Open to EU & Remote rolesFinland / Remote

Muhammad Zulqarnain

Full-Stack Engineer — React • Node.js • AI/RAG Systems

With 5+ years of experience building high-performance, scalable web applications, I've shipped impactful features for products used by millions — including Quran.com, one of the world's most visited Islamic platforms. I specialise in React, Node.js, TypeScript, and AI-powered pipelines.

5+
Years Experience
30+
Projects Shipped
10M+
Users Reached
👨‍💻
ReactNode.jsTypeScriptNext.jsAI/RAG
Portfolio

Projects & Work

A selection of products and systems I've designed, built, and shipped.

AI-Powered RAG Pipeline

AI / EnterpriseFeatured2024

Enterprise-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system enabling intelligent document search and Q&A. Ingests thousands of PDFs, indexes them into a vector store, and serves accurate AI-generated answers via a REST API — reducing manual search time by 80%.

  • Sub-500ms retrieval latency at scale
  • 99.9% uptime SLA on enterprise infra
  • Handles 50k+ documents per tenant
Node.jsLangChainOpenAI APIPineconeTypeScriptExpress

Quran.com — Core Platform

Open Source2022–2024

Major contributor to Quran.com, one of the world's largest Islamic platforms serving 10M+ monthly users. Led performance initiatives that reduced LCP by 45% and improved Core Web Vitals scores. Built new audio player infrastructure and revamped search.

  • 10M+ monthly active users
  • 45% improvement in LCP
  • Led audio player rebuild
Next.jsReactTypeScriptRuby on RailsPostgreSQLRedis

High-Performance E-Commerce Platform

2023

Built a full-stack multi-vendor marketplace from scratch with real-time inventory, payment processing (Stripe), and a seller analytics dashboard. Handles 2,000+ concurrent users with <200ms API response times.

ReactNode.jsPostgreSQLStripe

Real-Time Collaboration Tool

2023

Notion-like collaborative editor with real-time multi-user editing powered by CRDTs. Features include rich text editing, nested blocks, inline comments, and presence indicators. Built a custom operational transform layer.

ReactYjsWebSocketsNode.js

Analytics & Reporting Dashboard

2022

Data-heavy SaaS dashboard for product analytics with custom chart library, cohort analysis, funnel visualisation, and scheduled PDF report exports. Processes 100M+ events/day via a streaming pipeline.

ReactD3.jsNode.jsClickHouse
Technical Expertise

Skills & Technologies

5+ years of full-stack mastery across frontend, backend, and AI systems.

Frontend

React95%
Next.js92%
TypeScript90%
Tailwind CSS88%
Redux / Zustand85%

Backend

Node.js93%
Express / Fastify90%
GraphQL82%
PostgreSQL85%
Redis80%

AI / ML

LangChain85%
OpenAI API88%
Pinecone / pgvector80%
RAG Pipelines83%
Prompt Engineering86%

DevOps & Tools

Docker / K8s78%
AWS / GCP75%
CI/CD (GitHub Actions)85%
Git95%
Cloudflare (Pages/Workers)80%

Also familiar with:

Ruby on RailsMongoDBPrismaClickHouseKafkaYjs / CRDTsD3.jsStripe APICloudflare WorkersJestPlaywrightStorybook
Verified Skills

HackerRank Certifications

8 verified certifications across core web development disciplines — each backed by timed, proctored assessments.

HackerRank Profile: @mzulqarnain118
8 verified skill certificates • All certifications issued 2022–2023
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JS

JavaScript (Intermediate)

HackerRank Verified2023

Asynchronous JS, closures, prototypes, ES6+ features

Re

React (Basic)

HackerRank Verified2023

Hooks, state management, component patterns

No

Node.js (Intermediate)

HackerRank Verified2023

Event loop, streams, REST APIs, file system

CSS

CSS (Intermediate)

HackerRank Verified2022

Flexbox, Grid, animations, responsive design

SQL

SQL (Intermediate)

HackerRank Verified2022

Joins, subqueries, window functions, indexing

Py

Python (Basic)

HackerRank Verified2023

Data types, comprehensions, OOP, standard library

API

REST API (Intermediate)

HackerRank Verified2023

HTTP verbs, authentication, pagination, error handling

PS

Problem Solving (Basic)

HackerRank Verified2022

Data structures, sorting algorithms, pattern matching

Social Proof

What Clients Say

Feedback from engineering managers and founders I've partnered with.

Project: Quran.com Performance Initiative

Zunain was instrumental in our Core Web Vitals overhaul. He identified and resolved the LCP bottlenecks that had been plaguing our mobile experience for months — the result was a 45% improvement that directly correlated with a measurable uplift in user retention. He writes clean, well-reasoned code and communicates tradeoffs exceptionally well. One of the best engineers we've worked with.

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Ibrahim Al-Farsi
Engineering Manager Quran.com
Project: AI-Powered RAG Pipeline

We brought Zunain in to build our RAG-based document intelligence platform and he delivered beyond expectations. The pipeline he architected — using LangChain, Pinecone, and the OpenAI API — handles 50,000+ enterprise documents with sub-500ms query latency. He understood our domain quickly and made excellent architectural decisions around chunking strategy and metadata filtering. The system has been running in production for six months without any incidents.

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Sarah Müller
CTO DocuSearch AI
Project: Analytics & Reporting Dashboard

Zunain built our analytics dashboard from scratch — a highly data-intensive React + Node.js application processing over 100 million events per day. He designed the ClickHouse schema, built a custom D3 chart library tailored to our UX needs, and shipped the entire thing on time. He's self-directed, thorough in testing, and a fantastic communicator across time zones. We're very much hoping to work with him again.

ML
Mattias Lindqvist
Product Lead Nordic SaaS Co.
Let's Work Together

Get in Touch

Open to full-time roles, contract work, and interesting freelance projects. Especially interested in EU-based or fully remote opportunities.

Availability

Location
Finland (EU) / Remote
Timezone
EET (UTC+2/+3)
Available for new opportunities
Full-time • Contract • Remote • Finland/EU

Send a Message

The fastest way to reach me is via email. I typically reply within 24 hours on weekdays.

mzulqarnain118@gmail.com

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