Independent Software Engineer Riyadh, KSA

Ships production,
not prototypes.

7+ years scaling fintech MVPs and enterprise backends. Now contracting on AI-integrated SaaS and consumer products — finished MVPs in 2–3 months across FastAPI, LLM agents, React Native, and the full DevOps stack underneath. No prototypes, no hand-offs.

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7+Years shipping

77Tools shipped

4,500+Leads automated

99.9%Uptime / 6mo

FastAPI ● PostgreSQL ● React Native ● Next.js ● Groq · OpenAI ● Cloudflare R2 ● Stripe ● Firebase Auth ● Docker · K8s ● Nginx · systemd ● yt-dlp · Playwright ● Baileys (WhatsApp) ● FastAPI ● PostgreSQL ● React Native ● Next.js ● Groq · OpenAI ● Cloudflare R2 ● Stripe ● Firebase Auth ● Docker · K8s ● Nginx · systemd ● yt-dlp · Playwright ● Baileys (WhatsApp) ●

01 / Work

Featured projects.

Live products and contract builds I architected, built, and operate end-to-end.

Client · Mobile + PWA Live

Cross-platform social aggregator

Follow creators across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and X in one unified feed — plus news, podcasts, and topic surfacing. Separate FastAPI scraper service with anti-bot proxy rotation that survives YouTube data-center IP blocks.

FastAPI Postgres + Alembic Firebase Auth Cloudflare R2 yt-dlp · Playwright Apscheduler

Multi-platform · Anti-bot · PWA install

Owned · Tools Live

Free online tools suite

77+ browser-based tools across image, video, PDF, audio, code, and font utilities. Zero-retention by design.

FastAPI SQLite Stripe jsdom

Owned · AI · Sales Live

WhatsApp AI sales agent

Autoresponder with a defined persona handling outbound sales. Per-client conversation history, auto-summarization at 20-message threshold, Groq-powered.

Baileys Express Groq · llama-3.3-70b

Owned · Data Live

Lead-gen pipeline

End-to-end outbound: Google search scraping, automated per-lead PDF audit report generation, piped into the WhatsApp AI agent. 4,565 active records across 50 US states and 13 industries.

Python BeautifulSoup googlesearch-python PDF generation

Owned · Jobs Live

Jobs board

Lightweight jobs board for a niche professional audience. Custom listing flows, search, and email alerts.

FastAPI SQLite SMTP

Owned · Editorial Live

Editorial blog platform

Custom Python static-site generator powering an editorial publication — markdown content, fast builds, SEO defaults.

Python SSG Markdown Static hosting

02 / Services

What I sell.

Engagements I take, the way they actually look. Hourly on small scope. Fixed-price on well-defined MVPs.

/ 01 MVP & MMP Development Full product from spec to live, 4–12 weeks. Web + mobile + backend + payments. ↗
/ 02 Backend Engineering FastAPI / Django / Node APIs, Postgres / SQLite schemas, auth, billing, integrations. ↗
/ 03 Mobile App Development React Native cross-platform — offline support, push, deep linking. Native-feeling. ↗
/ 04 AI / LLM Integration Groq / OpenAI agents, conversation memory, summarization, RAG, custom personas. ↗
/ 05 Web Scraping & Data Pipelines yt-dlp / Playwright / Selenium / BeautifulSoup at scale. Anti-bot infra and proxy rotation. ↗
/ 06 DevOps & Production Infra Nginx multi-domain + Let's Encrypt + systemd + Docker, CI/CD pipelines. ↗
/ 07 Fintech Engineering Audit logs, policy modules, savings & group goals, payments, KYC. Done before. ↗
/ 08 Sales & Lead-Gen Automation Lead-gen pipelines fed into AI WhatsApp / email outreach. ↗

03 / Metrics

By the numbers.

Real receipts. Not vague claims.

Years shipping

Fintech MVPs, enterprise backends, cross-platform mobile.

Free tools live

77+

Browser tools across image, video, PDF, audio, and code.

Leads automated

4,500+

Across 50 US states & 13 industries, fed into the WhatsApp AI agent.

Uptime (6mo)

99.9%

5+ live production services on own infrastructure — zero downtime.

Server perf

5×

User-authorization process speedup via backend optimization.

Chat fetch

10×

Database remodel of chat module for message / conversation reads.

