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Hi, I'm Ashfaq Nisar
Six years building on the web, from co-founding a startup to healthcare systems.
Nice to meet you
I'm Ashfaq. I've been building for the web for a bit over six years. What I like most is shipping something that holds up in production, especially when it saves someone a few hours of manual work. Most of what I know came from college hackathons: asking dumb questions early and finishing things with a team.
Tools & technologies
Technologies I use daily to build, test, deploy, and maintain production applications.
export const skillCategories = [{ title: "Languages & Frameworks", skills: ["TypeScript", "JavaScript", "Java", "React", "Next.js", "tRPC", "NestJS", "Spring Boot", "Fastify", "GraphQL"] },{ title: "UI & Tooling", skills: ["Redux Toolkit", "RTK Query", "Tailwind CSS", "React Hook Form", "Vite", "SWC", "ESLint", "Prettier", "Turborepo"] },{ title: "Databases & ORMs", skills: ["PostgreSQL", "Firebase", "TypeORM", "Drizzle ORM", "MongoDB"] },{ title: "Cloud & Infrastructure", skills: ["AWS", "Google Cloud", "Docker", "Terraform", "GitHub Actions", "Bitbucket", "Vercel", "Sentry", "New Relic", "Better Auth", "Auth0", "Okta", "Clerk"] },{ title: "Testing", skills: ["Vitest", "Jest", "Cypress", "Playwright"] },];Where I've worked
Four teams over six years.
Jul 2023 – Present
Rhythm Healthcare
Full Stack Engineer
Building HIPAA-compliant full-stack solutions for cardiac care and EHR systems serving 400,000+ patients and practitioners.
Sep 2021 – Jul 2023
Ezerka Technology Solutions
Technical Lead & Co-founder
Co-founded and led a 5–8 engineer team delivering full-stack MERN applications for diverse client projects.
Dec 2020 – Aug 2021
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Programmer Analyst Trainee
Revamped Verizon's enterprise email infrastructure with data-driven HTML templates, Spring Boot microservices, and React dashboards.
Dec 2019 – Apr 2020
Rubicon Red
Software Developer Intern
Modernized a logistics application by migrating React class components to hooks-based functional components.
What I reach for
One pick per job, and when I choose something else.
The jobI reach forAnd
- Runtime and packagesBunBundler and workspaces too.
- Front endReact with ViteNext.js, depending on the project.
- RoutingTanStack RouterOr Next.js, depending on the project.
- APIElysia, tRPC or NestJSDepends on the project and its size.
- DatabasePostgres with Drizzlepgvector when the app needs search.
- CloudAWS or Google CloudWhichever the budget allows.
- StorageCloudflareNo egress fees.
- LearningRustMoving a few projects over, one at a time.
From people I’ve worked with
Managers and teammates at Rhythm and beyond, in their own words on LinkedIn.
“One of his most impactful contributions was building the backend infrastructure for our clinical support AI product. This system leveraged AWS Bedrock and Anthropic’s Claude models to flag critical patient health issues requiring attention… I would welcome the opportunity to work with Ashfaq again and recommend him without reservation.”
“Ashfaq is also proactive in identifying and addressing technical debt, which improves development efficiency and accelerates time-to-value for our users. I would be thrilled to work with Ashfaq again in the future…”
“I have seen firsthand his dedication and passion for full stack engineering. Ashfaq is always proactive, seeking out ways to enhance our applications through automation and non-functional improvements.”
“His expertise spans across a wide array of technologies, and his ability to grasp new programming languages and frameworks is nothing short of remarkable.”
You scrolled this far, so here's a game
Ship Sprint is a little game I built for fun. Dodge meetings, outages and scope creep, fix bugs and ship to prod before time runs out.
L1/5 StagingTime 0:45Score 0Best 0
Press Space or tap to start · 5 levels · fix bugs and deploy
Bugs 0/3 · 3 lives · Prod pending
WASD or arrows to move, click or tap to pathfind, Space to start, next level, or retry. Bugs +10, Prod +50, time bonus +2 per second.
Let's connect
Whether you're hiring, collaborating, or just want to say hello, I'd love to hear from you.
- Location
- Hyderabad, India
Recruiters and hiring managers: my resume is always up to date. Feel free to reach out directly by email.