Qasim Anwar

Qasim Anwar

Founding Design Engineer | UI/UX + Frontend

Based in: Lahore, PKCurrently: Associate Software Engineer, GoSaaSExperience: 2 years

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Design Engineer with a background in Computer Science, specializing in the intersection of high-fidelity design and production-ready React engineering. Experienced in building design systems, motion layers with GSAP/Framer Motion, and full-stack applications. Focused on creating seamless, brand-driven user interfaces.

Experience

Associate Software Engineer

GoSaaSLahore, PKworkJun 2025 – Present

Summary

Developed APIs and frontend components for Archiver, directly supporting enterprise client deployments for Roche, Tektronix, and Renesas. Enhanced backend security and stability by fixing critical issues (including a redirect URL injection vulnerability) and delivering UI and client-specific improvements. Built a Node.js backend application that validated image assets using MongoDB and generated client-ready CSV reports, helping customers quickly identify and resolve data gaps. Implemented search and storage integrations using OpenSearch and cloud object storage, supporting large-scale client deployments such as Tektronix.

Results

  • Fixed critical security issues, including a redirect URL injection vulnerability.
  • Built search and storage integrations with OpenSearch and cloud object storage.
  • Developed a Node.js tool for image asset validation and CSV reporting.
  • Validated and resolved hundreds of image asset data gaps for enterprise clients like Roche and Tektronix through a custom Node.js backend.
Node.jsMongoDBOpenSearchCloud Object StorageCSV

Web Designer and Frontend Engineer

Design Dairawork

Summary

Web Designer and Frontend Engineer for a Pakistani design community.

What I did

  • Refined motion, interactions, and loading animations in code using GSAP and Framer Motion to judge feel after settling layouts in Figma.

Results

  • Designed the full website in Figma and built it using Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.
  • Built a personality quiz with a custom solitaire-style loading animation.
  • Implemented a motion layer with GSAP and Framer Motion, including a scroll-driven hero and orbiting artwork.
  • Set up brand color and font tokens in Tailwind v4.
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSSanity CMSGSAPFramer MotionFigmaPrototyping

Solo Design and Build

Veidifreelance

Summary

Solo Design and Build project for personalized greetings.

Results

  • Designed and built a personalized Eid greeting site with unique links and interactive elements.
  • Illustrated all assets in Photoshop.
ReactTypeScriptFramer MotionPhotoshop

Skills

Technical

JavaScriptJavaScript
PythonPython
MongoDBMongoDB
Langchain
SQLSQL
DockerDocker
ReactReact
Tailwind CSSTailwind CSS
AWS Cloud
TypeScriptTypeScript
MySQLMySQL
RedisRedis
C++C++
CloudflareCloudflare
Heroku
Elasticsearch
FigmaFigma
Next.jsNext.js
GSAP
Framer Motion
Photoshop
Affinity Designer
Framer
Prototyping

Areas of expertise

Brand Identity
Typography
Illustration

Projects

SingedIn

Lead Developerpersonal
Semantic lyric retrieval + text rewriting. Built a lyrics-aware content generation system that transforms user-written text by semantically matching and injecting relevant song lyrics from a user's Spotify liked songs. Designed an end-to-end RAG pipeline using Spotify and Genius APIs to fetch, clean, chunk, embed, and retrieve lyric lines for context-aware rewriting. Integrated GPT-4o-mini as an editor to intelligently select, rewrite, and blend lyric references into LinkedIn-style posts, ensuring natural tone and semantic alignment.
PythonLangChainGPT-4o-miniChromaDbSpotify APIGenius APIReact
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GoLogs

Full-Stack Developerpersonal
High-throughput log ingestion and visualization. Built a distributed logging pipeline capable of ingesting and processing thousands of log events per second from multiple sources (files, terminal streams, and services). Designed a reliable producer-consumer architecture using Fluent Bit, Redis, and BullMQ to buffer, queue, and persist structured logs into MongoDB for frontend consumption. Developed a full-stack log viewer using RedwoodJS and Preact, and containerized all services with Docker Compose to enable reproducible development in a 5-member team.
Node.jsRedisFluent BitBullMQMongoDBRedwoodJSPreactDocker
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Khana Decider

personal
Food-decision app prototyped in Framer with custom code overrides.
Framer

Visual Design & Poster Series

personal
Urdu typographic posters and a FIFA World Cup 2026 poster series printed for a screening event.

Education

Bachelor's of Computer Science

Lahore University of Management SciencesCSGPA 3.61 / 4Aug 2021 – May 2025

What drives the work

Motivations

  • Building products from 0 to 1
  • Bridging the gap between design and engineering
  • Creating immersive, motion-rich user experiences

Objectives

  • Secure a Founding Design Engineer role at a high-growth AI startup
  • Lead the design-to-code pipeline for early-stage products
  • Build and scale robust component libraries and brand systems

Principles

  • Design excellence
  • Technical rigor
  • User-centricity
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