Musadiq Mehmood
Engage

CAREER EVOLUTION

From web technologies to credit infrastructure.

Eight-plus years, one continuous practice: it started with WordPress builds in 2017 and now covers a ten-developer team lead role and the architecture of live financial, clinical, and manufacturing systems. WordPress was never dropped — it is still shipped.

Since
2017
Roles
5
Team led
10
Live systems
4

CHRONOLOGY

Roles, in order.

Titles and employers as held. Systems from the current period link to their case studies.

  1. 2024 – presentIndependent · remote

    Software Architect & Full-Stack Engineer

    LFE · HolisticHub · Sublivio

    Designing and shipping the systems documented on this site: a bank-grade credit orchestration platform, two Laravel + Vue operational platforms, and a Next.js + Express manufacturing CMS.

    • Loan Facilitation Engine — Flask API, Next.js bank portal, PostgreSQL/Redis, SHAP advisory, RCI policy plane, Ollama/Qwen memo sidecar with a hard process boundary.
    • Boutique HolisticHub ERP and Clinic HolisticHubPro — Laravel 13 APIs, Vue 3 SPAs, Sanctum, Spatie RBAC; a Laravel 5.6 Blade CRM rebuilt without changing its clinical and billing rules.
    • Sublivio — quote-only manufacturing storefront, Express + Prisma API, RBAC CMS, frosted route transitions. This site reuses the same architecture.
    PythonFlaskNext.jsLaravel 13Vue 3PostgreSQLRedisDockerNginxPM2Ollama
  2. 2024 – presentTeam of ten

    Senior WordPress Developer · Team Lead

    KnowaTech

    Leading a ten-developer WordPress delivery team: code review, structured workflows, and client delivery across agency projects.

    • Owned review and release standards for plugin/theme work, WooCommerce builds, and Elementor-based delivery where the brief required it.
    • Git-based workflows and staging on cPanel-hosted client estates.
    • Twenty-three live client sites from this period and earlier are indexed on the WordPress page with public URLs.
    WordPressPHPMySQLRESTWooCommerceElementorGitcPanelFigma
  3. 2022 – 2024Full-time

    PHP & Laravel Developer

    Expert System Solution

    WordPress plus Laravel: the point where plugin work turned into API work.

    • Resolved plugin/theme conflicts and ran migrations on production WordPress estates.
    • Built reusable Laravel components and REST APIs consumed by front-ends and third parties.
    • Worked across both codebases at once — WordPress delivery and Laravel APIs — instead of leaving one for the other.
    LaravelPHP 8MySQLRESTWordPressVue
  4. 2019 – 2021Full-time

    WordPress Developer

    Soft Circles

    High-availability WordPress, PHP, and custom CMS work alongside business analysts and infrastructure.

    • Custom themes, plugins, hooks, and custom post types for institutional and e-commerce clients.
    • Introduced structured QA and Agile delivery inside the division.
    • Multisite and WooCommerce systems for clients who needed more than a brochure.
    WordPressPHPMySQLJavaScriptWooCommerceMultisite
  5. 2017 – 2019Full-time

    Associate Web Developer

    RED SIGNAL

    Where the practice started: converting design mockups into WordPress and HTML/CSS/JS sites on real client work.

    • Front-end builds from design mockups to responsive HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
    • Hosting, performance, and reliability on shared and VPS environments.
    • First production WordPress deployments — the beginning of the WordPress practice that still runs.
    HTMLCSSJavaScriptWordPressPHP

WHAT CHANGED

Same engineer, larger surface.

Mockups → pages

Systems → operations

Early work delivered pages. Current work delivers desks people run a business from: bank portals, clinics, workshops.

One stack

Stack per system

WordPress where content teams own the site; Laravel + Vue for operational admin; Flask + Next.js where ML and policy planes are involved.

Solo delivery

Leading ten

Code review, release discipline, and staging workflows for a team — while still shipping architecture personally.

Features

Boundaries

Explicit process boundaries for AI sidecars, RBAC catalogs, and audit logs. Systems that can be handed over.

EDUCATION

  • MS Computer Science

    NFC Institute of Engineering & Technology, Multan

  • BS Computer Science

    NFC Institute of Engineering & Technology, Multan

WORKING MODEL

  • Remote from Multan, Pakistan (UTC+5)

    Overlaps US mornings and EU afternoons. Async-first, calls when scoping.

  • Contract, retainer, or Upwork

    Fixed WordPress packages ship as listed; systems are scoped and quoted.

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