Burhanuddin HalaiFull-stack engineer
Software engineering,measured inbusiness outcomes.
Production SaaS and AI systems
for founders shipping products
and teams scaling them.
BurhanuddinHalaiFull-stack engineer · Karachi, UTC+5
A software engineer who builds production systems, then puts numbers on what they changed
From AI infrastructure to real-time platforms - every system measured by what changed after it shipped.
See the workThe record
Production work since the year I graduated
I’m a software engineer based in Karachi. Founders bring me products to ship; engineering teams bring me systems to own. In both cases the job is the same - production software that keeps working long after I’ve handed it over.
Plainly: a BSCS from SZABIST, class of 2023, and production work from the same year. An internal SaaS owned solo at Q-Solutions, React platforms at Innovative Network, and utility-scale SaaS and AI infrastructure at Cygnis Media, where I build today. I write things down - plans, decisions, trade-offs. It’s the cheapest reliability tool there is.
- Full Stack Engineer
- Cygnis MediaFeb 2025 - Present
- React / Next.js Engineer
- Innovative NetworkMar 2024 - Jan 2025
- Full Stack Engineer
- Q-SolutionsJul 2023 - Feb 2024
- BSCS
- SZABIST2019 - 2023
Selected work
Results first. Engineering right behind
EnergyIntelligence
Meter data from thousands of sites, turned into answers analysts can ask for in plain English.
Analysts stopped queueing behind a data team; they ask the grid directly.
View case study- Scale
- 10,000+ meters
- Readings
- Every minute to hourly
- Stack
- AI · Postgres · BullMQ
CommunityPlatform
A private community platform for a network of US Navy SEALs - feeds, groups, and real-time messaging behind one API.
Scoped at eight months. The community was live in five.
View case study- Scope
- 8 months
- Delivery
- 5 months
- Data models
- 34+
AI CodeReview
An AI teammate that reviews every pull request against the whole codebase before a human does.
Reviewers now start where the mechanical findings end.
View case study- Before
- 15-20 min
- After
- ~5 min
- Coverage
- Every repository
OwnedRetrieval
A rented AI search vendor, replaced by infrastructure the product owns outright.
A $5k monthly dependency became owned code and an in-house roadmap.
View case study- Removed
- $5k / month
- Saved
- $60k+ / year
- Ownership
- End to end
Also built
Systems that shipped without a case study
- 01
Ecommerce platform
An online storefront that carries real traffic end to end - browsing, cart, and checkout.
- 02
Digital business-card SaaS
Digital business cards teams can brand, share, and sync straight into their CRM.
- 03
AI voice-agent platform
Phone agents that answer, route, and handle live calls on their own.
- 04
No-code website builder
A drag-and-drop builder that ships production-grade sites without writing code.
- 05
AI content pipeline
Product copy written and published across an entire catalog, automatically.
- 06
Autonomous ecommerce operations
Agents that find products, write the listings, and take orders over WhatsApp.
Across the stack
From product interface to production infrastructure
Frontend, backend, data, AI, real-time systems, and launch - one engineer accountable across the seams.
How I work
Legible from the first commit to the handover
- 01
Scope in writing.
Every engagement opens with a written plan: milestones, risks, and what 'done' means. You know the shape of the work before the first commit.
- 02
Working software every week.
Weekly demos of running software, not status decks. If a week won't produce something you can click, I flag it in advance.
- 03
Decisions with reasons.
Every significant technical choice comes with a written why - the trade-offs, the alternatives, and what it costs to change later.
- 04
Clean handover, always.
Documentation, tests, and runbooks are part of the deliverable, not a favour. The goal: the next engineer needs me for nothing.
Built alongside people across six countries
Contact
Let’s put a number
on what you build next
Tell me what you’re building and where it’s stuck, and you’ll get an honest read: scope, risks, and whether I’m the right person to build it. Hiring for a team? The resume, code, and references are one email away - no chasing required.
- burhan-halai
- GitHub
- BurhanH12
Fair questions
- Who owns the code?
- You do. Work ships to your repositories from day one - code, tests, documentation, runbooks. The handover standard: the next engineer needs me for nothing.
- What does an engagement look like?
- A written scope first - milestones, risks, and what "done" means. Then weekly demos of running software. Shape and budget are agreed before the first commit.
- What happens after launch?
- The deliverable already includes what maintenance needs: tests, documentation, runbooks. For hands-on support past that, we agree a window up front.
- How do we work across time zones?
- Based in Karachi (UTC+5), with a protected daily window that overlaps North American mornings, plus written updates every week.