Resume · 7+ years
Muhammad Umar Farooq
Senior Full-Stack Product Engineer
Senior full-stack product engineer with 7+ years of experience building and modernizing production web, mobile, backend, and AI-enabled products. Hands-on engineering leader guiding three engineers across architecture, planning, code review, stakeholder communication, QA, and production delivery.
Core skills
Frontend
React · Next.js · TypeScript · JavaScript · Tailwind CSS
Backend
Node.js · Express · PostgreSQL · Supabase · Row Level Security · MongoDB · Prisma · Stripe · Socket.IO
Mobile
React Native · Flutter
AI
OpenAI APIs · RAG · LangChain · LangGraph · Vercel AI SDK
Delivery
Architecture · Technical planning · Code review · Mentoring · Stakeholder communication · Releases · QA · API integrations
Experience
Leads three engineers through functional technical leadership while remaining hands-on.
Director of Engineering
June 2026–Present
Leads three engineers through functional technical leadership while remaining hands-on across architecture, implementation, review, QA, and releases.
- —Lead and mentor three engineers while contributing across web, mobile, backend, and AI-enabled product work.
- —Guide product work from requirements and technical decisions through release, QA, and iteration.
Full-Stack Developer
December 2023–June 2026
Delivered customer ordering, merchant operations, staff tooling, and shared backend workflows across web, mobile, and APIs.
Frontend Developer
May 2020–December 2023
Built customer and operational web interfaces for restaurant ordering and management workflows.
Scope: Architecture and technical direction · Planning · Code review · Mentoring · Stakeholder communication · Releases · QA
Freelance Practice
Independent Full-Stack Engineer
2024–Present
Builds and modernizes selected client and owned products across Next.js, Node.js, React Native, Flutter, payments, and AI-enabled workflows.
Developed responsive frontend web experiences and translated product and design requirements into maintainable interfaces.
Frontend Developer → Full-Stack Developer → Director of Engineering
Named employer platform
May 2020–Present
A multi-surface restaurant commerce platform built at Crave - customer web ordering, a merchant business-manager dashboard, a React Native order-manager app, and shared Node.js services for orders, menus, payments, and live staff updates.
Next.js · React · React Native · TypeScript · Node.js · Express
Live sandbox demo
2025 – Present
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Product preview
2025 – Present
A client and invoice management product for freelancers and small service businesses: set up a branded company, manage clients, build invoices, and share them through clean public links.
Education
Master’s degree, Computer Science
Virtual University of Pakistan
2023
Certification
Certified Mobile and Web App Developer
Saylani Mass I.T. Training Programme / Saylani Welfare International Trust
September 2018