IBuildDigitalSolutionsThatMake an Impact.
Practicing software architect with 10+ years shipping commercial software — multi-tenant platforms, payment and billing systems, cloud infrastructure, network and security software, and AI-powered applications. 9× Alibaba Cloud MVP, Honorary Technical Author, and founder of software companies in the UK, USA, and Pakistan.
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Software Architect
Engineering meets vision
A founder-engineer who takes products from architecture to production single-handedly — across web, mobile, desktop, and systems-level code.
Arslan ud Din Shafiq
Founder & Director, Stacklab X Ltd
Arslan ud Din Shafiq is a practicing software architect and engineer with more than ten years of experience designing, building, and operating commercial software — multi-tenant platforms, payment and billing systems, cloud infrastructure, network and security software, and AI-powered applications. He is a 9× Alibaba Cloud MVP (2018–2026) and Honorary Technical Author for the official Alibaba Cloud Blog, with more than fifty published technical guides.
He is Founder & Director of Stacklab X Ltd in Cardiff, Wales; Founder & CEO of WebSoft IT Development Solutions (Pvt) Ltd in Pakistan; and CEO of Websoft America Inc. in Wyoming, USA. He holds an MSc in Computer Science with Cyber Security from the University of York and a dual BSc in Software Engineering from Lancaster University and COMSATS University Islamabad. He is a published author on Amazon, writing on automating small-business operations with AI.
Technology has never been just a profession for me — it has always been my passion. Over the years I have dedicated myself to software engineering, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, artificial intelligence, networking, filesystem internals, and enterprise architecture.
I am a founder-engineer: I take products from architecture to production single-handedly, across web, mobile, desktop, and systems-level code. That means writing the Rust protocol and the Flutter client and the NestJS API and the deployment runbook — and owning what happens when it is live.
My focus is on the unglamorous part that decides whether software survives contact with the real world: supervised restarts, atomic writes, dead-letter queues, provenance-tracked rule data, staleness gates, and operations that refuse to do the unsafe thing and explain why.
Build technology that people genuinely love using.
Professional Summary
Mission
To build innovative, secure, and intelligent digital products that empower businesses worldwide.
Languages
Services I Provide
End-to-end digital solutions to help businesses grow and scale — from a single API to a full enterprise platform, secured for global reach.
Web & Platform Engineering
Multi-tenant platforms, SaaS products, and commerce systems built on Next.js, NestJS, and PostgreSQL — architected for scale from day one.
Cloud & DevOps
Cloud infrastructure, containerization, CI/CD, and Linux server hardening across Alibaba Cloud, AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Production AI Engineering
Taking AI prototypes to reliable, secure, measurable production systems — OpenAI and Gemini integration, retrieval, agent tooling, and self-hosted inference.
Mobile & Desktop Apps
Flutter across five targets, SwiftUI with StoreKit 2, and native Android — one codebase, genuinely native behaviour.
Cybersecurity & Networking
Application security, server hardening, custom network protocol design, and VPN infrastructure — Xray/VLESS Reality, WireGuard, SoftEther.
Payments & Billing
Stripe, PayPal, and crypto gateways; multi-currency billing, VAT automation, WHMCS modules, and strict decimal money handling.
And more
Technologies & Tools
Deep skill across the full stack
From low-level infrastructure and security to intelligent AI systems and polished interfaces — end-to-end mastery of the modern technology landscape.
Languages
Backend & Architecture
Cloud & DevOps
Cybersecurity & Networking
Artificial Intelligence
Mobile & Desktop
Data & Systems
Payments & Commerce
One engineer.
Every layer.
A rare combination of architecture, security, cloud, AI, and product sensibility — delivered with executive-level accountability.
Projects & Case Studies
Platforms, systems, and products designed, built, and operated end to end — from a Rust anti-censorship protocol and a multi-tenant POS to a supervised trading engine and a macOS storage analyzer that refuses unsafe deletions.
Networking · Rust · Flutter
JaguarVPN
A consumer VPN business in a single monorepo: backend API, Flutter clients for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and Linux, marketing site, customer dashboard, admin panel, support-agent app, and a Chrome extension in nine locales — plus a custom anti-censorship network protocol in Rust with matching node agents, four payment rails, and live support. Sole developer and architect: ~1,266 commits in fourteen weeks.
Multi-Tenant SaaS · Offline-First
Universal Commerce & POS Platform
Multi-tenant commerce platform across seventeen domain packages — accounting, auth, inventory, orders, payments, pricing, promotions, purchasing, taxation and synchronization. NestJS API with CQRS and Redis, a Next.js POS client with offline-first sync (Zustand + Dexie/IndexedDB), admin back office, mobile app, and background worker. Localization packs for Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the UK; industry packs for restaurant, fashion retail, grocery and electronics.
Production Python · Reliability
APEX Trading Engine
A production trading system built for the failure cases: supervised restart across eight concurrent loops, atomic writes for persistent state, graceful shutdown with panic flush, WAL-mode SQLite with a dead-letter queue, clock-skew detection, and exposure-aware position sizing. Shipped with a monitoring, deployment and incident-response tier and a phased production-readiness checklist. ~248 commits.
