Available for Freelance & Remote Work

Sakhawat
Ali Larik

Full Stack Developer Laravel Engineer Web3 Builder MERN Stack Dev Cloud & DevOps

I build production-grade web applications — from scalable Laravel backends and RESTful APIs to React frontends and cloud deployments. Currently at goMDnow, shipping real systems used by real users.

3+ Years Experience
10+ Projects Shipped
3.8 CGPA / 4.0

PHP & MySQL Laravel Web3 MERN AI & DS
Developer.js
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      Python: ['Data Analysis', 'Computer Vision', 'Automation'],
      Data: ['DS', 'ML', 'NLP', 'AI Tools'],
      Clouds: ['AWS', 'GCP', 'Laravel Cloud'],
      APIs: ['RESTful API', 'JSON RPC', 'WebRTC'],
      Tools: ['Git & GitHub', 'Postman', 'Blockchain'],
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The Developer
Behind the Code

I'm a Full Stack Developer from Karachi with a BS in Information Technology (CGPA 3.8/4.0) and a passion for building systems that actually work at scale.

Starting from a DAE in Computer Information Technology, I taught myself web development, landed freelance clients, became a full-time developer, and then a Frontend Instructor — before joining goMDnow as a Full Stack Developer, where I work on real production systems serving U.S. healthcare clients.

At goMDnow I've been shipping features across dev, live, and local environments — writing test suites, handling CI/CD pipelines, upgrading legacy Laravel codebases, integrating Twilio for calling & messaging, and deploying on AWS and Google Cloud. I'm not just a tutorial developer — I've debugged production issues at 2am and survived to tell the tale.

Clean, documented code
Security-first APIs
CI/CD & automation
Team collaboration

Quick Info

Education

BS Information Technology Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University 2022 – 2025  ·  CGPA 3.8
DAE Computer Info Tech IBA Community College, Naushahro Feroze 2018 – 2021  ·  A Grade

Tech Stack &
Capabilities

Backend Development

PHP Laravel Node.js Express.js RESTful API GraphQL SOAP API JSON RPC

Frontend Development

React.js JavaScript HTML5 / CSS3 Tailwind CSS Bootstrap AJAX Blade Templates

Databases

MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB Scalable Schema Design Query Optimization

Cloud & DevOps

AWS Google Cloud GitHub Actions CI/CD Pipelines Hostinger FTP / SSH Linux Servers

Integrations & Tools

Twilio Email (SMTP/Mailables) Queues & Jobs n8n Automation Git & GitHub Postmanx Jira / MS Teams

Web3 & Data Science

Web3.0 Blockchain (Solidity) Python Pandas / NumPy Machine Learning Generative AI

Engineering Practices

Multi-environment Workflow

Dev, staging, and live environments with proper Git branching strategies

Test-Driven Development

Writing unit and feature tests, ensuring passing test suites before deployment

Legacy Code Migration

Manual Laravel 7 → 10 upgrades with zero regression in production

Secure & Scalable APIs

Authentication, rate limiting, versioning, and documentation standards

Where I've
Worked

Full Stack Developer (Full-time)

goMDnow — U.S. Healthcare Drug Testing Platform
Jan 2026 – Present
  • Building and maintaining production features across Laravel-based healthcare platform serving U.S. clients
  • Managing dev, staging, and live environments with proper Git workflows and MS Teams collaboration
  • Integrated Twilio for automated SMS notifications and built a browser-based calling dialer
  • Implemented queues and background jobs for email/notification automation
  • Performed Laravel 7 → 10 migration manually, maintaining production stability
  • Deployed and maintained projects on AWS and Google Cloud Platform
  • Set up GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment
  • Managed server access via SSH/FTP, Hostinger, and cloud platforms
  • Writing test suites and debugging live production issues
LaravelPHPMySQLAWSGCP TwilioGitHub ActionsQueues

Technical Support Engineer (Part-time)

