Available for new projects

I build, modernize & scale high-performance web applications.

7 years shipping production Laravel and Vue.js apps for healthcare, travel and edtech businesses — lately with AI that actually works: RAG pipelines, voice agents and LLM integrations serving real users.

Laravel Vue.js 2 & 3 React AI · RAG · Agents · MCP NestJS · FastAPI AWS & DevOps MySQL · PostgreSQL · Redis Claude Code · Cursor
Shan Ali — Senior Software Engineer & AI Engineer
Shan Ali Lahore, PK · UTC+5 · US & EU overlap · replies < 24h
7
Years Experience
30+
Clients Worldwide
Millions
End Users Served
25K+
AI Itineraries Generated
Trusted across industries Healthcare Travel EdTech Marketplaces Workforce
Services

What I can build for you

End-to-end delivery — from architecture and clean code to deployment and support. Every service below is backed by real, shipped products.

Backend & API Development

Robust, scalable backends and multi-version REST APIs with Laravel — plus NestJS and FastAPI microservices where they fit. Authentication (OAuth/JWT), Stripe payments & subscriptions, queues, and Swagger-documented endpoints your mobile and web apps can rely on.

Laravel 10+ NestJS FastAPI REST APIs Stripe

Vue.js & React Frontend Development

Fast, responsive SPAs and dashboards with Vue 2 & 3 and React — Composition API, Pinia/Vuex state management, and real-time UI with Pusher & Firebase for products users love to use.

Vue 3 React Pinia Real-time SPA

AI Integrations, RAG & Semantic Search

Bring AI into your product: RAG pipelines with vector databases (Pinecone, pgvector, Qdrant), embeddings and semantic search over your own business data, and multi-provider LLM integrations — OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, or open-source models via Ollama and Groq. Shipped to production in my AI dosing engine and AI trip planner.

RAG Pinecone pgvector Embeddings OpenAI · Claude · Gemini

AI Agents & Voice Automation

Agentic AI that does real work: agents built with the OpenAI Agents SDK, LangChain/LangGraph and MCP (Model Context Protocol), with function calling wired to your APIs and data. Plus 24/7 voice agents for customer support and marketing — speech-to-text and text-to-speech pipelines with human hand-off when it matters.

AI Agents LangGraph MCP Function Calling Voice Agents

Legacy App Modernization

Migrate aging CakePHP, Yii or old Laravel apps to Laravel 10+ and Vue 3 without losing data or downtime — I've modernized three production platforms this way, including an 80% query-speed gain.

CakePHP → Laravel PHP 8+ Zero Downtime

Performance & DevOps

Query optimization driven by New Relic profiling, Redis caching, CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Dockerized deployments, and hosting on AWS or DigitalOcean.

Redis CI/CD Docker AWS
How I Work

A process built for busy clients

Clear scope, weekly demos, no surprises. The same process I've used to deliver for clients on Fiverr, Upwork and long-term contracts.

01

Discovery

A quick call or chat to understand your goals, users and constraints — free, no commitment.

02

Scope & Proposal

A clear written scope with milestones, timeline and a fixed or hourly quote. No surprises later.

03

Build in Sprints

Weekly demos and updates on your preferred channel — you see progress, not silence.

04

Launch & Handover

Deployment, documentation and a clean handover. The code and accounts are yours.

05

Ongoing Support

Optional maintenance, monitoring and new features as your product grows.

Why Work With Me

What you get beyond the code

Direct, fluent communication

Fluent English, fast responses, and overlap with US & EU working hours. You always talk to the engineer doing the work.

Results you can measure

Millions of end users on Baritastic, 25,000+ AI itineraries on Tripio, 50 tenants on WorkReady Mobile — production platforms whose owners can point at the numbers.

Code you own, standards you keep

Clean, documented code following SOLID principles — with full IP handover and no lock-in.

Team-lead experience

I've led and mentored Laravel teams, so I can work solo or slot into your existing team and raise its bar.

