Senior Software Engineer building complex, real-time and finance-critical React products, and shipping them end to end for teams anywhere in the world.
Yes. Europe and the Middle East overlap naturally, and for the Americas I shift my hours. I work with a New York team today.
Hours on Karachi time (PKT, UTC+5).
| Result | What it measures | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 700+ | UI modules in the film and TV accounting app whose frontend I develop | Production accounting platform |
| ~40% | productivity gain from an HRM system I designed and built without a designer | Gray Mines |
| 3 | new jobs created after the alpha of an e-commerce product I built, which opened a new business line | Gray Mines |
| 10,000+ | users on a forex platform backend I built and scaled | Designer Dev |
Legal tech, B2B SaaS
A browser softphone, unified inbox and live compliance workspace, where a missed call or a missed consent rule costs a firm a client.
Read the case study: A real-time, AI-assisted client intake platform for personal injury law firms
Recreated with fictional data.
Finance, film and TV production
Ledgers, payroll, timecards and budgets in a 700+ module React app, where every journal entry has to balance to the cent.
Read the case study: A production accounting platform for film and TV
Recreated with fictional data.
Gray Mines, 2024 to 2025
I owned architecture, design and deployment. It created three new jobs after its alpha release.
Next.js, TypeScript, Strapi, AWS, CI/CD
Gray Mines, 2024 to 2025
Product, design and engineering by one person. It streamlined internal administration and improved productivity by about 40%.
Next.js, Node.js, AWS, CI/CD
Architecture, build, CI/CD and deploy, then I watch it in production and triage what comes back.
Strict TypeScript everywhere, and every fix confirmed in headless Chrome against mocked APIs.
Written updates, clear PR descriptions, runbooks, and early flags on risks and blockers.
to present
Lead frontend engineer on AI products and a large media production SaaS platform, working directly with the CEO.
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Owned new products end to end, from an e-commerce line of business to an internal HRM system.
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Led junior developers on a MERN e-commerce platform and shipped an event-ticketing app.
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Built a forex trading platform's frontend and backend and scaled it to 10,000+ users.
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Mobile apps and a Chrome extension for clients.
Email me at hi@yousufchohan.com, or book a 30-minute call at a time that suits you.