I'm Hanan.
CS student by day, full-stack developer by the rest of the 24 hours. I've shipped more projects than I've slept hours.
THE STORY
I didn't start with a computer science degree. I started with a screwdriver.
At 15, I was running a solo mobile repair shop — diagnosing boards, replacing screens, sourcing parts. That's where I learned that systems break in predictable ways if you understand them deeply enough.
The jump to software was natural. I built RC cars from bare wire, flashed custom ROMs, managed a 4-OS EFI boot setup before I knew what a kernel was. When I finally wrote my first real program, it felt like the same thing — just invisible hardware.
Since first semester at UET Lahore, I've been building: TransitFlow (real-time Orange Line routing), Li'nage VCS (a Git-like version control in C#), Authn (enterprise auth system), and Shopit (a full multi-tenant e-commerce platform with Kafka, ClickHouse, and schema-per-tenant PostgreSQL).
I don't wait for assignments to build things. I build because I can't not.
STACK
Frontend
Next.jsReact
CURRENTLY
Third semester at UET Lahore — officially studying, unofficially running distributed systems at 2am on Oracle Cloud ARM infrastructure.
Actively building:
- Shopit SE — multi-tenant e-commerce platform for Pakistani bazaar merchants. NestJS, Next.js, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, JazzCash payments.
- DevOops — an online hackathon platform with algorithmic judging, ELO-based team assignment, and Docker-based test engine.
- GSMArena Scraper — 10k+ devices indexed, Typesense search, lazy-scrape-on-cache-miss architecture.
Open to freelance work and interesting collaborations.
BEYOND CODE
I shoot photography on budget devices — finding geometry in mundane spaces, light in overlooked corners. No expensive gear, just attention.
I read and write Urdu poetry. Ahmad Faraz and Parveen Shakir live rent-free in my head. There's something about the compression of Urdu verse — entire worlds in two lines — that feels related to good code.
I think a lot about physics, theology, and linguistics. Not separately — together. How systems of meaning get built, how they break, how they persist.