Talha Saleem, Lead Full-Stack Engineer (React, Next.js, Node.js, NestJS)
Lead Full-Stack Engineer who takes SaaS and AI products from schema to shipped.
6+ years building TypeScript products end to end: multi-tenant platforms, payroll-grade data, AI features with retrieval, and the tests and deploys that keep them honest.
- years in production
- 6+
- products & sites
- 35+
- Employee of the Year
- 2024
Stack I ship with daily
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js
- NestJS
- PostgreSQL
- Prisma
- Supabase
- Claude
- LangChain
- Python
- FastAPI
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Tailwind CSS
- Stripe
- Vercel
6+
Years shipping production software
35+
Products and sites built or co-built
240+
Test files gating one platform's deploys
2
Published books on Amazon Kindle
Teams and clients I've shipped for
- Cloudpacer
- Neblo AI
- Al Ibrahim Travel
- Napollo
- Spadasoft
- Golden Era Insurance
- GEIA
- Butler Engineering
- Fit For A King
- Fimi Pro
- Chez Yiamme Catering
01Selected work
Systems I designed, built and shipped.
My most important recent work, newest first. Numbers come from the code and git history, not a pitch deck.
01Primary engineer · Cloudpacer
NewCloudpacer HRMS
One HR platform in place of spreadsheets: attendance, leave, payroll and reviews, with 240+ test files gating every deploy.
- data models
- 100+
- API routes
- 220+
- test files
- 240+
Cloudpacer ran HR across spreadsheets and separate tools. Attendance was exported from biometric devices, payroll was rebuilt by hand every month, and leave, reviews and helpdesk requests lived somewhere else. None of it was connected or auditable.
- Next.js 16
- TypeScript
- Prisma
- PostgreSQL
- NextAuth
- node-cron
- Vitest
- GitHub Actions
- AWS
- ZKTeco ADMS
Built by Talha Saleem02Architect · Cloudpacer
NewCloudPacer Knowledge Base
An internal knowledge base and lead CRM that finds the agency's most relevant past work for each job post and drafts a grounded proposal with Claude.
- tables
- 24
- RLS policies
- 80+
- engineers unblocked
- 4
Cloudpacer's sales team wrote every proposal from scratch, even when the company had shipped something similar before. Knowledge of past work lived in people's heads and scattered documents.
- Next.js 16
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL RLS
- pgvector
- Anthropic Claude
- OpenAI Embeddings
- Google Calendar API
- Vitest
- Playwright
- Vercel
Architected by Talha Saleem03Developer · Cloudpacer client
NewMulti-tenant AI Assistant for Mortgage Lending Guidelines
Mortgage teams ask lending-guideline questions in plain English and get answers from the right sources, on one platform serving many branded lenders.
- API handlers
- 250+
- app pages
- 96
- test cases
- 480+
Loan officers lose hours searching long, frequently updated agency and investor guideline documents, and every lender layers its own overlays on top. Each new lender used to mean another separate front end.
- Next.js 16
- React 19
- TypeScript
- tRPC
- Prisma
- PostgreSQL
- NextAuth
- Stripe
- OpenAI
- Sanity
- AWS
- Vitest
Developed by Talha Saleem04Developer · client engagement
NewAI-Assisted Integration Factory for Property-Management Systems
Turns a vendor's API docs into a tested, contract-compliant integration service, graded automatically against real recorded event traffic.
- event types
- 25
- validation gates
- 15
- test files
- 330+
Every property-management-system integration was a bespoke service with no shared contract and no automated proof that it spoke the same event format as the integrations already in production.
- TypeScript
- NestJS
- NATS JetStream
- Zod
- PostgreSQL
- Anthropic Claude
- Turborepo
- Jest
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Argo CD
Developed by Talha Saleem05Sole developer · Cloudpacer
NewNeblo AI Marketing Site
Moved an AI freight startup off Framer to a Next.js site its team publishes to without a developer: 13 pages live, new posts live in seconds.
- pages live
- 13
- content schemas
- 7
Neblo AI, an early-stage freight-brokerage automation startup, had outgrown its Framer site and needed a CMS-driven blog and SEO landing pages without losing its design.
- Next.js 16
- React 19
- Tailwind CSS v4
- Sanity
- Framer Motion
- SendGrid
- Vercel
Built by Talha Saleem06Co-builder · Cloudpacer
NewGEIA CSA/DOT Score Improvement Platform
A multi-tenant platform that helps an insurer's trucking clients lower FMCSA CSA/DOT safety scores through evidence, corrective plans, driver training and DataQs challenges.
