AmmarTariq
Software engineer working in React Native, React, TypeScript, and Node.js — full-stack products from Karachi for remote teams.
- Karachi, Pakistan
- 8+ years
- Remote worldwide · freelance · on-site in Pakistan · relocation with visa support
- Full-stack product engineering · React Native architecture · Backend systems & APIs · AI-enabled applications
Products I can still explain.
Selected case studies across mobile, web, backend, and AI — with the architecture behind them.
A career that compounds.
From shipping React Native products to leading systems and AI-enabled platforms.
2026
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Pixel Genesys · Remote / United States · 2023 — Present
Architecting SaaS platforms and production mobile apps across web, React Native, and backend services — including LLM-assisted product workflows.
- Architected and scaled SaaS platforms with Node.js, NestJS, and mixed SQL/NoSQL data stores.
- Designed GraphQL and REST API contracts that reduced frontend over-fetching and latency.
- Shipped SoundSeen full-stack — React Native, React Navigation, RTK Query, Node/Express, and Stripe.
- Built Gurrl Talk end-to-end — React Native, React admin, Express, Socket.io, Redis, Stripe, and E2EE chat.
- Shipped The Landing List full-stack — home services, classifieds, and lost-and-found on mobile plus APIs.
- Built Flagship Towing on MERN and React Native — member app, React admin, and web signup for new customers.
- Shipped Lance Craft full-stack — a two-sided event marketplace for finding work and hiring help.
- Built Zeus Lights fullstack — React Native, Next.js dashboard, NestJS, and MQTT for permanent LED control.
- Shipped DownTime Dating full-stack — schedule-based matching, React Native, admin, chat, and WebRTC calling.
- Shipped Manifest Yr Dreamz full-stack — journal, goals, vision board, subscriptions, and admin.
- Integrated LLM workflows into product surfaces, including Bar Genius.
- Led React Native delivery with Redux Toolkit and RTK Query.
- Shipped payment, analytics, and CI/CD paths (including GCP/AWS-style cloud deploys).
React · React Native · TypeScript · Node.js · NestJS · MongoDB · PostgreSQL · Firebase · GraphQL · Redux Toolkit · Express · Stripe · Socket.io · Redis · MQTT · WebRTC
SoundSeen · Gurrl Talk · Bar Genius · The Landing List · Flagship Towing · Lance Craft · Zeus Lights · DownTime Dating · Manifest Yr Dreamz - Journal
2023
Head of Department / Senior Engineer
Meta Frolic Labs · Karachi, Pakistan · 2023
Led engineering direction across product teams — architecture, TypeScript standards, review culture, and the introduction of AI-assisted product features.
2019
Senior Mobile Developer
Salsoft Technologies · Karachi, Pakistan · 2019 — 2023
Delivered production React Native applications across healthtech, e-commerce, and social products — including native modules and real-time calling.
2018
Software Engineer
Salsoft Technologies · Karachi, Pakistan · 2018 — 2019
Early-career full-stack work across React Native, React, and Node.js — shipping features, APIs, and production maintenance.
The materials I actually ship with.
Frontend
Product-grade interfaces with TypeScript, careful state, and performance that holds up in production.
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Mobile
React Native full-stack apps: native integrations, navigation, and shipping to the App Store and Google Play.
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Backend
APIs and real-time services designed as contracts — not afterthoughts glued to the UI.
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Databases
Data models chosen for the product: transactional, document, or ephemeral cache.
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Cloud / Infra
Deployment, process management, and pipelines that make releases boring — in the best way.
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AI
Applied LLM systems in products — orchestration, tools, and local inference where it actually helps.
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One spine. Four surfaces.
Mobile, web, backend, and AI — held together by architecture.
React, Next.js, TypeScript, Redux Toolkit.
React · Next.js · TypeScript · JavaScript · Redux Toolkit · RTK Query
The whole path — not only the screens.
Clients, API, data, and infrastructure as one map you can inspect.
Domain services, validation, realtime gateways.
Models are components. Products are the system.
A real pipeline — user, product, orchestration, model, tools, result.
