Muhammad A.
Laravel & React/Next.js SaaS Engineer | AI, Stripe & API Integrations
I help startups and growing businesses build, fix and scale SaaS products with Laravel, React/Next.js and Node.js, including AI features, Stripe billing and third-party API integrations. Top Rated Plus | 100% Job Success | $100K+ earned | 60+ Upwork projects | 9+ years in production software If you have an existing codebase, I get up to speed quickly and start shipping without unnecessary rewrites. If you're starting fresh, I'll help you scope the MVP, choose a stack that scales, and take it to production. RECENT PRODUCTION WORK LawWiz – LegalTech SaaS Long-term engineer on a production platform with 1,000+ legal tools: architecture, backend and frontend, AI-powered features, subscriptions and payments, authentication, browser extensions, mobile apps and AWS infrastructure. Docturnal Health – US healthcare platform Patient-to-provider platform: appointment workflows, authentication, prescription-related processes, APIs and AWS infrastructure. Comps USA – Real-estate data platform Property search, assessment and sales data, comparable-property analysis, maps and geospatial features, property imagery and backend APIs. WHAT I CAN TAKE OFF YOUR PLATE • SaaS MVPs, multi-tenant apps, admin dashboards and customer portals • OpenAI/LLM integrations, AI assistants, chatbots and AI agents • Stripe/PayPal subscriptions, billing and payment flows • REST/GraphQL APIs, webhooks and integrations (Auth0, Twilio, SendGrid and more) • Laravel/PHP modernization and legacy codebase rescue • Production debugging, performance tuning and AWS deployments STACK React, Next.js, TypeScript · Laravel, PHP, Node.js · MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB · AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, S3), Docker, CI/CD HOW I WORK I start with the business goal, then review the existing architecture and its risks, and choose the simplest approach that will stay maintainable. You get clear communication, regular progress updates, and code the next developer can work with. I use AI tools (Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT) to move faster, and I review every change for security, performance and scalability. Send me a message with what you're building or the problem you're stuck on, and I'll reply with how I'd approach it.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $28k
Billed in all: $187,885$188k
$4k in the last 6 months
Across 8 contracts
Across 62 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 2% in PHP
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
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