# Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Next.js, Node.js, AWS): Open to Remote Roles
for Australian Startups | AEST-Friendly

I'm Aakib Shah Sayed, a full-stack developer and AWS-certified architect with six years of experience, 20+ shipped projects, and a focus on founders and product teams who need things built properly, not just quickly.

Here's an honest breakdown of what I do.

## SaaS Product Development

Most SaaS products hit the same walls: a data model that can't support multiple tenants, billing bolted on after launch instead of designed in from day one, and infrastructure nobody can operate. I start by designing the architecture before writing a single line of product code.

I work remotely with founders and small product teams, handling architecture, implementation, and deployment as one engineer. One engagement produced a campaign platform that handled **20,000 sign-ups in two weeks**. Another delivered an internal SaaS dashboard that now runs full teams on complete autopilot.

> **Stack:** Next.js · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Stripe · AWS

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## Full-Stack & Next.js Development

A lot of web projects ship fast, then get expensive to maintain. They have no structure, and performance holds up only until real traffic arrives. I build with the second year in mind, not just the launch date.

This covers marketing sites built to load fast and rank, internal tools with real business logic, and existing codebases that need a contractor who can get productive quickly. One rebuild went from thin product pages to a full lead-generation system with **30+ confirmed bookings \[in the first month\]**.

> **Stack:** React · Next.js · Node.js · GraphQL · Tailwind CSS

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## AI & LLM Integration

Most AI work isn't about the model. It's about the plumbing: getting the right context in, validating what comes back, handling failure gracefully, and not blowing the API budget on every page load. I treat an LLM call like any other external dependency, so it gets designed, tested, and monitored, not just wired up.

This is for teams that already have a product and want AI in a well-defined part of it, such as search, summarisation, assistants grounded in your own data, or structured content generation.

> **Stack:** \[OpenAI / Anthropic APIs\] · Node.js · Vector Search · PostgreSQL

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## Cloud Architecture & DevOps

Infrastructure work usually shows up in one of two ways. Either something new needs designing, or something already exists and is too expensive, too fragile, or too undocumented to touch confidently. I've led backend architecture on \[a messaging platform\] serving **millions of messages a day** across emerging markets.

I make decisions for the team you actually have. That means serverless where it removes operational burden, containers or instances where they fit better, and infrastructure as code either way.

> **Stack:** AWS \[(Lambda, ECS, RDS, CloudFront)\] · Terraform / CDK

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## Fractional CTO

Non-technical founders and small teams often reach a point where the biggest risk isn't a missing feature. It's the lack of a second opinion: on architecture, on who to hire, on whether an agency's estimate is reasonable.

A fractional CTO engagement is that second opinion, on retainer, from someone who has shipped products, not just advised on them. I bring six years across backend infrastructure and frontend delivery, plus 20+ freelance engagements, which is the range the role actually requires.

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## Selected Work

*   **\[Telerivet\]**: an automated internal operations platform managing \[task workflows\], notification pipelines, and org-wide visibility, running with zero manual intervention.
    
*   **\[Jawalakhel Group of Industries\]**: a campaign platform that drew 20,000 sign-ups in two weeks, with a call-centre \[integration\].
    
*   **MAW Enterprise**: a vehicle launch site that brought in 30+ test-drive bookings \[in the first month\] and 3–5 qualified inquiries per day.
    
*   **Kajuricoo**: a QR-code opt-in pipeline where one scan subscribes customers to SMS automatically, with zero friction for the customer.
    

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## Let's Talk

If any of this sounds like what you're building, the right starting point is a scoping call. You'll leave with a clear plan whether or not we work together.

👉 [**Book a scoping call**](https://calendly.com/skywalker_03/one-on-one) · [aakibshah.com.np](https://aakibshah.com.np)