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Available · 2026

Buildingsoftwarethatactuallymatters.

Full-Stack Engineer crafting performant, scalable digital products. Turning complex problems into clean, elegant solutions.

Role
Engineer
Years
5+
Stack
TS · Next · Node
Status
Open · Remote
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01About
Portrait of Gohar Ellahi
Gohar · 00012026

The human behind the code.

I build software that ships — and keeps shipping. Five years of turning vague product specs into systems teams can trust, evolve, and operate without me hovering over them.

My instinct is to find the smallest change that moves the metric, then keep the codebase simple enough that the next engineer (often me, six months later) can move just as fast. I'm equally happy debating database indexes, refactoring a tangled React tree, or sitting in a stakeholder call to clarify what the feature actually needs to do.

Currently open to senior full-stack roles, freelance product builds, and the occasional weekend collaboration on something genuinely interesting.

01 · Years building for the web0+
02 · Production systems shipped0
03 · Teams collaborated with0
02Toolkit

Tools I reach for, first.

A focused stack refined over five years of shipping. Boring tech that scales — I reach for the new stuff only when it earns its place.

TypeScript5y
React5y
Next.js4y
Tailwind CSS4y
Framer Motion3y
Vue.js3y
GraphQL3y
03Selected Work

Things I've shipped.

Four projects I'm proud of — built end-to-end, with real users on the other side of the deploy button.

P-0012025
AA
120M+Events ingested daily
<400msp95 query latency
62 KBBundle size
Tech Lead · Full-Stack2025

Atlas Analytics

Self-hosted product analytics that respects your users.

A privacy-first alternative to Mixpanel built for product teams who can't ship third-party trackers to their users. Cuts time-to-insight from days to seconds with a query builder that compiles to raw SQL — fast on 100M+ event tables, no sampling.

Next.jsTypeScriptClickHousePostgresRedisTailwind
P-0022024
H
78sAvg spin-up
$0.04Cost per preview
40+Teams onboarded
Founding Engineer2024

Harbor

PR previews that match production, every time.

An ephemeral environment platform that spins up a production-shaped clone for every pull request — database, queues, secrets, and all — in under 90 seconds. Replaced a brittle staging server that the whole team was queuing on.

GoKubernetesTerraformReactPostgres
P-0032024
CC
−74%Time-to-publish
200+Active editors
100Lighthouse score
Product Engineer2024

Cadence CMS

A headless CMS designers actually want to use.

An opinionated content platform for marketing teams: visual editing, structured content, and a Git-backed audit log. Built after watching three product launches stall because the existing CMS was unusable for non-engineers.

Next.jsReacttRPCPlanetScaleS3
P-0042023
S
42msEnd-to-end latency
12Concurrent editors
1.1sCold start
Solo Build2023

Soundlattice

Real-time collaborative music production in the browser.

A WebAudio-based DAW that lets multiple producers edit the same session simultaneously, with sub-50ms latency over WebRTC. Built as a deep-dive into operational transforms and audio worklets — became my favourite weekend project to date.

TypeScriptWebAudioWebRTCYjsRust (WASM)
04Trajectory

Where I've worked.

Five years across studios, startups, and scale-ups. The throughline: building things people actually use.

  1. 01Mar 2024 — Present
    Remote

    Senior Software Engineer at Stratus Labs

    Lead engineer on the analytics platform. Own the data pipeline end-to-end, from SDK to dashboard.

    • Cut p95 dashboard load time from 4.2s to 380ms by introducing ClickHouse and rewriting the query layer.
    • Designed and shipped the multi-tenant billing system that now backs $2.1M ARR.
    • Mentored 3 mid-level engineers; two were promoted to senior within 12 months.
    Next.jsTypeScriptClickHousePostgresAWS
  2. 02Jul 2022 — Feb 2024
    Hybrid · Lahore, PK

    Full-Stack Engineer at Northwind

    Second engineer at a Series A B2B SaaS. Shipped the platform that grew the company from 8 to 60 customers.

    • Rebuilt the billing flow from scratch; reduced failed payments by 38% in the first quarter.
    • Owned the migration from a Rails monolith to a TypeScript service-oriented architecture without a single hour of customer-facing downtime.
    • Stood up the engineering's first observability stack (Sentry + Grafana + structured logs); MTTR dropped from 4 hours to 22 minutes.
    TypeScriptNode.jsReactPostgresStripe
  3. 03Sep 2020 — Jun 2022
    Lahore, PK

    Software Engineer at Indigo Studio

    Built bespoke product MVPs for venture-backed founders across fintech, logistics, and consumer health.

    • Delivered 11 production MVPs, three of which raised follow-on rounds and one acquired.
    • Established the studio's frontend conventions and component library — reduced project kick-off time by ~3 weeks.
    • Wrote the internal estimation playbook still used today; cut scope-creep escalations in half.
    ReactNext.jsNode.jsMongoDBGCP
05Recommendations

What people say.

Gohar is one of those rare engineers who understands the product and the business as deeply as the code. He shipped features I'd been told were a quarter of work in two weeks — and the code was the cleanest in the codebase.
Maya Reyes
VP of Engineering · Stratus Labs
We hired Gohar for one project and ended up working with him for three years. Ships fast, communicates faster, and never leaves a mess for the next person. The kind of engineer you build a company around.
James Okafor
Co-founder & CTO · Northwind
A developer I'd trust to own anything end-to-end. Took our vague product brief, asked the three questions that mattered, and delivered something better than what we'd asked for.
Priya Sharma
Head of Product · Indigo Studio
The most thoughtful PR reviewer I've worked with. He's made me a better engineer just by leaving comments on my code.
Daniel Hwang
Senior Engineer · Stratus Labs
Gohar is one of those rare engineers who understands the product and the business as deeply as the code. He shipped features I'd been told were a quarter of work in two weeks — and the code was the cleanest in the codebase.
Maya Reyes
VP of Engineering · Stratus Labs
We hired Gohar for one project and ended up working with him for three years. Ships fast, communicates faster, and never leaves a mess for the next person. The kind of engineer you build a company around.
James Okafor
Co-founder & CTO · Northwind
A developer I'd trust to own anything end-to-end. Took our vague product brief, asked the three questions that mattered, and delivered something better than what we'd asked for.
Priya Sharma
Head of Product · Indigo Studio
The most thoughtful PR reviewer I've worked with. He's made me a better engineer just by leaving comments on my code.
Daniel Hwang
Senior Engineer · Stratus Labs
06Contact

Let's build something.

Open to senior full-stack roles, freelance product builds, and the occasional weekend collaboration on something genuinely interesting.

I read every message personally