Systems · Rust · Filesystems
Data Recovery Suite
A cross-platform recovery engine in Rust with a shared core for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS: storage abstraction over block devices and images including damaged-media salvage and MBR/GPT handling; detection for NTFS, exFAT, FAT12/16/32, ext2/3/4, HFS+/HFSX and APFS; MFT-level NTFS metadata recovery with path rebuilding; and raw carving of twenty-four formats with structural validation and confidence scoring.
eSIM · B2B Platform · Payments
StackSIM
An eSIM provisioning and B2B reseller platform acting as the orchestration layer between users, resellers, a telecom provider and three payment gateways — with high-concurrency wallet operations and strict decimal money handling. NestJS, PostgreSQL with TypeORM, Redis and BullMQ, and a separate Next.js frontend.
Hosting · Billing · VAT Automation
LeopardVPS
A hosting and VPS platform (Stacklab X Ltd) reselling vendor infrastructure with configurable markup: multi-currency billing in GBP, EUR and USD across Stripe, PayPal and a cryptocurrency gateway, automated UK accounting with a dormant-VAT engine, admin CMS, customer control panel and status page. Monorepo with Next.js web, NestJS API and BullMQ worker, Prisma and PostgreSQL, and pluggable vendor, gateway and notification adapters.
Regulated Computation · Provenance
CalcPerks
A platform of 110 calculators in which every regulation-dependent computation runs on versioned rule data with recorded provenance: engines take rules as an argument, test suites are cross-checked against the issuing authority's published figures, and a publication gate blocks any page whose rule data has gone stale.
AI-Assisted · Next.js · Payments
Tourist Visa Services
A visa application platform with customer portal, payments, document upload backed by presigned S3 storage, application tracking, admin back office, and AI-assisted content and guidance built on OpenAI and Google Gemini. Next.js and TypeScript with Prisma and PostgreSQL; ~314 commits.
E-Commerce · Marketplace
Storefront X
A database-driven e-commerce and marketplace platform where products, categories, payment gateways, shipping rules, taxes and themes are all admin-configurable: materialized-path category tree, cartesian variant generation, smart collections, bundles, digital and subscription product types, PostgreSQL full-text search, and multi-vendor support. NestJS, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Redis, BullMQ, REST and GraphQL, with a Next.js admin and storefront.
macOS · SwiftUI · Safety-First
Storage Doctor
A SwiftUI storage analyzer that profiles roughly 1.1 million files in under thirty seconds and attributes space to named artifacts instead of an opaque “Other” bucket. It explains the consequence and risk of every proposed deletion, and refuses unsafe operations outright — container images, virtual-machine disks, Time Machine snapshots, the Mail database.
SaaS · Integrations
Vehicle History Reports & WHMCS Modules
Earlier product lines and client work: a vehicle-history report SaaS (Vinquestion and sister brands), WHMCS payment-gateway and server-provisioning modules, hosting brands and control panels, Expocommerce — featured on the Alibaba Cloud Project Hub — and the COMSATS Queue Management System that took 3rd place at DICE-IET 2017.
Some Numbers I'm Proud Of
Production Systems That Hold Up Under Load
A consumer VPN business in one monorepo, a multi-tenant commerce and POS platform, a supervised trading engine, a cross-platform data-recovery core in Rust, and an eSIM orchestration layer — all designed, built, and operated end to end.
Clients across 25 countries
From startups to enterprises and governments — delivering secure, scalable software for clients spanning five continents.
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Technology is most powerful when innovation, security, and simplicity work together.
Leading teams & building companies
Founding and leading software companies in the UK, USA, and Pakistan — from technology strategy and architecture through engineering management and delivery.
Founder & Director
Stacklab X Ltd — Cardiff, Wales, UK
Founded and directs a UK software development and IT services company (Companies House no. 16537732, incorporated 24 June 2025), building modern software products, cloud-native platforms, and AI-driven digital solutions for a global market.
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
WebSoft IT Development Solutions (Pvt) Ltd — Gujranwala, Pakistan
Leads the SECP-registered team delivering IT-enabled services: web and mobile application development, shared hosting, VPS, remote desktop and dedicated servers, and virtual private networks. More than 500 projects delivered for clients across multiple countries since June 2019.
Chief Executive Officer & Full Stack Developer
Websoft America Inc. — Wyoming, USA
Founded and leads a US software company (Wyoming filing 2021-000976443). Owns technology strategy across enterprise software, cloud computing, DevOps, cybersecurity, automation, APIs, and AI-powered applications, and runs the virtual, cloud, and dedicated Linux infrastructure behind it.
