Uzair A

Founder & Full-Stack Developer

CodLight • ZZP

Dec 2024 - Present • 1 yr 9 mos

Founded CodLight to deliver full-stack web development, REST APIs, and cloud infrastructure solutions for clients worldwide. Working across Node.js, React, and AWS/Azure/GCP to design and build scalable applications end to end, from architecture through deployment.

Managing Consultant

Systems Limited • Fulltime

Feb 2021 - Apr 2025 • 4 yrs 2 mos

Led an agile team of 5 building Dobbies, a UK B2C platform for gardening products and outdoor furniture with 200k+ monthly users, using TypeScript, Node.js, React, Kubernetes, and AWS. Cut page load time from 15s to 4s and reduced REST API calls by 30% using GraphQL. Also delivered Britax-Romer, a German e-commerce platform for child safety products with 150k+ monthly visitors, including a custom tracking system that saved 200K+ USD per year.

Fullstack JavaScript Engineer

Builder Expert Ltd • Fulltime

Aug 2020 - Feb 2021 • 6 mos

Led an international agile team of 6 building the microservice architecture for Builder Expert, a UK construction cost estimation platform, using Node.js, Kubernetes, and AWS. Built fault tolerant WebSockets for near zero downtime SOS communications. Created a custom client dashboard that reduced support tickets by 50% and built an N-tier architecture for the presentation, business, and data access layers.