Open to freelance & full-time opportunities

Senior Full Stack Developer

Laravel · Node.js · React/Next.js · Vue/Nuxt · AWS

LaravelPHPNode.jsNext.jsVue.jsNuxt.jsAWS

I design and deliver scalable SaaS and enterprise web applications with strong focus on Laravel backends, real-time Node.js services, and modern frontend frameworks. Currently building a gym and fitness management platform covering memberships, attendance, billing, and integrations.

About

The developer behind the work

I'm a Senior Full Stack Developer with 8+ years of experience building scalable SaaS and enterprise web applications.

I specialize in Laravel-based systems, real-time Node.js services, and modern frontend stacks including React/Next.js and Vue/Nuxt. I currently lead development of a gym and fitness management platform handling memberships, attendance, billing, and ERP integrations. Across multiple roles in Saudi Arabia, I have delivered secure RESTful APIs, cloud deployments on AWS, payment gateway integrations, and biometric attendance workflows aligned with real business operations.

Industries Served

Fitness & WellnessSaaSEnterprise SoftwarePOS & RetailPayments

Key Highlights

  • 8+ years of professional software development experience
  • Strong hands-on expertise in Laravel, PHP, Node.js, Next.js, Vue.js, and Nuxt.js
  • Built real-time attendance flows with WebSocket and biometric device integrations
  • Integrated business systems with Odoo ERP and payment gateways
  • Delivered and maintained cloud workloads on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda)
  • Strong API-first architecture with scalable RESTful services

Proof Points

  • Led full-stack delivery for multi-branch gym management operations
  • Built secure payment and reconciliation flows with third-party systems
  • Improved application performance through query and architecture optimization
  • Open to full-time and freelance opportunities in Riyadh or remote
8+
Years Experience
5+
Projects Shipped
Tech Stack

Technologies I work with

Organized by capability, with emphasis on the tools I rely on most in production.

Application layer

Backend

7 tools
LA

Laravel

Expert
PH

PHP

Expert
CO

CodeIgniter

Proficient
SL

Slim

Proficient
EX

Express

Proficient
NJ

Node.js

Proficient
GR

GraphQL

Familiar

Client experience

Frontend

7 tools
RJ

React.js

Proficient
NJ

Next.js

Proficient
VJ

Vue.js

Expert
NJ

Nuxt.js

Proficient
JA

JavaScript

Expert
JQ

jQuery

Proficient
AJ

Ajax

Proficient

Interface systems

UI / Styling

5 tools
TC

Tailwind CSS

Expert
DA

DaisyUI

Expert
BO

Bootstrap

Proficient
CS

CSS

Expert
HT

HTML

Expert

Data layer

Databases

3 tools
MY

MySQL

Expert
PO

PostgreSQL

Proficient
MO

MongoDB

Proficient

Delivery & infrastructure

Cloud / DevOps

8 tools
AE

AWS EC2

Expert
AS

AWS S3

Expert
AR

AWS RDS

Proficient
AL

AWS Lambda

Proficient
DO

Docker

Proficient
JE

Jenkins

Proficient
AN

Ansible

Familiar
SE

Serverless

Proficient

Workflow & collaboration

Tools

7 tools
GI

Git

Expert
GI

GitHub

Expert
GC

GitHub Copilot

Proficient
GE

Gemini

Proficient
CO

Claude Opus

Proficient
WO

WordPress

Proficient
WE

WebRTC

Familiar
Featured Work

Selected Projects

A focused selection of production systems built for scale, operations, and measurable business outcomes.

Gym Management SaaS
SaaS Platform
Fitness SaaS
Fitness SaaSFull Stack Developer

Gym Management SaaS

A scalable multi-tenant SaaS platform for gym memberships, scheduling, payments, and analytics.

Outcome snapshot

Reduced admin workload by 60%

10k+
Users
50k+
Bookings
5
Locations
LaravelVue.jsMySQLAWS EC2AWS S3Redis+1 more
E-Commerce API Gateway
API / Backend
E-Commerce
E-CommerceBackend Lead

E-Commerce API Gateway

A high-performance REST API gateway powering a multi-vendor marketplace with 50k+ daily active users.

120ms
Response time
50k+
Daily active users
LaravelMySQLRedisAWS Lambda+2 more
Healthcare Appointment Platform
Web Application
Healthcare
HealthcareFull Stack Developer

Healthcare Appointment Platform

A HIPAA-aware appointment and telemedicine platform for a private clinic network.

500+/mo
Appointments
40%
No-show reduction
LaravelNext.jsMySQLAWS RDS+3 more
SaaS Products

Products I've Built

Productized SaaS platforms designed around recurring workflows, operator efficiency, and business growth.

Productized SaaSBusiness-facing
FlexGym Pro
FlexGym Pro
6 ModulesLive Product

FlexGym Pro

Complete gym management, membership, and analytics in one platform.

FlexGym Pro is a white-label SaaS platform for gym owners and fitness studio operators. It handles everything from member onboarding and class scheduling to recurring billing and performance analytics.

Gym owners, fitness studio operators, personal training businesses

Core modules

MembersClassesBillingStaffAnalytics+1 more

Business value

  • Reduce admin time by 60%
  • Improve member retention
LaravelVue.jsMySQLAWSStripe+1 more
Productized SaaSBusiness-facing
InvoiceFlow
InvoiceFlow
5 ModulesLive Product

InvoiceFlow

Professional invoicing and payment tracking for freelancers and agencies.

InvoiceFlow streamlines the billing workflow for freelancers and small agencies. Generate professional invoices, track payments, send automated reminders, and gain financial clarity.

