Bilal I.

2,000+ hours on one client's Laravel and Next.js platform. Still on it, still 5 stars. If you're trying to work out whether I'm any good, that's the number I'd check first. Most of what I do is picking up builds that are already moving. An MVP that's 60% done and stalled. An API that was fine at 100 users and isn't at 10,000. A dashboard the original dev left behind that nobody wants to touch. I'm used to reading other people's code and I don't need a clean slate to be useful. What I get hired for: • Custom web applications built end to end, so you're not coordinating a backend contractor and a frontend one. • API integration work, including the fiddly kind. Google Calendar sync, iCal feeds, two-way availability, Stripe, OpenAI. Most of the pain in integrations is other people's edge cases, and that's the part I'm good at. • Admin dashboards and internal tools that your team can actually operate, rather than one that needs me on call to change a filter. • PDF and print generation. Invoices, reports, documents that have to come out right on paper as well as on screen. It's unglamorous and a lot of developers quietly avoid it. • Real-time features and performance work on apps that have outgrown their original build. Stack: Laravel, PHP, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, GraphQL and REST on the backend. Next.js, React, Vue.js, TypeScript and Tailwind on the frontend. How I work: I want the scope clear before I write code. You'll see progress without chasing me for it. And I document as I go, so whoever picks up the project after me can follow what's happening without calling me. Send me a message with what you're building and where it's stuck. I'll come back within a few hours with what I think the scope actually is, a rough timeline, and whether I'm the right person for it. If I'm not, I'll tell you.