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MuhammadZia UrRehman

Chief Technology OfficerWeb systems, built to hold.

I architect systems that scale and teams that ship: Laravel and NestJS backends, Vue and React front ends, mobile apps in the same ecosystem.

9+Years building
20+Projects shipped
7Apps on store
10+Countries served
01 · Who you'd be working with

About

I lead the technical side at TechInsects, and still write most of the code myself.

Muhammad Zia Ur Rehman
Islamabad, PKUTC +5

Currently

LeadingPlatform work on Dr Smart: EMR, portal and apps
BuildingFarm Pilot, on my own time
Open toNew client projects

Nine years in, that means Laravel backends, SaaS architecture and code review most weeks. I started full-stack in PHP and Vue, and added React Native and Flutter when the work called for it, not because the stack was interesting, but because those products had to ship on phones.

For five years I also taught software engineering at IST, alongside the client work. That's the part of my background I'd point to first: it's why I write documentation people can follow, and why I can explain an architecture decision to someone who doesn't write code.

Nine years in, the hard part was never the code.

My master's is in Information Security from NUST, so auth, tenancy and data isolation get settled early rather than patched in after somebody else's audit. Most of what I do now is deciding what a system shouldn't do.

LaravelPHPVue.jsReactNext.jsNode.jsNestJSReact NativeExpoFlutterDartFirebaseTypeScriptJavaScript
MySQLPostgreSQLTailwind CSSDockerRedisAWSGraphQLREST APIsGitCI/CDAgileISC² CCGetXLaravelPHPVue.jsReact
02 · 3 featured · 20+ shipped

Selected work

Featured work · 3
Dr Smart Healthcare
OngoingHealthcare
Mar 2025 – Present·Chief Technology Officer·EMR · Web · Mobile

Dr Smart

A preventive healthcare platform live on both app stores, running patient records, doctor sessions and an admin portal as one system.

  • Full patient record: vitals, lab reports, episodes, allergies, medicines
  • Doctor session management with scheduling and PDF export
  • Gamified engagement: goals, points, stories, learning

Scope

API
Web
Mobile
Live
NestJSPostgreSQLReactReact NativeAWSFirebase
Farm Pilot Agriculture
ShippedAgriculture
Apr 2026 – Present·Solo build·Self-initiated

Farm Pilot

Offline-first farm management for livestock, health records and finances, built on my own time. Live on the web while the Android build is in closed testing.

Scope

API
Web
Mobile
Live
React NativeExpoFirebaseTypeScript
Zolmi Salon software
ShippedSalon software
Jul 2026 – Present·Chief Technology Officer·Multi-market

Zolmi

Four country sites consolidated into one Laravel application and a single admin panel, replacing separately maintained static builds.

Scope

API
Web
Mobile
Live
LaravelFilamentMySQLBladeLivewire
Also shipped · 2
FoodClickFood deliveryAug 2025 – Jul 2026Flutter · Laravel · Firebase
EAZ TravelsTravel2026 – PresentLaravel · Filament · LivewireCase study soon

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03 · Three ways in

Work with me

Which one fits depends on what you already have: a team, a spec, or a system that's about to be tested. The scope meter shows how much of a build each one covers.

Embedded

Fractional CTO, on your team

Drop me into a team that has developers but nobody setting the direction.

  • Architecture decisions and code review
  • Unblocking a backend that has stalled
  • Mentoring devs shipping their first SaaS

Scope

Direction
Build
Ship
Handover
Best whenYou have engineers and momentum, but the technical calls keep getting deferred.
Doing this now at TechInsects
End to end

Build the whole product

From an empty repository to live on both app stores: backend, dashboard and mobile app designed as one system.

  • API, admin portal and app planned together, not bolted on
  • Security and tenancy in from the first migration
  • Store submission, review and release management
  • Handover documentation your next developer can read

Scope

Direction
Build
Ship
Handover
Best whenYou have a product to build and no engineering team to build it.
Dr Smart and FoodClick were built this way
Review

Architecture and security audit

A second opinion on what you've built, before the cost of being wrong goes up.

  • Auth, tenancy and data isolation review
  • Database and scaling assessment
  • Written report with fixes in priority order

Scope

Direction
Build
Ship
Handover
Best whenYou're about to scale, raise, or onboard your first enterprise customer.
Backed by MS InfoSec, NUST
04 · Since 2013

Experience

Software industryAcademiaDegrees

Dots mark single teaching semesters · hover any bar for dates

TechInsectsIslamabad · 5+ yrs
Chief Technology OfficerCurrentFeb 2023 – Present
Senior Software DeveloperPart-timeDec 2020 – Jan 2023
IST · Kicsit CampusKahuta, Punjab · since 2019
Visiting Faculty MemberBy semester
Spring 2023Fall 2023Fall 2026
Lab Instructor · Exam CoordinatorFeb 2019 – Jan 2023
Mishkat Welfare TrustIslamabad · 2 yrs
Software DeveloperFeb 2017 – Jan 2019
NUSTIslamabad · 4 yrs
MS Information Security2018 – 2022
UET TaxilaTaxila, Punjab · 4 yrs
BS Information Technology2013 – 2017
ISC²
Certified in Cybersecurity

ISC² CC, the formal side of the security work: access control, network defence and incident response.

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Available for projects

Let's buildsomething solid.

Solid backend. Clean APIs. Technical leadership that actually ships. If that's what your project needs, start here. I reply within a day.

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