I build the part of your app that has to keep working.
The data, the payments, the messages, the AI. If it works, nobody notices. If it breaks, everyone does.
I've done this for eight years, mostly for other people's products rather than my own.
Learning to build things that think.
What I'm doing now
A tool for managers and their teams
Goals and feedback lived in spreadsheets and email. Nobody read them until review season, and then everyone wrote a year of notes in a week.
We built the part that keeps goals and check-ins in one place, and keeps them private. It handles sign-ins and payments, and it uses AI to help write the feedback nobody wants to write. I decided how the pieces fit together.
A WhatsApp helper for a gas company
Customers ask for help on WhatsApp, usually with a voice note or a blurry photo of a bill. Someone had to listen to it, type it out, find the account, and copy a bill number across by hand.
Our system reads the message, looks up the customer, and answers. Voice notes become text, and photos get checked before they go anywhere.
A quoting tool for electrical equipment
A quote depends on a pile of rules: one choice changes the next one. Most of those rules lived in a few people’s heads, so quotes were built by hand, slowly, and checked twice.
We built the part that takes the order, works through the choices, checks it with AI, and builds the quote. The rules live in software now, where they can be tested.
I can't share the code or name the clients. That's how client work goes.
Lately
- How much AI a product really needs, and when a plain feature is the better answer.
- Keeping software simple enough that someone new can understand it.
- The gym, which has nothing to do with the other two.
About
I'm Faiq. I've spent eight years building the back end of apps: the part that holds the data and talks to everything else.
I'm good at the boring questions. Where does this number come from? What happens if two people click at once? What breaks first when the site gets busy?
Outside work: fitness, philosophy, and finding out how things work.
Contact
Email me and tell me what you're building and where it's stuck. I'll tell you straight if I can help.
I'm open to side projects, and to full-time work if it's the right fit.