- endpoints
- ~147
- API modules
- 16
- RBAC roles
- 6
Carriers insured by GEIA need a repeatable, auditable way to lower their CSA BASIC scores: evidence intake, corrective plans, driver training and DataQs challenges, all tracked per carrier. The work ran on spreadsheets and email, with filing deadlines tracked by hand.
- NestJS
- TypeORM
- PostgreSQL
- React 18
- Vite
- Tailwind CSS
- SendGrid
- Twilio
- Playwright
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02More projects
SaaS, AI tools, migrations and client sites.
Newest first. Every card opens a short case study: the problem, what I did, and what came of it.
- finwisepro.onlineProduct preview
FinWise Pro
- 54 calculators
- 4 tools
- Guides
- Tax by country
WebsiteNewFinWise Pro
Owner & sole developer
A free personal-finance site with 54 calculators, interactive tools and guides, tuned for search and live at finwisepro.online.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Vercel
- +1
Built by Talha Saleem - creexio.com
WebsiteNewCreexio
Own studio site
A fast, search-friendly studio site with services, case studies, a markdown blog and a spam-protected contact form.
- Next.js 16
- React 19
- Tailwind CSS v4
- Nodemailer
- +1
Built by Talha Saleem - private build
SaaS & AINewLoan Management System for a 14-Branch Lender
Freelance engagement
One branch-scoped system for a microfinance lender's whole loan lifecycle, with regulator-ready reports on demand instead of a quarterly scramble.
- NestJS
- Next.js 16
- Prisma
- PostgreSQL
- +4
Built by Talha Saleem - private buildConfidential client build
Pharmacist-Led Care Management & Medical Billing Platform
- Patient roster
- Care programs
- CGM sync
- Claims
SaaS & AINewPharmacist-Led Care Management & Medical Billing Platform
Developer · client engagement
Pharmacist teams run patient programs, track clinical data and bill encounters as electronic claims, all on one multi-tenant platform.
- Ruby on Rails
- PostgreSQL
- React
- TypeScript
- +4
Developed by Talha Saleem - private buildConfidential client build
AI Recruitment & Applicant Tracking Platform
- Resume parsing
- AI match score
- Kanban pipeline
- HR chatbot
SaaS & AINewAI Recruitment & Applicant Tracking Platform
Developer · Cloudpacer
Resume intake to onboarding in one platform, with GPT-4o parsing and ranking candidates and an HR assistant that cites its sources.
- Next.js 15
- FastAPI
- SQLAlchemy
- PostgreSQL
- +4
Developed by Talha Saleem - private build
SaaS & AIDatalyze
Solo product build
A self-serve analytics SaaS shipped solo in one week: upload a spreadsheet or document, get charts and AI-written insights, billed through Stripe.
- Next.js 16
- Supabase
- Stripe
- OpenAI
- +3
Built by Talha Saleem
03Experience
6+ years, from client sites to leading platforms.
Aug 2022 — Present
Cloudpacer
Full-time
CurrentLead Full-Stack Engineer
Software services company building SaaS for US and local clients. Promoted from Software Engineer to Lead; I own architecture and delivery on internal platforms and client builds.
- Cloudpacer HRMS: designed and built the company's complete HRMS as primary engineer (430+ of 475 commits). 100+ data models, 220+ API routes, 240+ test files and CI-gated blue-green deploys to AWS.
- GEIA CSA/DOT Score Improvement Platform for an insurer's trucking clients: co-built the multi-tenant NestJS API (16 modules, ~147 endpoints, JWT → tenant → role guards) and wired both React portals (73 of 200 commits).
- CloudPacer Knowledge Base: architected the Next.js + Supabase foundation (RLS-secured schema, can() permission engine, onboarding guide and 50-ticket plan) for a Claude + pgvector proposal CRM that four engineers built on.
- Client platforms under NDA: a multi-tenant AI assistant for mortgage lending guidelines, a charter-coach booking marketplace and a student wellbeing analytics app.
- Neblo AI: sole developer moving the marketing site from Framer to Next.js 16 with embedded Sanity Studio and webhook-driven ISR (live at neblo.ai).
