If you are hiring for a Next.js frontend and a NestJS backend, you have probably already felt the failure mode: two hires, two vocabularies, and an API contract that nobody owns. I work the other way. I am a full-stack engineer based in Pakistan, I ship both sides of that stack, and this page states plainly what I have shipped, how the overlap works, what the process looks like, and what I will not pretend to know. Rates are on request, and I explain why below instead of printing a number that would be wrong for half the projects that read it.
The short answer
Hire me when you need one senior engineer to own a production Next.js plus NestJS system end to end, from the database schema to the deployed frontend, with real-time or queue-backed work inside it. I am based in Pakistan in UTC+5, I work remote-first, and I am open to senior roles and select contract projects. Start with a free 30-minute conversation, then a one-week scope step, and only then a quote tied to that scope.
That is the whole offer. The rest of this page is the evidence behind it, plus a vetting checklist you can use on any candidate, including me.
What I have actually shipped
You should not hire on a stack list. Hire on systems that survived production, because production is where the easy answers break. My resume page states the headline honestly: 15-plus production projects across five client domains, shipping since January 2024, and I am a full-time software engineer at OBSCODE in Pakistan. The four flagship platforms on my work page are the proof I point hiring managers to first, because each one forced a different hard problem.
Healthcare Ireland is the real-time and multi-tenant case. It is an enterprise platform for a major Irish healthcare group covering patient management, scheduling, clinical notes, billing, and analytics across branches and departments. I architected the frontend and contributed to the NestJS backend, on a stack that includes Socket.io for real-time work, BullMQ for background jobs, PostgreSQL, and Prisma. If your product has rooms, live updates, or jobs that must not silently fail, this is the closest proof I have.
First Choice Recruitment is the four-app integration case. It is an end-to-end recruitment system spanning four interconnected applications and one NestJS backend, from a public application form through applicant processing, staff onboarding, and timesheet management. I led end-to-end development. The lesson that project taught me, and the one I now design for first, is that a shared backend only helps if the data model is designed for all four apps on day one. Bolt it on later and every new app pays the tax.
ComplianceBot AI is the type-safe AI case. It is a multi-tenant SaaS product that runs an adaptive AI interview and generates type-safe construction-compliance documents, built with Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, Google Gemini, the Vercel AI SDK, and Zod. I architected the full-stack application. The part that matters for hiring is not the AI demo. It is the boundary discipline: every AI output is validated against a Zod schema before it touches a document a client relies on.
Otrip.io is the ecosystem case. It is a four-module travel platform with a consumer app, a marketing site, an admin panel, and a blog CMS, held together by one shared frontend architecture. I was frontend lead. The hiring signal here is restraint: one architecture, four surfaces, no drift into four separate codebases that happen to share a logo.
You can read all four in full on my work page and my resume. I would rather you read those and judge the work than take this page at face value.
The stack I ship in, and what each piece is for
A stack list without a reason is marketing. Here is mine, with the job each piece does and the project that proved it.
| Piece | What it does in my systems | Where it proved itself |
|---|---|---|
| Next.js + React | The product surface: marketing pages, dashboards, and app screens in one TypeScript codebase | ComplianceBot AI, Otrip.io, First Choice Recruitment |
| NestJS + TypeScript | The backend: typed modules, guards, queues, and scheduled work behind one API | Healthcare Ireland, First Choice Recruitment |
| PostgreSQL + Prisma | The source of truth: relational data with typed access and migrations I can review | Healthcare Ireland, First Choice Recruitment |
| Socket.io | Real-time rooms and live updates when polling would lag or hammer the server | Healthcare Ireland |
| BullMQ + Redis | Background jobs with retries, backoff, and dead-letter handling for work that must not vanish | Healthcare Ireland |
| Vercel AI SDK + Zod | AI features where the model output is validated before it becomes a record | ComplianceBot AI |
| Supabase | Auth, storage, and Postgres hosting where it removes undifferentiated backend work | ComplianceBot AI |
If your project needs a piece outside this list, I will tell you in the first conversation whether I can learn it honestly on your timeline or whether you need someone who already ships in it. I do not pad a stack list to win a call.
Time zone overlap, stated without spin
I am based in Pakistan in UTC+5 and I work remote-first. The overlap I state on my own site, and the only overlap claim I will make here, is this: a full working day of overlap with Europe, and a morning overlap with the US East Coast.
