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AFZAL
IMDAD.

Dynamic Full Stack Developer crafting exceptional digital experiences. MERN & MEAN Maestro, Blockchain innovator, and AI enthusiast. حسبی اللہ

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// Open to work 🚀
const afzal = {
  name: "Afzal Imdad",
  location: "Karachi, Pakistan 🇵🇰",
  role: "Full Stack Developer",
  stack: [
    "React", "Next.js", "TypeScript",
    "Solidity", "Python", "Rust"
  ],
  passion: ["Web3", "AI", "OSS"],
  openToWork: true,
  motto: "حسبی اللہ"
};

export default afzal;

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Full StackWeb · Mobile · Blockchain

Crafting Digital
Experiences That Matter

I'm a passionate Full Stack Developer, Designer & Creator — building both client-side and server-side of web applications with expertise in the MERN & MEAN stacks, exploring AI, the Metaverse, and Web3.

I craft smart contracts and dApps on Ethereum and other EVM-compatible chains, design polished UI/UX in Figma, and integrate LLMs into real-world products. My own npm package express-generator-typescript has been starred by 160⁺ developers worldwide.

Every line of code I write is driven by a belief that technology should solve real problems. حسبی اللہ

Location: Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan 🇵🇰
Roles: Full Stack Developer · Blockchain Dev · AI Integrator · UI/UX Designer · Creator
Languages: English (Professional) · Urdu (Native)
Experience: 3⁺ years · 50⁺ projects delivered
Education: B.S. Computer Science — Class of 2024
Platforms: Upwork · Fiverr · Toptal · Freelancer · GitHub · Medium

☕ Coffee-fueled coder 🌙 Night owl developer 📚 Continuous learner ⛓️ Web3 enthusiast 🤖 AI explorer 🎨 UI/UX Designer 🌐 Metaverse explorer 🎮 Game developer 📦 npm package author 🕌 حسبی اللہ

