Available for work

Syed Abdullah
Saad

Full-stack & AI engineer  /  MERN  ·  Next.js  ·  React Native  ·  LLM agents  /  Islamabad

I'm a web and AI engineer who ships production apps and builds AI agents that take real actions, not chatbots that just talk. Over the last few years I've shipped automated car-financing platforms, full dealership systems, and real-time 3D configurators.

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About

Who / what

I'm a web and AI engineer based in Islamabad, currently building AI products at DTCForce. For 3+ years I've shipped production web apps across the MERN stack, Next.js, and React Native, from automated car-financing platforms to full dealership systems to real-time 3D configurators. Before that I led a development team for several years.

Lately my focus is where LLMs meet production systems: AI agents that take real actions, action-selection across hundreds of integrations, and keeping a non-deterministic model inside rails that don't move. I write up the hard parts so other people don't have to learn them the painful way.

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Experience

Jan 2026 — now

Web & AI Engineer

Jan 2026 — Present
DTCForce · Remote
  • Build production AI agents that take real actions across hundreds of integrated apps, focused on safe action-selection and session-scoped identity.
  • Design the guardrails that let an agent run against live accounts without a confirmation step.
  • Ship full-stack web features end to end with Next.js, Node, and TypeScript.
2022 — 2025

Team Lead & Full-Stack Engineer

Aug 2022 — Dec 2025
Decimal Solution · Islamabad
  • Led a team of developers with regular SCRUM ceremonies, owning agile delivery end to end.
  • Shipped multiple production products in parallel across different stacks, hitting on-time delivery on 90% of projects.
  • Raised code-quality standards and review practices that cut bug occurrences by 30%.
  • Interviewed 500+ candidates and mentored 50+ interns and junior developers.
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Selected work

2023 — 2024Platform

CLMS — Dealership System

A dealership management system in the vein of DealerCenter, automating 11 actors end to end: vehicle acquisition, inventory, servicing, leads, credit applications, financing, and sales.

Next.jsGraphQLNode.jsMongoDB
Visit
20243D / WebGL

Ferraro 3D Configurator

A real-time 3D configurator for an industrial fabric machine. Customers customize parts live in the browser and order the configured build directly from the app.

Three.jsReact Three FiberNext.js
Visit
2024Mobile + Web

Hide & Seek

A reclaimed-vehicle management system: a lot-agent mobile app plus an admin web panel, using generated QR codes for vehicle check-in, check-out, and full change history.

React NativeNode.jsMongoDB
Play Store
2022 — 2023ML · Final-year project

FloraGenic

An e-commerce platform for plants connecting customers, nurseries, and gardeners, with ML-based plant identification and disease detection from a photo.

Next.jsNode.jsTensorFlowCNN
Visit
2023 — 2024Fintech

Carflys

Automated car purchase and financing platform in the spirit of Carvana: electronic contract generation, direct bank integration, and flexible leasing for US customers.

Next.jsNode.jsStripePlaid
Visit
2023Web

IAMP

Official site for the Institute of Allied Medical Professions: program listings, faculty profiles, transparent fee structure, and online admissions.

Next.jsNode.js
Visit
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Selected writing

Cover for the essay on AI and the joy of programming
AI · Craft · Career  —  2026

I'm shipping the best work of my career. None of it feels like mine.

AI made me faster and the work better, and somewhere in there it stopped feeling like mine. The honest trade: what you gain in speed and scope, and what quietly goes with it.

Read on dev.to
Cover for the article on agent document authoring
AI · Agents · LLM  —  2026

I built an abstraction so my agent could write documents. Then I deleted it.

A wrapper let the agent write a deck in five lines, and made every deck look the same. Why I deleted it and put the agent back on the raw libraries, plus a design brief and a self-review loop. Third in a series on agents that take real actions.

Read on dev.to
Cover for the article on agent plan mode
AI · Agents · Architecture  —  2026

The hard part of my AI agent wasn't doing the work, it was planning it

Splitting the planner from the executor, deciding what counts as a destructive step, and the honest limit of letting a human approve the plan. Second in a series on agents that take real actions.

Read on dev.to
Cover for the article on agent identity
AI · Agents · Security  —  2026

Why my AI agent kept writing to the wrong client's Salesforce

A real cross-session identity bug, and the alias plus OS-boundary fix that made the agent safe to run with no confirmation step at all. First in a series on agents that take real actions.

Read on dev.to
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Stack

Frontend
  • React / Next.js
  • SSR · SSG · ISR
  • React Native
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind · shadcn
  • Three.js / R3F
Backend
  • Node.js / Express
  • Sails.js
  • REST · GraphQL
  • MongoDB · MySQL
  • Firebase
  • Socket.io · JWT
Cloud / DevOps
  • Docker · Linux
  • AWS EC2
  • Vercel
  • DigitalOcean
  • CI / CRON jobs
AI & APIs
  • LLM agents · tool use
  • Local models
  • TensorFlow / Keras
  • Stripe · Plaid · Twilio
  • Puppeteer · Selenium
06Contact

Let's build something
that actually ships.

Open to full-stack and AI/LLM engineering roles, plus freelance agent work.