Freelancers, agencies, consultants, service businesses

Core modules

InvoicesClientsPaymentsReportsAutomations

Business value

  • Get paid 3x faster
  • Reduce invoice follow-up by 80%
LaravelReactMySQLStripePayPal API
Case Studies

Business Impact

Concise breakdowns of the business problem, the technical response, and the measurable outcome.

01

Scaling a Gym SaaS from MVP to 10,000 Users

How I rebuilt a fragile gym MVP into a production-ready multi-tenant SaaS platform handling 10,000 members and $200k/month in recurring revenue.

Challenge

The client had a working MVP with serious performance issues, no multi-tenancy, and billing that broke under load. They needed a complete rebuild — fast.

Solution

Redesigned the data architecture for multi-tenancy, rebuilt the billing layer on Stripe Subscriptions, implemented Redis caching, and introduced a queue-based async job system.

Delivery stack

LaravelVue.jsMySQLRedisAWS EC2+2 more
Business Outcomes

Lead result

10,000+ members migrated with zero data loss

  • $200,000+ monthly recurring revenue processed
  • API response times reduced from 800ms to under 180ms
02

E-Commerce Performance: 800ms to 120ms API

Reduced API response times by 85% and enabled a marketplace to scale to 50,000 daily active users without infrastructure cost increases.

Challenge

A growing e-commerce marketplace was suffering under its own success — slow APIs, frequent timeouts, and an architecture that couldn't support new vendor onboarding.

Solution

Introduced a service-layer architecture, aggressive Redis caching, database query optimization, and AWS Lambda for async processing.

Delivery stack

LaravelMySQLRedisAWS LambdaAWS CloudFront+1 more
Business Outcomes

Lead result

API response time: 800ms → 120ms (85% reduction)

  • Scaled from 10k to 50k daily active users
  • Infrastructure cost held flat despite 5x traffic growth
Services

How I Can Help

Strategic development services for founders, agencies, and product teams that need reliable technical execution.

Experience

Career Timeline

Roles, environments, and outcomes that shaped how I build and ship software today.

Oct 2024 — Present

1 yr 6 mos

Full Stack Web Developer

Fursan Najd Sports Co, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaCurrent role

Owning and enhancing a Laravel-based gym and fitness management system for memberships, scheduling, attendance, billing, and reporting.

Key achievements

  • Designed and maintained scalable RESTful APIs for mobile apps and Vue.js/Nuxt.js web frontends
  • Developed a real-time attendance system using Node.js WebSocket services and Bio Star biometric integration
  • Integrated Odoo ERP for automated invoicing, subscriptions, and financial reconciliation
LaravelPHPNode.jsVue.jsNuxt.jsMySQLOdoo ERP

Mar 2022 — Sep 2024

2 yrs 6 mos

Full Stack Developer

Excellent Solutions Co, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Developed and maintained high-traffic applications and APIs using Laravel ecosystem tools with modern frontend integrations.

Key achievements

  • Built responsive UIs using Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, Vue.js, jQuery, and AJAX
  • Implemented RESTful APIs for frontend and third-party system integrations
  • Worked across MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB with optimized queries and integrity controls
LaravelCodeIgniterSlimVue.jsNode.jsAWSPostgreSQLMongoDB

Aug 2020 — Mar 2022

1 yr 7 mos

Web Developer

Excellent Solutions Co, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Developed frontend and backend modules for SaaS platforms using PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL.

Key achievements

  • Created responsive cross-browser interfaces with HTML5 and CSS3
  • Integrated AWS Lambda for asynchronous background processing
  • Implemented payment gateways including PayPal and Stripe
PHPJavaScriptMySQLAWS LambdaDockerJenkinsCloudFormation

May 2017 — Aug 2020

3 yrs 3 mos

PHP Developer

Excellent Solutions Co, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Assisted in development and maintenance of PHP-based web applications and user-facing features.

Key achievements

  • Collaborated with senior developers to debug and improve existing systems
  • Developed features with PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Used Git and GitHub workflows in team projects
PHPLaravelJavaScriptHTMLCSSGitGitHub

Dec 2016 — Apr 2017

4 mos

Technology Manager

Loggey, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Led product enablement and implementation support for POS systems and related operations.

Key achievements

  • Conducted product training and demos for POS solutions
  • Managed operating system and application setup for POS deployments
  • Integrated hardware and software components for reliable field operations
POS SystemsSystem InstallationClient SupportDocumentation
Testimonials

Selected Client Notes

A few concise reflections from founders, operators, and product leaders after shipping real work together.

Nouman delivered a production-ready SaaS platform in 12 weeks that I thought would take 6 months. The architecture is clean, the code is documented, and it has run flawlessly since launch. He doesn't just execute — he thinks about the product.
JT
James Thornton
Founder & CEO
FlexGym Pro
We were drowning in spreadsheets. Nouman built us a real-time tracking dashboard that transformed how our operations team works. On time, on budget, and he actually communicates clearly throughout the project.
SA
Sarah Al-Rashidi
CTO
Naqla Logistics
The API performance improvements were remarkable. 800ms down to 120ms in under 4 weeks. Our mobile team could finally build features without the backend being the bottleneck.
MA
Mohammed Al-Faris
Product Manager
ShopEasy MENA
Nouman built our appointment platform with the same care and precision that medicine requires. He understood the sensitivity of healthcare data and delivered a system our patients trust.
DA
Dr. Aisha Malik
Director
MedConnect Clinics
Available for select projects and roles

Available for the right work.

If you're building something that matters and need an engineer who takes it from idea to production — reach out directly.

Projects & Freelance

Startups, agencies, and product teams—short or long engagements, fixed-scope or ongoing delivery.

Full-Time & Contract

Engineering teams and hiring managers—looking for someone who ships end-to-end and thinks about the product.