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Shafkathullah Ihsan

Fullstack Engineer | TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js | AI/LLM, RAG, Agentic AI

India

8+ years of work experience

Prepfully
Jun 20215 yrs 2 mosPresent

Remote

• Built an AI-powered resume reviewer using the OpenAI API, delivering structured, actionable feedback at scale and becoming one of the platform's most-used features. • Engineered an AI-driven interview question engine with LLM-generated feedback, expanding content coverage across hundreds of role archetypes while reducing reliance on manual coach input. • Designed and shipped the question bank, peer practice, and coach direct-booking systems, forming the core feature set of the platform's interview preparation product. • Rebuilt the real-time chat UI from scratch, improving communication flow between users and coaches and significantly increasing session engagement. • Developed full-stack features across a React/Next.js frontend, Node.js backend, PostgreSQL database, and Cloudflare Workers edge layer, maintaining a TypeScript-first codebase throughout. • Led code reviews and enforced engineering best practices across the team, contributing to a consistent, maintainable codebase as the product scaled.
Self Employed
Jun 20183 yrs 1 moJun 2021

Remote

• Delivered end-to-end frontend development and UI design for international clients across 4 years of independent practice, managing projects from scoping through launch. • Built and shipped web products using React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, consistently translating design specifications into pixel-accurate, responsive interfaces. • Designed brand identities and UI systems for client projects, handling full design-to-code workflows independently without a design team.

Education

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

Visvesvaraya Technological University

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Headline

Fullstack Engineer | TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js | AI/LLM, RAG, Agentic AI

About

Senior Full Stack Engineer with 9 years of experience building production web applications and AI-powered product features. Deep expertise in TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Node.js, with hands-on experience integrating LLMs, building RAG pipelines, and shipping commercial software. Track record of owning features end to end across the full stack — from architecture through launch — in fast-moving product environments. Currently at Prepfully, where I've shipped AI-driven features used by users at scale: an LLM-powered resume reviewer, an interview question engine with generated feedback, and the core question-bank, peer-practice, and coach-booking systems. Also building independently: Linkshot (uselinkshot.com), a commercial micro-SaaS for Open Graph image generation, and Dua (dua.shafu.xyz), a semantic search engine over the Quran and Kutub al-Sittah hadiths backed by a custom RAG pipeline. Stack I work with day-to-day: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, TanStack Start, Cloudflare Workers, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, pgvector, NeonDB, OpenAI API, Anthropic Claude API. Open to senior full-stack and AI engineering roles. Let's connect.

Location

India

Work experience

Frontend Engineer at Prepfully, Jun 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 2 mos, Remote, • Built an AI-powered resume reviewer using the OpenAI API, delivering structured, actionable feedback at scale and becoming one of the platform's most-used features. • Engineered an AI-driven interview question engine with LLM-generated feedback, expanding content coverage across hundreds of role archetypes while reducing reliance on manual coach input. • Designed and shipped the question bank, peer practice, and coach direct-booking systems, forming the core feature set of the platform's interview preparation product. • Rebuilt the real-time chat UI from scratch, improving communication flow between users and coaches and significantly increasing session engagement. • Developed full-stack features across a React/Next.js frontend, Node.js backend, PostgreSQL database, and Cloudflare Workers edge layer, maintaining a TypeScript-first codebase throughout. • Led code reviews and enforced engineering best practices across the team, contributing to a consistent, maintainable codebase as the product scaled.

Freelance Frontend Engineer at Self Employed, Jun 2018 - Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Remote, • Delivered end-to-end frontend development and UI design for international clients across 4 years of independent practice, managing projects from scoping through launch. • Built and shipped web products using React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, consistently translating design specifications into pixel-accurate, responsive interfaces. • Designed brand identities and UI systems for client projects, handling full design-to-code workflows independently without a design team.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University

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