That shapes how I run a project. Overlap hours are for decisions, demos, and unblocking. Async hours are for deep build work, with written updates so nobody wakes up to a mystery. Weekly demos are the forcing function: you see the same code I see, every week, instead of discovering drift at the end of a milestone.
If your team needs someone online through a full US West Coast afternoon, I am not that hire, and I would rather lose the project in this paragraph than in week three. If your team runs on European hours, or on US East Coast mornings plus async afternoons, the overlap fits cleanly.
Hiring me versus the other two options
Most hiring managers I talk to are choosing between three shapes, not thirty candidates. Here is the honest tradeoff for each, including the cases where I lose.
| Option | When it wins | Where it hurts |
|---|---|---|
| One senior full-stack engineer (me) | One owner for the frontend, backend, and the contract between them; faster decisions; one throat to choke, in the good sense | One person cannot parallelize like a team; a very large scope needs more hands no matter how senior the hire |
| An agency | You need a whole team at once and you want the agency to absorb hiring risk | You pay for account management and handoffs; the engineer who sold the project is rarely the engineer who builds it |
| A junior in-house hire | You want someone full-time inside your culture and you have senior engineers free to mentor | Mentoring is real work, and a junior hire plus no senior reviewer is how a NestJS backend accumulates silent data bugs |
My verdict on this table is simple. If the system is one product with one backend and one frontend, and the risk is in the architecture rather than in headcount, the single senior owner wins. If the risk is sheer volume, hire the team and do not pretend one person is a team.
How to vet any senior NestJS developer, including me
Use this checklist on me, and on every other candidate you screen. It is built from the failure modes I have actually seen, not from interview trivia.
- Ask for a shipped system that matches your constraint, not your stack. A candidate who built a todo app in NestJS and a candidate who shipped multi-tenant billing in NestJS both list the same framework. Only one has felt the constraint you are hiring for. Ask what broke in production and what changed after it.
- Ask how tenant data stays isolated. In a multi-tenant system, the dangerous bug is not a crash. It is one tenant seeing another tenant's data, quietly. A senior answer talks about row-level rules, query scoping, and tests that prove isolation, not just about middleware existing.
- Ask what happens when a queue job fails twice. Retries without backoff hammer a failing dependency. Retries without a dead-letter queue lose the job silently. A senior answer names the retry policy, the backoff, the dead-letter destination, and the alert that fires when jobs land there.
- Ask how real-time state survives a second server. Socket.io on one instance is easy. Rooms across instances need an adapter, usually Redis, and a plan for what happens when a client reconnects to a different instance. If the candidate has never scaled past one server, that is fine, as long as they say so and can describe the step they would take first.
- Ask how AI output is validated before it becomes a record. If the product touches AI at all, an unvalidated model response is a data-integrity bug with good marketing. Zod validation at the boundary, with a retry or repair path, is the minimum honest answer.
- Ask what they would refuse to build. A candidate who agrees to everything has not thought about your project yet. A senior engineer has a list of things they will push back on, and reasons tied to your users, not to their preferences.
If a candidate answers all six with specifics, you have a senior hire. If the answers stay at framework-feature level, you have a developer who knows NestJS syntax and has not yet owned a system.
How working with me runs
My homepage already states this process, and I run it the same way for contract work so there are no surprises. Four steps, one outcome: your team owns the system before I step away.
Step 1: Conversation, 30 minutes, free. You tell me about the problem, the team, and the constraint. I ask the questions an engineer would ask, including the uncomfortable ones about scope and timeline. If the fit is wrong, this is where we find out, at zero cost to you.
Step 2: Scope, one week. You get an architecture sketch, a risk list, deliverables, and milestones. The scope is honest: no padding, no scope-creep clauses buried in the fine print. This is also where a real quote becomes possible, because a quote needs a scope to attach to.
Step 3: Build, project-dependent. Type-safe stack, accessibility from inception, weekly demos. You see the same code I see. If a demo surfaces a wrong turn, we correct it in that week, not at the end of the engagement.
Step 4: Ship and handoff, final week. Production hardening, observability, and a runbook. The handoff is not a document dump. It is the point where your team can run, extend, and debug the system without me, and that is the test I hold myself to.
If you are hiring for a full-time senior role rather than a contract, the same instinct applies in a different shape: the first conversation is still about the problem and the constraint, and the first week is still about learning the system before proposing rewrites. I do not join a team and redesign its backend in week one.
Rates, stated plainly
Rates are on request. I know that frustrates a reader who wants a number, so here is the reasoning instead of a dodge.