- Earlier: a multi-tenant mortgage AI SaaS, AWS Textract finance-report automation, a Next.js + Firebase travel CMS, a PHP-to-Next.js migration and a Google Chat HR assistant.
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- NestJS
- PostgreSQL
- Prisma
- Supabase
- pgvector
- Claude / OpenAI
- Vitest
- Playwright
- GitHub Actions
- AWS
Jul 2021 — Aug 2022
Napollo Software Design
Full-time
Frontend Developer
Delivered client projects end to end, from requirements through deployment.
- Built React interfaces from Figma designs and contributed shared components reused across client projects.
- Built custom WordPress themes and plugins, WooCommerce and Shopify Liquid storefronts, payment integrations and hosting setups for small-business clients, with a focus on page speed and SEO.
- React
- JavaScript
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- Shopify Liquid
- PHP
- Figma
Feb 2020 — Jun 2021
Spadasoft
Full-time
Web Developer
Built and maintained client-facing web applications.
- Integrated REST APIs, built responsive layouts, and improved load times with code splitting, image optimization and lazy loading.
- JavaScript
- React
- HTML/CSS
- SCSS
- REST APIs
- Git
BS Computer Science
University of Lahore · 2018 — 2022
Employee of the Year 2024
Cloudpacer
04Skills
One engineer, the whole stack.
The tools I reach for, from the database schema to the deploy pipeline.
Frontend
09- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js (App Router, RSC, ISR)
- Vue 3
- Tailwind CSS
- shadcn/ui
- TanStack Query
- Zustand
- Framer Motion
Backend
08- Node.js
- NestJS
- Express
- FastAPI
- Django / DRF
- REST
- WebSockets
- Cron & background jobs
Data
07- PostgreSQL
- Prisma
- TypeORM
- SQLAlchemy
- Supabase (RLS, Edge Functions)
- pgvector
- Redis
AI / LLM
04- Anthropic Claude
- OpenAI (GPT-4o, Whisper, embeddings)
- RAG with pgvector
- LangChain
Testing & DevOps
09- Vitest
- Jest
- Playwright
- pytest
- GitHub Actions
- Docker
- AWS
- nginx + PM2
- Vercel
Integrations
10- Stripe
- SendGrid
- Resend
- Twilio
- Slack
- Google Workspace APIs
- Sanity CMS
- Firebase
- WordPress
- Shopify
Where I add the most value
On complex, multi-team products
- Multi-tenant SaaS and RBAC
- Row-level security and data isolation
- Test suites that gate deploys
- Retrieval-augmented AI features
- Legacy migrations (PHP, Framer, Vue 2 → modern stacks)
05How I work
What it's like to work with me.
Fast, with clear updates
No disappearing acts and no vague status reports. You always know what shipped, what's next and what's blocked.
I care about the product, not just the ticket
I'll flag what doesn't make sense, suggest a better approach and push back constructively when it matters.
I leave systems documented
Onboarding guides, ticket plans and tests that explain intent, so the next engineer can move as fast as I did.
Remote-first, async-friendly
Based in Lahore. Comfortable with PST overlap, Slack-first teams and async code review.
Currently available
Open to
- Remote full-time · Senior / Lead Full-Stack
- Contract builds for startups and product teams
- Screening call, technical interview or paid trial, whatever your process uses
- Timezone
- UTC+5 (Lahore)
- US overlap
- 4–6 hrs daily (PST)
- Response
- < 24 hrs, Mon–Fri
06Writing
I write about what I ship.
Two books on Amazon Kindle, long-form articles here, and shorter notes on LinkedIn.
Latest on LinkedIn
3,400+ followers
Oct 11, 2026
Most teams want to add AI before understanding the problem
A client asked for a support chatbot. The real time sink was onboarding, so we built a knowledge-base chat instead.
Oct 10, 2026
Most SaaS founders discover the multi-tenancy problem too late
How tenant data stays isolated in a production mortgage SaaS: every record carries a group id and every query filters on it.
Jun 22, 2026
My AI stack for shipping fast without losing control of the code
Which AI tool I use for which job: docs, boilerplate, code review and UI, and where I keep the wheel.
Jun 18, 2026
Fleet safety platform for trucking industry compliance
The hard part of an FMCSA compliance SaaS: turning federal trucking regulations into software carriers can actually use.
07Contact
Let's build something that ships.
Hiring a senior engineer, or need a product built end to end? Tell me what you're working on and I'll reply within 24 hours.