Smart Trainers — Karachi
Jan 2025 – Present
  • Leading a team of internship students as team lead, guiding them to manage and contribute to live production websites
  • Overseeing three production environments: main website, admin panel, and LMS platform
  • Teaching interns to implement new features on already-hosted websites — bridging the gap between learning and real production work
  • Managing GitHub workflows: branching strategies, pull request reviews, code previews, and merge approvals across the team
  • Handling server deployments, CI/CD workflow management, and automated backup strategies
  • Diagnosing and resolving live server issues, ensuring platform uptime and stability
  • Mentoring interns on professional development practices, code quality, and real-world engineering culture
Team LeadGitHubCI/CDServer Management MentoringLaravelLMS

Frontend Development Instructor (Part-time)

Smart Trainers — Karachi
Mar 2025 – Dec 2025
  • Designed and delivered hands-on sessions for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js, and Tailwind CSS
  • Guided students through real-world project builds from concept to deployment
  • Mentored learners transitioning into the industry as professional developers
React.jsTailwind CSSBootstrapHTML & CSSJavaScriptTeaching

Full Stack Developer (Full-time)

IT Box Ultimate Solutions
May 2024 – Nov 2025
  • Contributed to client-facing SaaS products from design to delivery
  • Delivered a complete school management system with production ready features
  • End-to-end web application development: backend logic, database design, frontend UI, and API integrations
  • Worked with AJAX, REST APIs, and multi-role authentication systems
  • Integrated secure and role-based authentication system with PHP & MySQL
PHPMySQLJavaScriptAJAXBootstrapAPIs

Freelance Web Developer

Independent — Various Clients
2021 – 2024
  • Delivered custom web applications and APIs for clients across multiple domains
  • Built attendance portals, LMS platforms, and utility tools from scratch
  • Managed client communication, requirements gathering, and project delivery
ProgrammingData AnalyticsWeb DesignWeb DevAPI Development & Testing

Things I've
Built

Web3 · Blockchain

Blockchain eVoting System

Decentralized e-voting platform using Ethereum smart contracts. Transparent, tamper-proof election system with wallet-based voter authentication.

React.jsWeb3.0Solidity
Web3 · MERN

Distributed Identity Management System

Decentralized identity system on the blockchain. Users control their own identity data with no central authority, built on MERN stack and Web3.

MERN StackWeb3.0MongoDB
API · Node.js

Student CRUD RESTful API

Production-ready RESTful API built with Node.js and Express. Full CRUD operations with authentication, validation, and proper HTTP status codes.

Node.jsExpressMySQLJWT
Express.js · MongoDB

Momenta - EMS

Momenta is a web application built using Express.js and MongoDB. It allows users to create memories and upload/download images, with privacy settings, authentication, and authorization features.

Express JSMongoDBBootstrap
LMS · Laravel

Learning Management System

Full-featured LMS with course creation, student enrollment, video lectures, quizzes, and progress tracking. Instructor and student dashboards.

LaravelMySQLBootstrap

More on GitHub

Explore more of my open source work, experiments, and contributions.

Visit GitHub

Python, ML &
Data Science

Beyond web development, I have hands-on experience in data science, machine learning, and AI — trained through IBM, Google, and University of Michigan programs, and practiced extensively on Kaggle with real datasets.

GitHub Projects

ML · Scikit-learn

Machine Learning Practice & Projects

Hands-on ML projects covering supervised and unsupervised learning — regression, classification, clustering, and model evaluation with real-world datasets.

PythonScikit-learnPandasMatplotlib
NLP · Transformers

NLP Projects

Applied Natural Language Processing projects — text classification, sentiment analysis, tokenisation, and transformer-based models on real text datasets.

PythonNLTKspaCyTransformers
NLP · Practice

NLP Practice

Exploratory NLP exercises covering text preprocessing, bag-of-words, TF-IDF, named entity recognition, and language model experiments.

PythonNLTKRegexTF-IDF
Data Analysis · Python

Python Data Analysis Practice

Data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, and visualisation using Pandas, NumPy, and Seaborn on diverse datasets including finance, health, and retail.