Deadline discipline

30+ freelance projects delivered on time on Fiverr, plus 6+ years of agency delivery under real deadlines. I work with an AI-accelerated toolchain — Claude Code and Cursor daily — so senior hours go further and ship sooner.

Honest technical advice

If a cheaper or simpler approach fits your goal better, I'll tell you — even when it means a smaller contract.

Client Reviews

What clients say

A selection from 100+ reviews on Fiverr — quoted word for word.

“Excellent coder and super quick at it as well! Very clean code and answered all my questions and requests promptly. I will definitely recommend him to anyone looking at getting some coding done and I will be doing a lot more work with him again for all my future projects.”
glancoler Australia · via Fiverr
“This is the second project I have completed with shanali314 and he is reliable, good at communicating, and always willing to make minor adjustments as requested. Great problem-solver who is helping me expand what I can offer to my students.”
grumpycat840 United States · via Fiverr
“Shanali314 is the biggest lifesaver I have ever met. Very patient and respectful and is very understanding thank you so much!!”
hashemh77 United Kingdom · via Fiverr
“He worked very hard to ensure I was pleased with the final product. Seller was awesome at communicating and was extremely knowledgeable. I would definitely purchase again.”
jordancurk United States · via Fiverr
“This is the third or fourth time I work with shanali314. It was a pleasure as always. Great work and can highly recommend.”
emiltelander Sweden · via Fiverr
“A very competent specialist knows a lot of nuances in web development. Recommended!”
oleg_thl Ukraine · via Fiverr

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Experience

Where I've been

Sr. Software Engineer | Team Lead

Brainx Technologies 10/2020 – Present

Building, modernizing and leading full-stack products with Laravel & Vue.js for healthcare, edtech, telecom and marketplace clients — growing from developer to technical lead and assistant project manager.

  • Built platforms from scratch end to end: CallSling (AI voice agents SaaS), DosingMadeEasy (AI dosing engine), IYF Workbooks (multi-lingual assessments)
  • Shipped AI in production: RAG-tuned voice agents (VAPI, Bland AI), OpenAI + vectorized medical data, AI matchmaking (Noor Match)
  • Modernized legacy systems: Baritastic CakePHP → Laravel + Vue serving millions of users; WRM upgraded PHP 7.4 → 8.3, Laravel 6 → latest, MySQL 5 → 8.4
  • Cut query execution times by 40–80% across platforms using New Relic-driven optimization and indexing
  • Led a team of 6 as Technical Lead on WorkReady Mobile — system design, PR reviews and mentoring
  • Promoted to Assistant Project Manager — owned client communication, requirements and delivery planning for a 50-tenant production SaaS
  • DevOps across projects: Docker, CI/CD pipelines, AWS EC2/S3/RDS and ECS Fargate deployments

Software Engineer | Full-Stack Developer

SAMAD Technologies 10/2019 – 09/2020

Full-stack development across media, nutrition and fitness platforms — building features end to end and stabilizing production systems.

  • Built the ACTP casting platform backend from scratch: contests with public voting, casting jobs, PayPal subscriptions, Agora live streaming
  • Implemented the FFmpeg video processing pipeline and Stripe monetization on Elegendz
  • Designed USDA-style nutrition data structures for VeggSavvy (recipe- and ingredient-level nutrients)
  • Delivered features and stability fixes on time across multiple client projects

Freelance Developer

Fiverr 2018 – 2023 · Back in 2026

Completed 30+ projects for clients worldwide — PHP web applications, C++ programs and MySQL-driven systems — handling scoping, communication and delivery end to end. Paused freelancing in 2023 to focus on full-time engineering; now back and accepting new projects.

  • Custom web apps, CRUD systems and RESTful APIs for small businesses
  • Debugging, optimization and rescue work on existing codebases
  • 100+ reviews, ~5.0 average rating

Have a project in mind?

Tell me what you're building — or what's slowing your current app down. I'll reply within 24 hours with honest advice and a clear next step.