DB • RAG).

Next.js Node LangChain
Event-driven survey app
Event‑Driven

Survey Campaign App — Event‑Driven Architecture

Serverless & queues across Firebase, GCP, AWS Lambda + DynamoDB with fan‑out workers and audit trails.

Firebase GCP AWS DynamoDB
Property management
Full‑Stack

Property‑Management SaaS

Work orders, lease & rent workflows on MERN microservices + AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB).

React Node AWS

Experience

Development Manager— Culturefy

Mar 2023 — Present
  • Mentored 15 engineers across FE/BE/ML.
  • AI personalization platform; OKRs & sprint planning.
  • Release governance → incidents reduced by ~40%.

Team Lead / Full‑Stack — Jamal Brothers (Karachi)

Nov 2022 — Mar 2023
  • Led 6‑member team on two MERN projects.
  • PR checklist improved quality by ~30%; trained 4 juniors.

Full‑Stack Developer — VertikalRMS (NY, USA)

Mar 2022 — Nov 2022
  • Optimized core SaaS modules → 60% faster page loads.
  • Improved 3rd‑party API reliability to 99.9%.

Full‑Stack Developer — HyperDev Solution (Karachi)

Jan 2022 — Nov 2022
  • Delivered 3 client apps E2E on MERN; time‑to‑market ↓ 30%.
  • Automated tests → critical bugs ↓ 25%.

Full‑Stack Developer — Invision Techno (Karachi)

Aug 2021 — Dec 2021
  • Built tele‑consultation platform with WebRTC & Socket.io.
  • Deployed patient‑management system for multi‑site clinics.

Full‑Stack Developer — ASASA Tech (Karachi)

Dec 2019 — Dec 2021
  • Online payroll system (React, Laravel, MySQL) for 2k+ employees.
  • Legacy ERP → responsive React components.

Skills

Frontend

React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, PWAs

Backend

Node, Express/Nest, FastAPI, REST/GraphQL, SQL/NoSQL

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB), GCP, Docker, CI/CD

Notes & Writing

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Architecture

Patterns for resilient APIs

Idempotency, retries, backpressure, and circuit breakers that actually work.

6 min read
Frontend

Rendering strategies in 2025

CSR, SSR, ISR, RSC — when to pick what without the hype.

4 min read
DevEx

Faster CI without cutting corners

Caching, test sharding, and hermetic builds that scale.

7 min read
Open to new work

Let’s build something great

Have a product idea or platform to ship? I lead from design-to-deploy with clean code and pragmatic engineering.

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