Deploy time

−40%

Microservices on Docker, K8s, Helm. Pipelines hardened.

MVP delivery

2×

Faster dev cycles at Wefi. Cut deployment time in half.

04 / Stack

The toolkit.

Stack-flexible — the right tool, not the trendy one.

Backend

Python
FastAPI
Django
Flask
Node.js
Express
NestJS
gRPC
REST
GraphQL

Frontend

React
React Native
Next.js
Redux
PWA
Service Workers

Data

PostgreSQL
MySQL
SQL Server
MongoDB
Redis
Elasticsearch
SQLAlchemy + Alembic
Prisma
RabbitMQ

AI / LLM

Groq
llama-3.3-70b
llama-3.1-8b
gemma2-9b
OpenAI SDK
RAG
Conversation memory
Custom personas

Infra / DevOps

AWS EC2 / S3
Cloudflare R2
Firebase
Docker
Kubernetes
Helm
Nginx
systemd
Let's Encrypt
Heroku

Scraping / Automation

yt-dlp
Playwright
Selenium
Scrapy
BeautifulSoup
Baileys
Proxy rotation
Anti-bot

Payments / Auth

Stripe
Firebase Auth
JWT
OAuth
Google Maps

Process

Solo shipping
MVP delivery
Team leadership
Agile / Scrum
Stakeholder comms

05 / Experience

Selected experience.

A condensed timeline. The full version is on the resume.

Aug 2025 — Present
Independent Software Engineer

Contract Consulting
- Ship full-stack production services solo for clients across fintech, consumer SaaS, and media — FastAPI, Postgres/SQLite, Stripe, Nginx, systemd, Let's Encrypt. Multiple converter suites, content sites, and job boards in active production.
- Built a 4,500+ record lead-generation pipeline end-to-end: Google search → BeautifulSoup scraping → auto-generated PDF audit reports → Groq LLM-driven WhatsApp outreach (Baileys) with conversation memory and summarization.
- Engineered a cross-platform social-content aggregator (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X) on FastAPI + Postgres + Firebase Auth + Cloudflare R2 — with anti-bot yt-dlp infrastructure surviving data-center IP blocks.
Aug 2024 — Jul 2025
Lead Technical Role

Wefi · Fintech
- Led MVP delivery in Python Django + machine learning + React Native, shipping to production in 3 months.
- Rebuilt DevOps pipelines, cutting deployment time in half and removing the manual release bottleneck.
May 2023 — Jul 2024
Full Stack Engineer

ReComune
- Shipped React Native mobile MVP in 2 months; cut backend response times 30% and integrated AI services into core product flows.
- Owned DevOps: managed EC2 fleet, automated deployments, maintained 99.9% uptime.
Mar 2022 — May 2023
Senior Software Engineer

ServionZero
- Delivered 3 product architectures from scratch within a single year, including a UK product launch; introduced a centralized cryptocurrency system streamlining transactions across products.
Apr 2020 — Mar 2022
Senior Software Engineer

SpireTech · Fintech
- Implemented core fintech modules (audit logs, policy management, savings products) for a commercial launch; built microservices on Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm — cutting deployment time 40%.

06 / About

How I work.

Riyadh, KSA

I'm Muhammad Shoaib Amin — independent software engineer who ships production end-to-end, solo. Seven+ years scaling fintech MVPs and enterprise backends; now contracting on AI-integrated SaaS and consumer products.

I deliver finished MVPs in 2–3 months across FastAPI, LLM agents, React Native, and the full DevOps stack underneath. I run live services on my own infrastructure with TLS, monitoring, backups, and on-call setup from day one. Daily or weekly written updates depending on stage; real-time for blockers.

"No prototypes, no hand-offs. Working product over polished spec — iterate after launch with real data."

If you're a founder building your first MVP, a small team that needs a full-stack engineer who can also handle DevOps, or anyone integrating AI / scraping at scale — that's the lane.

07 / Contact

Let's build it.

Pick a channel. Real responses, usually within a day. No funnels, no calendars in 7 layers.

Email muhammad.shoaib.builds@gmail.com → WhatsApp +92 331 211 1050 → Upwork shoaib-amin → Fiverr shoaibamin001 → LinkedIn /in/shoaib-amin → GitHub shoaibamin-dev →