Ship fast.
Break nothing.
I'm Sheryar Ahmed, a full-stack engineer who builds and operates production. My stack runs live for 3,000+ users, and you can watch it work below.
watch it work
500K emails a month, live
The pipeline I built for Pathment, on plain PostgreSQL. No Redis. No queues to babysit. This is a faithful simulation of it; the real one is sending mail right now.
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What I've actually shipped
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Ships daily, on record
the wall
Companies & clients
where the reps came from
Experience
stack
Tools I reach for
Languages
typed by default
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Python
- SQL
Frontend
ship the product, not the framework
- React
- Next.js
- React Native
- Redux
- Tailwind CSS
Backend
boring, observable, fast
- Node.js
- Express
- FastAPI
- GraphQL
- REST APIs
Data
Postgres until it hurts
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- MySQL
- MongoDB
Realtime & Messaging
500K emails/mo on plain SQL
- SSE
- WebSockets / Socket.io
- Redis Pub/Sub
- Kafka
- NATS
- Bull
Observability
on-call for my own schemas
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Loki
- Tempo
AI / LLM
validated, sanitized, repaired
- Multi-provider LLM pipelines
- RAG
- Vector search
- Structured-output validation
Cloud & DevOps
zero-downtime by runbook
- Docker
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure (Container Apps, Entra ID)
- Kubernetes
- GitHub Actions
- Nginx
- Caddy
- Linux
Tooling
- Git
- Jest
- Postman
- Stripe
- Microsoft Graph API
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Things I've shipped
A few production systems I designed, built, and ran end to end. Not demos.
Pathment
Open-source mentorship infrastructure I created and operate, 3,000+ users, 20+ contributors, 500+ production deployments, 500K emails/month on a Postgres queue.
3,000+ users across admin, mentor, and mentee roles
500K emails/month through the Postgres queue, no broker outages, no Redis to operate
500+ production deployments with zero-downtime releases
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HealthSIA
A patient–therapist–surgeon communication and perioperative care platform with role-based dashboards and real-time chat.
Platform adopted across multiple clinics, improving patient engagement and care coordination
Reduced API response time by ~40%
Streamlined clinical workflows and operational efficiency
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Let's talk
Hiring for someone to own production end to end? Tell me what you're building. I read everything and reply within 24 hours.
Get in touch
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Open to full-time roles and serious consulting work. The fastest way to know if I'm your engineer: open Pathment, click around, then email me the hardest thing on your roadmap.
Response Time
I typically respond within 24 hours. For urgent matters, reach out via LinkedIn.