Polished product front-ends
Interfaces that feel considered. Clean type, real keyboard & focus states, zero layout shift. The kind of quiet quality users notice without knowing why.
Ali Raza
Making complex software feel effortless.
Dashboards, integrations, a data grid that handles a million rows, a tough problem to fix. You name it.
Frontend-heavy full-stack work, powered by a calibrated use of AI.
Vue 3 · TypeScript/shipping since 2019/2,300+ commits on one enterprise platform
What I do
Product engineering, end to end.
A studio of one. You work directly with the person building it, not an account manager in between. Fewer hands, higher standards.
Complex dashboards & data
The stuff that usually makes a front-end fall over: a data-grid with a million rows that doesn't stutter, live state that stays right, permissions that don't leak. Not glamorous, but it's where the hard part lives.
Backend & full-stack
The screens are only half the job. I build the APIs, data models and jobs behind them too, so you get a finished feature and not a front-end sitting around waiting on someone else's backend.
Rescue & improve existing software
Got something slow, buggy, or half-built that nobody fully understands anymore? I dig in, work out what's actually wrong, and get it back to something you can build on. No rewrite unless it really needs one.
Selected work
A few things worth showing.
Flagship · under NDA
The admin behind a European enterprise DMS
For a large European B2B platform in the automotive industry, I own the administrative front-end: the screens where operations get configured, governed and made to behave. Role-based permissions, dashboards, document & PDF generation, internationalisation. The part I'm proudest of is the one users lean on most, a hand-built, heavily customised inventory data-grid that's complex, feature-rich and reliable.
Vue 3TypeScriptViteVuetifyPiniaCASL / RBACPDFi18n
Details are anonymised under an NDA, but I'm happy to walk you through it.
2,300+
commits & counting
2023→
core builder since
30+
feature modules, owned
AA
a11y as standard
Open source
Older archived projects, shipped solo end to end.
Habitly A habit tracker inspired by Atomic Habits, built for the practical day-to-day of actually keeping them.Vue 3 · Django REST · Auth0 · Docker9 forks · 25★0xfolio A clean portfolio template, and my most-starred repo.HTML · SCSS21 forks · 40★codefolio A deployment-ready template to showcase your coding portfolio.Nuxt · Vue · SCSS · JAMstack8 forks · 26★Write It Down A headless blog platform with a proper WYSIWYG editor. Angular on the front, Laravel API behind it.Angular · RxJS · Laravel · JWT6★
How I work
A pragmatic perfectionist.
80/20 by default, while knowing where to sweat the details. I ship on time, without over-engineering, and without burning your budget on the parts that don't matter.
Plan first
Understand the problem and the trade-offs before writing code. Documentation as a deliverable, not an afterthought.
Build the core by hand
The load-bearing pieces are built deliberately, seam by seam, so I understand every part and stand behind it.
Accelerate with AI
Years of experience spotting the patterns, steering the agents toward a quality result, then critically evaluating everything they hand back.
Test, review, ship
Unit and end-to-end tests, clean git discipline, real a11y. Nothing ships until it holds up.
Proof
The polish is the pitch.
“He absorbs new technologies with proficiency across languages & frameworks, and turns them into something that ships.”— Jason F., Principal Software Architect
≈100★
5.0★
across 5 Upwork reviews
Let's build something
Got a hard problem keeping you up at night?
Tell me what needs to be built or fixed and I'll tell you whether I'm the right person for it.
I usually reply within a day, if not hours.