Syed Hammad
Ahmed
Full-Stack Engineer & Technical Writer
Experience
Laravel Company
Feb 2026 — Present
Co-founder
- Laravel Mail — Social media automation software built on Laravel.
- LaravelGPT — An in-browser 3D virtual assistant powered by Ollama, running entirely client-side.
Amaxila
Jan 2016 — Present
Founder & Self-employed, Karachi, Pakistan
- LinkPress (2015) — URL shortener PHP script with link management, directory, analytics, and website data scraping. Includes a REST API and installation GUI for non-technical users. Built with Laravel, Bootstrap, and jQuery. Performed customer installations and provided feature support. GitHub
- LinkPress Pro — Extended version with link categories, an advanced admin panel, ad-monetised redirect pages, and additional improvements. Sold on the Envato marketplace. GitHub
- Boxli — Coming-soon HTML template with five pages (Sign up, About, Contact, Team, Roadmap) built with vanilla HTML and CSS. Demo
- Folt — An online directory of free learning curricula for self-study, aggregating free resources into structured tracks. folt.netlify.app
- FluentDoc — A productivity web app for creating and organising semantic elements (countdowns, progress bars, checklists) in a personal task manager. Built with Vanilla JS and Firebase. Demo
- Built and maintained the Amaxila company website and personal portfolio site.
Rashoveshi
April 2016
Contract Developer — United States (Remote)
- Developed and integrated a real-time polling system into a news website using Laravel and D3.js.
- Resolved layout issues across the site using the Blade templating engine.
- Implemented an admin CRUD interface for content management.
Morenews
May 2016
Freelance Designer & Developer — Lahore, Pakistan
- Designed and developed a custom WordPress theme for a news website using PHP, HTML, and CSS.
- Integrated WordPress plugins directly into the theme codebase for tighter performance.
- Created a full design system including logo design and colour scheme.
Publications
Scotch.io
- May 2020Deep Dive into CSS Grid Layout
- Nov 2017Getting Started with CSS Grid Layout
- Aug 2017All About Writing Custom Blade Directives
- Jun 2017What's New in Laravel 5.5
- Apr 2017Building a Tic-Tac-Toe Game with Vue: Part 2 (no archive available)
- Mar 2017Building a Tic-Tac-Toe Game with Vue: Part 1
- Feb 2017Understanding Scope in JavaScript
- Jul 2016Implementing Smart Search with Laravel and Typeahead.js
Strapi
BCMS
Dev.to
- Dec 2025What's New in dbt 1.10
Personal Blog
- Feb 2025Better Text Layout with text-wrap: balance; and text-wrap: pretty;
- Oct 2019Numbers in JavaScript
- Oct 2019Variables in JavaScript
Note: personal blog (interdev.netlify.app) is currently offline.
Education
Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology
2026 — Present
B.S. in Artificial Intelligence
Karachi, Pakistan
The Odin Project
2020 — 2026
Online Bootcamp in Full-stack Development
TOEFL iBT
Nov 2, 2020
Score: 101 / 120
Appointment No. 5728412203103921
Adamjee Govt. Science College
Sep 2017 — May 2019
Higher Secondary — Pre-engineering
Karachi, Pakistan
Karachi Public School
Until Mar 2017
Secondary School Certificate — Computer Science
Karachi, Pakistan
Skills
Backend
Laravel
PHP
Node.js
REST APIs
MySQL
Strapi
Frontend
Vue.js
JavaScript
TypeScript
Inertia.js
Tailwind CSS
Bootstrap
jQuery
D3.js
Tools & Platforms
Git
DigitalOcean
Cloudflare
Firebase
Netlify
WordPress
Figma