PandasNumPySeabornMatplotlib
Python · Practice

Python Practice for Data Science

Core Python exercises focused on data science workflows — list comprehensions, file I/O, OOP, error handling, and working with APIs and JSON data.

PythonJSONOOPAPIs
Scraping · BeautifulSoup

Web Scraping

Automated data collection scripts using BeautifulSoup and Requests — scraping e-commerce, news, and public data sites with data cleaning pipelines.

PythonBeautifulSoupRequestsPandas
BI · Power BI

Power BI Work

Business intelligence dashboards and reports built in Power BI — sales analysis, KPI tracking, and interactive visualisations from structured datasets.

Power BIDAXExcelData Modelling

View on Kaggle

5 notebooks · 12 upvotes · 62 forks. Including Digit Recognition with KNN (score 0.97).

Visit Kaggle
Kaggle Profile: sakhawatalilarik Digit Recognition with KNN · Polynomial Regression · Multivariate Regression · Salary Prediction · Grouping · Sorting
5Notebooks
12Upvotes
62Forks
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Certifications & Badges

IBM

Python for Data Science, AI & Development

Jun 2023  ·  IBM / Coursera
IBM Digital Credential Coursera
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IBM

Python Project for Data Science

Jul 2023  ·  IBM / Coursera
IBM Digital Credential Coursera
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IBM

Data Science Methodology

May 2023  ·  IBM / Coursera
IBM Cognitive Class Coursera
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IBM

What is Data Science?

Mar 2023  ·  IBM / Coursera
IBM Skills Network Coursera
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IBM

Tools for Data Science

May 2023  ·  IBM / Coursera
IBM Coursera
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IBM

Exploratory Data Analysis for ML

Mar 2023  ·  IBM / Coursera
IBM Skills Network Coursera
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G

Foundations: Data, Data, Everywhere

Mar 2023  ·  Google / Coursera
Google Coursera
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M

Python Basics (Python 3)

Nov 2020  ·  University of Michigan / Coursera
U of Michigan Coursera
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K

Pandas

Mar 2023  ·  Kaggle
Kaggle Learn
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What I Can
Do for You

Full Stack Web Apps

End-to-end web applications — from database design and Laravel backend to React frontend and production deployment on cloud platforms.

  • Laravel + React / Livewire
  • MERN / PERN stack apps
  • Multi-role auth systems
  • SaaS product development

Web3 & Blockchain Apps

Decentralized applications built on Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains — from smart contract development to Web3 frontend integration with wallet authentication.

  • Smart contract development (Solidity)
  • Decentralized voting & identity systems
  • Web3.js / Ethers.js frontend integration
  • MetaMask & wallet-based auth

AI / ML Projects

End-to-end machine learning pipelines — from data collection and EDA to model training, evaluation, and deployment as a usable Python or web-based tool.

  • Data analysis & EDA (Pandas, NumPy)
  • ML models (classification, regression, NLP)
  • Web scraping & dataset building
  • Power BI dashboards & reporting

API Development

Secure, scalable, and well-documented RESTful APIs. Integration with third-party services including Twilio, Stripe, and cloud providers.

  • RESTful API design & build
  • Third-party integrations
  • Authentication & security
  • API testing & documentation

Cloud & DevOps

Deploy and maintain your projects on Hostinger or Google Cloud with CI/CD pipelines, server management, and zero-downtime deployments.

  • AWS / GCP deployment
  • GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows
  • SSH & server management
  • Hostinger & shared hosting

Laravel Upgrades

Stuck on an old Laravel version? I handle manual migrations from Laravel 5/6/7 to the latest version without breaking production.

  • Laravel 5/6/7 → 10/11
  • Dependency updates
  • Code refactoring
  • Performance optimization

Let's Build
Something

Have a project in mind, need a developer for your team, or just want to say hi? I'm open to freelance projects, remote opportunities, and collaborations.

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