ARIF

Product Engineer for SaaS, AI and data products

4 years as a founding engineer · Helped 2 startups raise funding

Coffee ☕ in hand on the first product call, still there for the last line of code. I've built products from scratch and stayed close enough to users to know their inside jokes. Working across time zones is one of my strengths ⚡. I let AI tools handle the boring, repetitive tasks so I can work on several things at once without losing quality. I love to own the whole journey from idea to launch, ideally with snacks 🍪.

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180+

Projects shipped

AWS and Azure certs

Research citations

100%

Job Success on Upwork

5.0★

83+ orders on Fiverr

Selected Work

All projects

AI Learning App

ThinkForTreats

Built solo as a full stack product, from zero to live, with three Pro plans and payments integrated through Lemon Squeezy. I designed and shipped every layer myself (product, security, AI pipeline and ML) and ran Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity as my engineering team. It's a child facing AI product built on security that treats the child as part of the threat model, safety on every AI generation, and quality and cost measured on every prompt and model.

SaaS Dashboard

Datalogz

As Founding Engineer, I grew into a full-stack, end-to-end owner, building and maintaining the core platform for nearly 4 years. I served major clients including PepsiCo, Regeneron, and Callinova, cleaned up years of technical debt, and delivered major performance improvements across both the UI and backend. The platform we built pioneered the 'BI Ops' category and carried successful Fortune 500 pilots, helping secure a $2.3M seed round and a subsequent $5M in funding.

AI Platform

OmniGPT

Took an AI SaaS platform with ChatGPT capabilities across 10+ AI models from 0 to 1,000+ active users, converting it into a paying product.

Recent Logs

Every Kid Learns Differently, So Why Should Every Quest Feel the Same?

SaaS

A behind the scenes look at how I am teaching ThinkForTreats AI to adjust each quest's difficulty to the kid playing it, instead of locking everyone into one fixed level.

Sep 23, 2026

Google Open-Sources AX a Kubernetes Style Orchestrator for Autonomous AI Agents

DevOps

Open Source

It brings a Kubernetes-style operational model specifically to the deployment, execution, and scaling of autonomous AI agents.

Sep 23, 2026

Docs as Code with Storyblok: Building a Documentation Site on a Type Safe Content Model

Web Development

Project

Storyblok lets you define your content model as TypeScript and push it to your space. I built a documentation site to see how well that holds up, found what it does well, and then had to retract half of my own complaints.

Sep 16, 2026

Why I Built ThinkForTreats

SaaS

React

I wanted my nephew asking for 'one more round' to mean one more round of learning.

Aug 18, 2026

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