Hi, I'mFaizan Ashiq

I turn messy data into systems that just work: fast, reliable, and boring in the best way possible.

Backend engineer at Levitate Data, and the person you call when the app slows down at scale.

How I work

30%

Cheap to run

Tune and clean up before adding servers. An AWS bill down 30% in 22 months.

79%

Fast where people wait

Start at the upload path and the query. Uploads 79% faster.

40%

Safe to release

Tests and deploys that run themselves. 40% less manual release work.

100k+

Built to hold up

APIs serving over 100,000 web and mobile users.

Selected work

Released

MoneyLane

An Android expense tracker that runs entirely offline: no account, no server and no internet permission. Accounts, budgets, tags, lending between people, recurring entries and an encrypted local database.

FlutterDartRiverpodDriftSQLiteAndroidOffline-first

Released

Tinysnap

A screenshot app for Mac, Windows and Linux: capture an area, a window or the screen, then annotate, redact, frame and pin it. A 30 day library keeps every capture editable, and nothing leaves your computer.

SwiftAppKitScreenCaptureKitVisionmacOS

Released

Tinypen

Draw on your screen while you present, on Mac and Windows: a pen, a highlighter, arrows and boxes, a laser, a spotlight, a zoom lens and a board. Esc erases, and nothing leaves your computer.

SwiftAppKitRustWin32Direct2D

Released

Mediamorph

Converts a video on a Mac to MP4, MKV, MOV, WebM, M4A or MP3 without losing quality: it copies every track it can, re-encodes only what it must, and shows the size before you start. ffmpeg comes inside.

TauriRustReactTypeScriptffmpeg

A 6-in-1 VS Code toolkit with dark themes, Markdown preview, Mermaid diagrams, table preview, export workflows, and code snapshots in one extension.

TypeScriptVS Code Extension APIMarkdownMermaidDeveloper Tools

Production

Muuve

South African rental marketplace for tenants, landlords, and agents: discovery, rental workflows, online payments, media handling, and backend infrastructure.

Node.jsNestJSMongoDBAWS EC2AWS S3PaystackGitHub Actions

Tech stack

Backend

  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • REST and OpenAPI

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Schema and query design

Cloud and delivery

  • AWS
  • Docker
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Linux and Nginx

Apps

  • Swift
  • Rust
  • Flutter
  • React

Find me around the web.

My profiles, the Dev Theme Pro extension, and a downloadable CV.