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Skills & Technologies

Frontend Dev

React.js95%

Next.js92%

TypeScript90%

Tailwind CSS93%

GSAP / Framer Motion85%

Vue / Angular / Svelte80%

Backend Dev

Node.js / Express93%

NestJS85%

Python / FastAPI / Django85%

PostgreSQL / MongoDB88%

GQL / REST APIs90%

Redis / Prisma / Drizzle82%

Blockchain & Web3

Solidity85%

Hardhat / Foundry82%

Ethers.js / Viem / Wagmi88%

OpenZeppelin82%

DeFi Protocols78%

IPFS / The Graph75%

Mobile Dev

React Native / Expo88%

Flutter / Dart80%

iOS (SwiftUI)65%

Android (Kotlin)70%

DevOps & Cloud

Docker / Kubernetes85%

AWS / GCP / Azure78%

GitHub Actions / CI/CD88%

Nginx / Vercel / Railway90%

Terraform / IaC68%

AI & ML

OpenAI API / LLMs90%

LangChain / LlamaIndex82%

RAG / Vector DBs78%

TensorFlow / PyTorch70%

Python AI Stack80%

Testing & QA

Jest / Vitest88%

Playwright / Cypress82%

React Testing Library85%

Postman / Supertest90%

Hardhat / Foundry Tests85%

TDD / BDD78%

Design & Tools

Figma88%

Adobe CC (Ps, Ai, Xd)80%

Tailwind / CSS Animations93%

GSAP / Framer Motion / Lottie87%

Design Systems / Tokens82%

Responsive / Accessible UI95%

Databases & Data

PostgreSQL / MySQL88%

MongoDB / Mongoose90%

Redis / Memcached82%

Supabase / Firebase85%

Elasticsearch / Algolia75%

Vector DBs (Pinecone, Weaviate)78%

Architecture & Patterns

SOLID / Clean Architecture85%

Microservices / Monorepo82%

DDD / CQRS / Event Sourcing75%

GoF Design Patterns80%

REST / GQL / gRPC / tRPC90%

System Design / Scalability78%

Programming Languages

JavaScript / TypeScript95%

Python88%

Solidity85%

Dart / Swift / Kotlin75%

Go / Rust65%

C / C++ / Java72%

CMS & E-Commerce

WordPress / WooCommerce88%

Shopify / Liquid82%

Strapi / Payload CMS85%

Sanity / Contentful80%

Medusa / Saleor72%

Stripe / Payment APIs87%

Game Development

Phaser.js (HTML5 2D)85%

Three.js (3D / WebGL)80%

Canvas API / Physics88%

Unity (C#)60%

Babylon.js / PixiJS72%

Game Loop / AI / Pathfinding78%

Auth & Security

JWT / OAuth 2.0 / OIDC90%

Clerk / Auth0 / Lucia88%

NextAuth.js / Auth.js87%

WebAuthn / Passkeys75%

RBAC / ABAC82%

OWASP / CSP / HSTS80%

TanStack Start TanStack Query TanStack Router Zustand Jotai Zod Prisma Drizzle ORM tRPC Socket.io ShadCN UI Radix UI Sanity CMS Strapi Stripe BullMQ Apache Kafka ElasticSearch Playwright Vitest Jest Three.js Phaser.js RainbowKit WalletConnect Pinecone Hugging Face Ollama CrewAI Go / Gin Rust / Actix C / C++ Unity Figma Adobe XD Vite Webpack esbuild Turborepo pnpm Cypress Postman Redux Toolkit SWC ESLint Prettier Supabase Firebase Clerk NextAuth.js Auth0 Nginx Kubernetes Terraform Prometheus Grafana RabbitMQ Shopify WordPress Payload CMS Medusa Deno Bun Astro SvelteKit SolidJS WebAssembly Rive OpenCV Pandas NumPy PyTorch Pydantic FastAPI Solana Move ZK Proofs

GitHub open source statistics
Repository	Stars ⭐	Language	Status
8Ball-Pool-HTML5	24	JavaScript	Active ✓
animated-portfolio	53	Next.js	Active ✓
express-generator-typescript	18	TypeScript	Active ✓
MusicApp	8	Next.js	Active ✓
games-player	1	HTML	~~Archived~~
Total	160+ stars	65+ repositories

Experience & Education

2022 — Present Full-time
Full Stack Developer
Freelance / Remote

📍 Remote · Pakistan

Building full-stack web applications for clients worldwide. Specializing in MERN/MEAN stack, blockchain solutions, and AI-powered applications.
- Delivered 50⁺ projects across web, mobile, and blockchain domains
- Built dApps with Solidity smart contracts on Ethereum
- Integrated AI APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude) into production apps
- Cross-platform mobile apps with Flutter & React Native
- Full CI/CD pipelines — Docker, GitHub Actions, Vercel
Tech stack details

Primary languages: TypeScript, Python, Solidity. Using Next.js for SSR, Node.js + Express/NestJS for APIs, PostgreSQL + MongoDB for data, and Hardhat / Foundry for smart contract testing. Ctrl+Shift+P is my best friend in VS Code. Variables like gasLimit and slippage keep me up at night.

ReactNext.jsNode.js TypeScriptSolidityFlutter PythonAWS
2021 — Present Open Source
Open Source Contributor
GitHub · @afzalimdad9

🌐 Open Source

Active contributor to OSS. Created repositories including portfolio templates, games, and developer tools.
- 8Ball Pool HTML5 game — 24⁺ GitHub stars
- Animated portfolio template — 53⁺ forks
- express-generator-typescript — TypeScript Express CLI scaffolding
- 160⁺ combined stars across 65⁺ repositories
JavaScriptTypeScript HTML5CSS3 ReactNext.js
2020 — 2024 Education
B.S. Computer Science
University · Pakistan

🎓 Karachi, Pakistan

Built a strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and software engineering while shipping real-world projects.
- Data Structures, Algorithms & System Design
- Projects across 10⁺ programming languages
- Agile/Scrum team project leadership
- Research in AI/ML and Blockchain
C++JavaPython JavaScriptReactNode.js

Featured Projects

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Featured ⭐ 24

8Ball Pool HTML5

Fully functional 8-ball pool game with HTML5 Canvas and realistic physics. Play against AI or 2nd player.

HTML5 Canvas
JavaScript
Physics

Featured ⭐ 53

Animated Portfolio

Creative & animated portfolio template built with Next.js. Forked and starred by 53+ developers worldwide.

Next.js
React
CSS Animations

⭐ 18

`express-generator-typescript`

Scaffolding CLI — create a new Express app with full TypeScript setup, production-ready out of the box.

Node.js
TypeScript
CLI Tool

⭐ 8

Music Streaming App

Sleek music streaming app with smooth audio playback, modern UI, and great listening experience built with Next.js.

Next.js
Audio API
TypeScript

DeFi Smart Contracts

Production-ready ERC20, ERC721, staking, and AMM pool contracts. Fully tested with Hardhat.

Solidity
Hardhat
OpenZeppelin

⭐ 1

Games Player

Uses Ruffle to run Flash games in the browser — preserving classic web gaming history for future generations.