A flat rate on this page would be wrong for most projects that read it. A two-week integration and a multi-tenant platform with real-time rooms and queue-backed billing are not the same job, and pricing them identically would either overcharge the small project or under-resource the large one. Both outcomes hurt you.
What sets the number, once we talk, is scope, duration, and ownership: how much of the system I own, how long the engagement runs, and what handoff looks like. The free conversation and the one-week scope step exist precisely so the quote attaches to something real. If you need a budget range to take to a decision-maker before that conversation, say so in the first message and I will tell you honestly whether your range and the scope can meet, rather than quoting a number I cannot stand behind.
I will also be direct about what I do not do here. I do not publish a rate I have not quoted for a scoped project, I do not compete on being the cheapest option in a race to the bottom, and I do not discount by quietly cutting the handoff week. The handoff is the part that makes the system yours, and cutting it is not a saving.
What I will not take on
A hiring page that accepts everything is not credible, so here are my boundaries.
I do not take on projects where the backend is an afterthought and the real ask is a landing page with a login form. That work deserves a frontend specialist, not a NestJS hire. I do not take on a rewrite where nobody can state what is wrong with the current system in one paragraph, because a rewrite without a diagnosis is a new system wearing an old system's name. And I do not take on engagements where the team cannot give one person ownership of the API contract, because a contract owned by committee is owned by no one, and the frontend and backend will drift apart in the first sprint.
If your project falls outside those lines, the free conversation is still useful: I will say which shape fits better, even if that shape is not me.
My verdict: who should hire me, and who should not
Hire me if you are building or fixing a production TypeScript system where the backend matters as much as the frontend, where multi-tenant data, real-time updates, or queue-backed work is part of the product rather than a feature request, and where you want one senior owner who will argue about architecture in week one and hand you a system your team can run in the final week. That is the work my four flagship platforms prove, and it is the work I do best.
Do not hire me if you need a large team tomorrow, if you need full US West Coast afternoon coverage, or if you want the cheapest bid and are willing to trade the handoff week for it. Those are legitimate needs, and they point to a different hire. I would rather you read that here than discover it after a contract starts.
If the first paragraph describes your project, the next step is simple and free. Start a conversation through the contact section on my homepage, tell me the problem and the constraint, and we will find out in 30 minutes whether this is a fit.
Frequently asked questions
Are you available for full-time roles, contracts, or both?
Both, within limits. I am open to senior roles and select contract projects, and I work remote-first from Pakistan in UTC+5. The first step is a free 30-minute conversation about the problem, the team, and the constraint. That call is where we find out if the fit is real, before either side commits to a scope or a rate.
Why hire a developer from Pakistan for a Next.js and NestJS project?
The practical reasons are overlap and a full-stack pairing that is hard to split. I work in UTC+5, which gives a full working day of overlap with Europe and a morning overlap with the US East Coast. On the technical side, one engineer who owns both the Next.js frontend and the NestJS backend removes the handoff where most full-stack projects lose time: the API contract between two teams.
What stack do you actually ship in?
Next.js and React on the frontend, NestJS with TypeScript on the backend, PostgreSQL as the database, and Prisma where it fits. For real-time work I use Socket.io, and for background work I use BullMQ on Redis. For type-safe AI features I use the Vercel AI SDK with Zod validation at every boundary. That is the stack behind the production platforms on my work page, not a list of tools I have only read about.
How do your rates work?
Rates are on request, and I will not put a number on this page that I have not earned the right to quote. A fixed rate without scope is a guess, and a guess helps no one. After the free conversation and a one-week scope step with an architecture sketch, a risk list, deliverables, and milestones, you get a real quote tied to that scope. If the scope does not fit, I say so in that first call.
What does the first week of working with you look like?
It looks like scope, not code. Week one produces an architecture sketch, a risk list, deliverables, and milestones, with honest scope and no padding. Then the build runs on weekly demos, so you see the same code I see, and the final week covers production hardening, observability, and a runbook so your team owns the system before I step away.
What should I check before hiring any senior NestJS developer?
Ask for a system they shipped that matches your constraint, not just your stack. Ask how they handle multi-tenant data isolation, how they test a queue that must not lose a job, and what they do when a real-time feature has to scale past one server. A senior answer names a tradeoff and a failure mode. A vague answer names a framework feature and stops there.
Start the conversation at /#contact. Tell me the problem, the team, and the constraint, and I will reply with honest questions before I reply with a quote.
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