Backend & cloud engineer with 18+ years experience. Creator of Clever Certificates, building scalable apps, automation.

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Ayaz Ashraf • Peerlist

The Story Behind the Product I recently documented the 6-year journey of how I transitioned from the lead developer to the owner of this platform. Read the full technical case study and acquisition story here: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="break-all link-break text-gray-500 hover:underline" href="https://peerlist.io/ayaz_ashraf/articles/from-freelancer-to-product-owner-saas-acquisition">https://peerlist.io/ayaz_ashraf/articles/from-freelancer-to-product-owner-saas-acquisition</a>Technical Highlights<ul><li>Dual-Engine Design: Developed a full-featured desktop editor alongside a mobile-first "Lite Editor" for seamless customization on any device.</li><li>Custom E-commerce Architecture: Engineered a bespoke cart system from the ground up to support complex product logic and dynamic offers.</li><li>Payment Orchestration: Integrated a multi-region payment stack (Paddle, Verifone, PayPal) for global tax compliance.</li><li>Automated Logic: Leverages Python-based background automation for high-speed certificate generation.</li></ul>Key Features<ul><li>Vast Template Library: Over 1,000+ custom designs across categories like Business, Sports, and Education.</li><li>No-Friction Experience: Users can edit and preview designs instantly with no sign-ups or credit cards required.</li></ul>

Clever Certificates

Laundry On Demand is an Uber-like laundry mobile application connecting customers, riders, and vendors through real-time booking and tracking.When I joined, the platform generated around $1,200/month. Through performance optimization, feature development, and system stability improvements, I helped scale the product to $18,000/month, and it has since grown beyond $2M+ in total revenue.I worked across the full stack, building and maintaining mobile apps, REST APIs, and third-party integrations. The system supports payments, notifications, real-time updates, and scalable order management.Tech Stack: Angular, Laravel, iOS (Swift), Android (Java), Stripe, Twilio, Firebase, MySQL Role: Full-stack &amp; Mobile Developer Client Rating: ⭐ 5.0 / 5.0 Total Earned via Upwork: $20,000

Laundry On Demand

Description: A Web Portal For Integrating all the World School into one Place.  It is also maintaining Parents activity, children activities, and Teacher activities and provides online activities communication occurred through mobile messaging to communicate. Technologies: PHP, AJAX, CAKEPHP(FRAMEWORK), MY SQL

WSN (World School Network):

===================== INTRODUCTION ===================== Citruss TV is based in Dubai and was founded in 2005 by Nicolas Bruylants and Michael Trüschler. Their aim was to offer a new kind of retail service to the people in the region, built on technology, but guided by two customer focused principles: Quality and Convenience. Citruss offers quality products from around the world and delivers them to the doorstep of their viewer's homes. Today, Citruss is the leading company in electronic retailing in the Middle East and North Africa, broadcasting 24 hours in Arabic language. ===================== TECHNOLOGY USED ===================== SQL Server 2008 Cold Fusion 9 IIS 7.5 Dedicated Windows Server 2008 server hosting for database and web server seperately. JIRA for project management SVN for versioning