HTML
Ruffle
Flash

Tools & Platforms

IDEs & Editors

★ Zed
★ VS Code
WebStorm / IntelliJ
Neovim
Android Studio
Xcode

Version Control

★ Git / GitHub
GitLab
GitHub Actions
Git Flow / GitHub Flow
Git Hooks / Husky
Git LFS

Cloud & Hosting

★ Vercel / Netlify
★ AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda)
GCP / Azure
Railway / Render
DigitalOcean
Supabase / Firebase

API & Testing

★ Postman / Bruno
Insomnia / Hoppscotch
GraphiQL / Altair
Playwright / Cypress
Jest / Vitest
k6 (load testing)

DevOps & Infra

★ Docker / Compose
Kubernetes / Helm
Nginx / Caddy
Terraform / Pulumi
Prometheus / Grafana
ELK Stack

Productivity

★ Notion / Obsidian
Jira / ClickUp / Trello
Slack / Discord
Warp Terminal
tmux / fzf / ripgrep
OBS / Loom

Freelance Platforms

★ Upwork
★ Fiverr
Toptal
Freelancer.com
PeoplePerHour
Contra / AngelList

Communities

★ GitHub
★ Medium / Dev.to
Stack Overflow
Hashnode
CodePen / CodeSandbox
Hacker News

Architecture & Patterns

SOLID Principles

Single Responsibility Principle
Open / Closed Principle
Liskov Substitution Principle
Interface Segregation Principle
Dependency Inversion Principle

GoF Design Patterns

Creational: Factory, Builder, Singleton, Prototype
Structural: Adapter, Decorator, Facade, Proxy
Behavioral: Observer, Strategy, Command, Iterator

App Architecture

Clean Architecture · Onion Architecture
Microservices · Serverless · Monorepo
DDD — Bounded Contexts, Aggregates
CQRS · Event Sourcing · EDA
Hexagonal (Ports & Adapters)

Resilience Patterns

Circuit Breaker · Retry · Timeout
Bulkhead · Rate Limiting · Throttling
Fallback · Graceful Degradation
Health Check · Leader Election

Deployment Patterns

Blue-Green · Canary · Rolling
Feature Flags · A/B Testing
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Immutable Infrastructure

Core Principles

DRY · KISS · YAGNI
Separation of Concerns
Dependency Injection · IoC
Idempotency · Immutability
Fail Fast · Command-Query Separation

CS Fundamentals

Data Structures

Arrays · Linked Lists · Stacks & Queues
Hash Tables · Sets · Maps
Trees (BST, AVL, Red-Black)
Heaps · Tries · Graphs

Algorithms

Sorting: Quick, Merge, Heap, Insertion
Search: Binary, BFS, DFS
Dynamic Programming · Greedy
Graph: Dijkstra, A*, Bellman-Ford
Big O — Time & Space Complexity

Operating Systems

Processes & Threads · Concurrency
Mutex / Semaphore · Deadlocks
Memory Management · Virtual Memory
File Systems · Scheduling Algorithms

Networking

OSI Model · TCP/IP Stack
HTTP/1.1 · HTTP/2 · HTTP/3 (QUIC)
DNS · CDN · Load Balancing
SSL/TLS · VPN · WebSockets

System Design

Sharding · Replication · Caching
CAP Theorem · Consistent Hashing
Distributed Transactions (SAGA, 2PC)
Consensus: Paxos · Raft
Message Queues · Event-Driven

Database Theory

ACID · BASE · Isolation Levels
Indexing: B-Tree · Hash
Normalization · Denormalization
Query Optimization · Transactions

Security Fundamentals

Cryptography: Symmetric / Asymmetric
Hashing · Digital Signatures · PKI
OWASP Top 10 · Threat Modeling
XSS · CSRF · SQLi Prevention

Math for ML

Linear Algebra: Vectors · Matrices · SVD
Calculus: Gradients · Chain Rule
Probability · Bayes' Theorem
Optimization: Adam · SGD · RMSprop

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The M.I.N.T Principal: OOP in TypeScript

A new guideline for when to use OOP in TypeScript — and when to reach for functional patterns instead.

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JavaScript
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New JavaScript Pipeline Operator: One-Liners for Everything

The pipeline operator proposal brings functional composition to JS natively. Change the way you chain operations.

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What Clients Say

Afzal delivered a complete dApp ahead of schedule. His Solidity code was clean, well-tested, and gas-optimized. Highly recommended for any Web3 project.

Ahmed R. — Blockchain Startup Founder

The AI-powered dashboard Afzal built for us exceeded all expectations. Real-time data, beautiful UI, and the LLM integration worked flawlessly.

Sarah M. — SaaS Product Manager

Afzal rewrote our legacy JS codebase in TypeScript. Performance improved dramatically — response times dropped from ~~800ms~~ to 120ms.

