Ishtiaq A.

Senior Full Stack Developer who builds SaaS products, MVPs and AI-powered web apps that ship on time and keep working after launch. 🏆 Top Rated Plus | 100% Job Success | $100K+ earned | 5,200+ hours on Upwork Most founders who message me need one of three things: an idea turned into a working MVP, AI built properly into their product, or a half-finished app that a previous developer left behind. I handle all three end to end: frontend, backend, database, integrations and deployment. 🔹 AI INSIDE REAL PRODUCTS I build AI features that work in production, not just in a demo: - RAG systems: document search and question answering over your own data - AI agents that take real actions through tool and function calling - AI chatbots and assistants for support, sales and internal teams - OpenAI / LLM integrations: content generation, document and resume screening, summarisation All of it inside a proper app with authentication, payments, admin panels and monitoring. 🔹 WHAT ELSE I BUILD - SaaS platforms & MVPs: user roles, Stripe payments, dashboards and admin panels - Web applications in Next.js, React, Node.js and Laravel - API integrations: payment gateways, third-party APIs and automation between systems - Taking over existing projects: finishing, fixing and speeding them up 🔹 RECENT WORK - AI/LLM web application delivered start to finish; in the client's words, it "looked and performed perfect" - AI-powered resume screening web app built in Laravel - Postgraduate admissions platform MVP with authentication, payments and an admin dashboard, built from scratch for a first-time founder - Live Next.js + Supabase platform, finished and polished under a tight deadline - Fantasy football injury platform pulling multiple data sources together so the site runs automatically - 3,000+ hours as the long-term PHP / Vue.js developer on one client's product Several clients have hired me again for second and third phases of their projects. 🔹 HOW I WORK 1. Scope first: clear milestones and exactly what ships in version one 2. A small first milestone, so you can judge my work quickly 3. Regular progress updates without you having to ask 4. Clean, documented code that you own, plus support after launch 🔹 TECH STACK AI: OpenAI API, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, chatbots, embeddings and vector search Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Vue.js, Tailwind CSS Backend: Node.js, NestJS, Express, PHP, Laravel, Python Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Supabase, Firebase Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Docker, Vercel, CI/CD Mobile: React Native, Flutter Available for new projects, 40+ hours a week. Send me what you're building and I'll reply with how I'd approach it and a sensible first milestone. Keywords: Full Stack Developer | Full Stack Development | AI Developer | AI Integration | RAG | AI Agent Development | AI Chatbot | OpenAI API | SaaS Development | MVP Development | Next.js Developer | Laravel Developer