Professional Experience
- 01Founder & Director — Stacklab X Ltd, Cardiff, UK (2025 – present)
- 02Founder & CEO — WebSoft IT Development Solutions (Pvt) Ltd, Pakistan (2019 – present)
- 03CEO & Full Stack Developer — Websoft America Inc., Wyoming, USA (2021 – present)
- 04Freelance DevOps Engineer — Solutions Creator Technology Ltd, UK (2023 – present)
- 05Full Stack Developer — LEOPARDVPS, USA (2024 – present)
- 06Full Stack Developer — Shenzhen Shad Traders & Co. Ltd., China (2019 – present)
- 07Chief Technology Officer — USA Solution Creators Technology LLC, Wyoming (2022 – 2023)
- 08Director — SNS Venture Limited, Cardiff, UK (2021)
- 09Technical Writer — Alibaba Cloud (2018 – 2019, contract; contributor since)
- 10Chief Executive Officer — GeterHost, Pakistan (2016 – 2018)
- 11Independent Full-Stack Developer — Fiverr, Upwork, Freelancer.com (2015 – present)
Recognition
- 9× Alibaba Cloud MVP & Ambassador (2018 – 2026) — first awarded June 2018 and renewed every program year since
- Honorary Technical Author — official Alibaba Cloud Blog, with articles featured in Alibaba Cloud's #FridayFive selections
- Published author on Amazon — a practitioner guide to automating small-business operations with AI
- Author — the “Exploring Computing” technical book series
- Expocommerce featured on the Alibaba Cloud Project Hub (2020)
- 3rd position with distinction, DICE-IET national innovation competition (2017) — COMSATS Queue Management System, among IT projects from universities across Pakistan
- Led a 15-person technology team as CTO across the USA and Pakistan
Academic foundation
Formal training in software engineering and cyber security from leading institutions across the UK and Pakistan.
Master of Science
2019 – 2021Computer Science with Cyber Security
University of York
United Kingdom
Bachelor of Science
2014 – 2018Software Engineering (4-year, dual-degree program)
Lancaster University
United Kingdom
Bachelor of Science
2014 – 2018Software Engineering (4-year, dual-degree program)
COMSATS University Islamabad — Lahore Campus
Pakistan
Intermediate
Pre-Engineering
Quaid-e-Azam Divisional Public College
Pakistan
Distinction · Grade A+Matriculation
Science Group
The Educators (Iqbal Campus)
Pakistan
Distinction · Grade A+Certifications
- ✓Alibaba Cloud — Cloud Computing Using SAS to Publish an OpenCart E-Commerce Website (2023)
- ✓University of Colorado — Linux Server Management & Security (2020)
- ✓Harvard University — CS50's AP Computer Science Principles (2019)
- ✓Alibaba Cloud — Cloud Computing Specialist: Operate & Manage a Cloud Server (2018)
Books & technical writing
Honorary Technical Author for the official Alibaba Cloud Blog, with 50+ published guides on cloud computing, software engineering, cybersecurity, Linux, networking and DevOps — plus practitioner books on Amazon.
The AI-Powered Small Business
The Operating Manual for Automating Marketing, Sales, and Daily Workflows
Amazon · Paperback ISBN 9798174066984 · ASIN B0HJPBR8ST
View on AmazonExploring Computing
Technical book series on computing fundamentals and modern practice
Amazon
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Selected Guides
- 01Cloud Networking: The Powerhouse Behind Your Cloud Applications
- 02Serverless Computing: Benefits, Challenges, and the Code-Free Frontier
- 03How To Set Up Secure Nginx Server Blocks on Ubuntu 22.04
- 04How to Install Docker on Ubuntu 20.04
- 05WireGuard VPN on Ubuntu 20.04: Setup and Deployment
- 06Deploying Mastodon Using Docker on Alibaba Cloud ECS
- 07Setting Up a Chef Server Workstation on Linux
- 08A Brief Guide for Configuring Nagios
Lectures, Talks & Workshops
Sharing knowledge on software engineering, cloud, and cybersecurity through talks and hands-on workshops.
Cloud Computing & Hands-On Server Provisioning
2018Alibaba Cloud Community Event · Marian Hotel, Gujranwala, Pakistan
Organized and presented an Alibaba Cloud community lecture on cloud computing, with hands-on cloud-server provisioning and a live WordPress deployment.
Online Business, E-Commerce & Cloud Computing
2019Alibaba Cloud Community Event · COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus
Lecture on online business, e-commerce and cloud computing, closing with a live WooCommerce deployment for the audience.
COMSATS Queue Management System
2017DICE-IET Innovation Exhibition · Pakistan
Presented the CQMS project at the national DICE-IET exhibition, taking 3rd position with distinction among IT projects from universities across Pakistan.
Places I've explored
Beyond the screen — 11 destinations across 9 countries and regions.
Scotland
United Kingdom
England
United Kingdom
Wales
United Kingdom
Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
Qatar
Middle East
Azerbaijan
Caucasus
Dubai
UAE
Sharjah
UAE
Abu Dhabi
UAE
Oman
Middle East
Saudi Arabia
Middle East
Let's work together
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Mission & vision
Mission
To build innovative, secure, and intelligent digital products that empower businesses worldwide.
Vision
To establish a globally recognized technology company that delivers world-class software, AI systems, cybersecurity solutions, and cloud platforms while pushing the boundaries of innovation.
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