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.
Projects & Work
A selection of products and systems I've designed, built, and shipped.
High-Performance E-Commerce Platform
2023Built 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.
Real-Time Collaboration Tool
2023Notion-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.
Analytics & Reporting Dashboard
2022Data-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.
Skills & Technologies
5+ years of full-stack mastery across frontend, backend, and AI systems.
Frontend
Backend
AI / ML
DevOps & Tools
Also familiar with:
HackerRank Certifications
8 verified certifications across core web development disciplines — each backed by timed, proctored assessments.
JavaScript (Intermediate)
Asynchronous JS, closures, prototypes, ES6+ features
React (Basic)
Hooks, state management, component patterns
Node.js (Intermediate)
Event loop, streams, REST APIs, file system
CSS (Intermediate)
Flexbox, Grid, animations, responsive design
SQL (Intermediate)
Joins, subqueries, window functions, indexing
Python (Basic)
Data types, comprehensions, OOP, standard library
REST API (Intermediate)
HTTP verbs, authentication, pagination, error handling
Problem Solving (Basic)
Data structures, sorting algorithms, pattern matching
What Clients Say
Feedback from engineering managers and founders I've partnered with.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
Get in Touch
Open to full-time roles, contract work, and interesting freelance projects. Especially interested in EU-based or fully remote opportunities.
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