James K. — Engineering Lead, Fintech

Certifications & Learning

Cloud

TargetAWS Solutions Architect
TargetAzure Developer Associate
TargetGCP Professional Developer

DevOps

TargetCKA / CKAD
TargetHashiCorp Terraform Associate
TargetDocker Certified Associate

Development

TargetOpenJS Node.js Developer
TargetMeta Front-End Professional
TargetMongoDB Developer Associate

AI/ML & Security

TargetTensorFlow Developer Certificate
TargetAWS ML Specialty
TargetCompTIA Security+

Frontend Masters Egghead.io Coursera Udemy edX O'Reilly Learning LeetCode Exercism Codewars HackerRank The Odin Project freeCodeCamp

Professional Skills

Core Professional

Communication & Collaboration
Leadership & Teamwork
Problem Solving & Critical Thinking
Creativity & Innovation
Adaptability & Resilience
Attention to Detail

Business & Strategy

IT Consulting · Client Management
Technical Sales & Proposal Writing
Branding & Personal Marketing
Budgeting & Cost Optimization
Contract Negotiation
Vendor Management

Agile & Project Mgmt

Scrum (Master & PO roles)
Kanban · Lean · SAFe
Sprint Planning · Retrospectives
Jira · ClickUp · Notion
Team Building · Mentoring

Content & Growth

Technical Writing & Blogging
Public Speaking & Presentation
Open Source Contributions
Mentorship (mentor & mentee)
Knowledge Sharing
Continuous Learning (OKRs, SMART)

Frequently Asked Questions

What is your typical project timeline?

It depends on scope. A typical LP takes 1–2 weeks, a full-stack MVP takes 4–8 weeks, and a complex dApp with smart contracts may take 2–4 months. I use tools like Linear and GitHub Projects to keep everything transparent and on track.

Do you work with smart contract audits?

Yes — I write Solidity contracts using OpenZeppelin and test them thoroughly with Hardhat and Foundry. I follow security best practices to prevent common vulnerabilities like reentrancy, integer overflow, and access control issues. For production contracts, I recommend a professional audit from a dedicated firm.

What's your preferred tech stack in 2025?

For frontend: Next.js + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS + TanStack Query. For backend: Node.js + NestJS + PostgreSQL + Prisma. For AI: Python + FastAPI + LangChain. For Web3: Solidity + Wagmi + Viem.

Are you available for long-term contracts?

Absolutely. I'm open to both project-based engagements and long-term retainer arrangements. Send me an email at afzalimdad9@gmail.com or connect on LinkedIn to discuss what you need.

What CS fundamentals and architectural patterns do you apply?

I apply SOLID principles, GoF design patterns (Factory, Observer, Strategy, Decorator), and architectural styles including Clean Architecture, Microservices, DDD, and CQRS. For system design I reason about CAP theorem, consistent hashing, database sharding, and distributed transactions (SAGA, 2PC). I use Data Structures & Algorithms knowledge actively — choosing the right structure (BST, Heap, Trie, Graph) for the problem saves orders of magnitude in performance.

For API design I choose between REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and tRPC based on use case. Real-time needs get WebSockets or SSE.

Do you handle testing, CI/CD and DevOps yourself?

Yes — I write unit tests with Jest/Vitest, integration and E2E tests with Playwright/Cypress, and API tests with Supertest/Postman. Smart contracts get tested through Hardhat and Foundry. I follow TDD where it adds value.

For CI/CD I set up GitHub Actions pipelines covering lint → test → build → deploy. I containerise with Docker, orchestrate with Kubernetes, provision infra with Terraform, and monitor with Prometheus + Grafana.

Let's Build Something Amazing

Whether you have a project in mind, want to collaborate, or just say hello — my inbox is always open. I typically respond within 24 hours.

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AFZAL IMDAD.

About Me

Crafting DigitalExperiences That Matter

Skills & Technologies

Experience & Education

Featured Projects

8Ball Pool HTML5

Animated Portfolio

express-generator-typescript

Music Streaming App

DeFi Smart Contracts

Games Player

Tools & Platforms

Architecture & Patterns

CS Fundamentals

Latest Articles

Why I chose Zed over Visual Studio Code

The M.I.N.T Principal: OOP in TypeScript

New JavaScript Pipeline Operator: One-Liners for Everything

What Clients Say

Certifications & Learning

Professional Skills

Frequently Asked Questions

Let's Build Something Amazing

Send Me a Message 💬

AFZAL
IMDAD.

Crafting Digital
Experiences That Matter

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