Prompting, tools, routing, structured outputs.
Product features that call models with structured outputs — not chatbot chrome bolted on.
Work you can clone.
Public repositories — GitHub first, live demos where they exist.
1,656 contributions in the last year · current 2d · longest 8d
github.com/ammar-tariq1,656 contributions in the last year
JobJitsu
On-device AI career OS — a local Tauri + React desktop agent for résumés, applications, and follow-ups. Privacy is architecture: nothing leaves the machine unless you send it.
Tauri · React · local LLM
Influencer Forge
Local-first desktop studio for AI virtual influencers — Tauri, React, and a FastAPI orchestrator. Generate and manage content on-device.
Tauri · FastAPI · desktop
OpenContext
Figma plugin that exports an AI-ready context package — screens, assets, and navigation — for Cursor, Claude, Copilot, and other coding agents.
Figma · AI · design
8+ years building products that have to last.
I work across React Native, React, and Node.js: TypeScript clients, backend APIs, and AI features when they belong in the product. Based in Karachi, Pakistan. Available for remote work worldwide, freelance projects, on-site work in Pakistan, and international roles where the employer arranges relocation or visa support. The through-line is architecture: clear boundaries, honest performance, and systems a team can actually own.
- Karachi, Pakistan
- Remote worldwide · freelance · on-site in Pakistan · relocation with visa support
- Full-stack product engineering
How I decide what to build — and what to refuse.
Build for users
Technology exists to solve real problems.
Architecture is only as good as the product it serves. I start from the job to be done, then choose the simplest system that can grow without becoming a maze.
Keep systems understandable
Complexity should be intentional.
Every abstraction has a cost. I prefer explicit data flow, typed contracts, and boundaries that a new engineer can learn in a sitting — not a quarter.
Performance matters
Fast software creates better experiences.
Latency, memory, and perceived speed are product features. I treat them as constraints from the first design, not as polish after the screens exist.
Security is part of engineering
Especially for financial and enterprise systems.
Trust is earned in the details: auth, data ownership, least privilege, and honest failure modes. Privacy is architecture — not a settings screen.
Automate repetitive work
Good engineering removes unnecessary manual effort.
CI, code generation, and AI assistance should eliminate grind, not hide judgment. The agent can prepare; the engineer still owns the send button.
Ship, measure, improve
Software gets better through iteration.
I would rather ship a sharp slice with instrumentation than a speculative platform. Feedback, telemetry, and revision beats ceremony.
Have a difficult engineering problem?
Let's build it.
Services covers React Native, React, Node.js, and AI work, with the projects behind each.
Straight answers
- What does Ammar Tariq specialize in?
- Ammar Tariq is a Senior React Native Full-Stack Engineer based in Karachi, Pakistan. The work is React Native, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, and full-stack product engineering: mobile apps, backend APIs, and AI/LLM integrations.
- Does Ammar work remotely?
- Yes. Ammar Tariq is based in Karachi, Pakistan and available for full-time remote work worldwide. Remote availability is not a claim of an office or residence outside Pakistan.
- Is Ammar available for freelance projects?
- Yes. Freelance and project-based work is open worldwide. Current availability: Remote worldwide · freelance · on-site in Pakistan · relocation with visa support.
- What technologies does Ammar use?
- The core stack is React Native, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Node.js, with NestJS and other backend tools when the product needs them. The skills page lists the rest.
- Does Ammar build React Native applications?
- Yes. Production iOS and Android apps are a main part of the work, usually with TypeScript and a Node.js API behind them. Case studies are on the projects page.
- Does Ammar work on backend systems?
- Yes. Backend and API work ships with the same products: Node.js, NestJS or Express, and the data stores those services use.
- Does Ammar work with AI or LLM integrations?
- Yes, when a product needs it: LLM features inside an application, such as the OpenAI-backed recommendations in Bar Genius. The AI systems section describes that work. It is not a research lab.
- Where is Ammar based?
- Karachi, Pakistan. On-site work in Pakistan is possible. International on-site roles only make sense when the employer provides relocation or visa support. This site does not claim work authorization outside Pakistan.