a studio of one, built around the work most teams hand off three times.
schema, model, ui, deploy: one engineer owning every layer, so a prototype that works in a notebook still works the day a real user presses the button.
rag, document understanding, agents. production code with the retrieval, evals and guardrails wired in from day one.
→ the kind of build that survives launch week without 3am pages.
spring boot, go, real-time pipelines, oauth and sso. the third-party integrations clients always discover halfway through.
→ the build that passes a security review, not just a demo.
schema to deploy, one engineer. no handoffs, no seams, no waiting on someone else's branch.
→ one engineer owning schema to deploy, so the deadline is real.
architecture review, scope-cutting, code review on the hot paths.
→ architecture review, scope cuts, and code review on the calls that compound.
→ one engineer, end to end.q3 2026 · 1 build at a time→ under 48h, always._End-to-end brand, booking site and photography direction for a single-suite Airbnb on the south coast of Sri Lanka.
Cover replaces a 28-page policy PDF with one scrollable contract you can finish in a single sitting.
Cadence finds the one hour next week when seven distributed people are actually free, not just looking free on a calendar.
End-to-end personal finance for Sri Lanka, with an AI extraction pipeline reading bank emails and SMS into one ledger.
Brand, web and spatial direction for a 12,000 sq ft co-working space in Havelock City, organised around a living indoor atrium.
Shuhaib is a senior software engineer in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Currently building Sysco Labs’ internal agentic orchestration platform with Frontwalker: the layer that powers multi-agent AI across the enterprise.
Six years writing production code. Most of it on Planyear’s US benefits stack at Altrium: OAuth and SSO flows, the Outlook add-in that shipped to Microsoft AppSource in four weeks, the AI-assistant UI wired over WebSocket to a live model.
The studio is where the build work lives. Solo engagements, one at a time. Usually a prototype that has to survive contact with a real user before anyone else commits to it.
Booking q3 2026, one build at a time. Replies inside 48 hours, always.
Building Sysco's internal agentic orchestration framework: the platform that powers multi-agent AI systems across the enterprise. Agentic workflows, software design, system-level shape.
#01Led a scrum team end-to-end across design, architecture, and ship. Drove the Outlook (Desktop & Web) add-in to Microsoft AppSource in four weeks. Mentorship on the hot paths, sprint discipline, predictable delivery.
#02Digital Benefit Guide: OAuth, SSO, cookie-based auth, and performance work on a large-scale app. Planyear AI-Assistant: complex UI and WebSocket-based real-time communication with the assistant backend.
#03RAG with hybrid retrieval, document understanding, agentic workflows. With the evals and guardrails that keep them alive after launch week.
#01Spring Boot, Go, real-time pipelines, OAuth and SSO. The plumbing that has to work at 3am.
#02Schema, model, frontend, backend, infra, deploy. One engineer owning every layer end to end.
#03Architecture review, scope-cutting, code review on the hot paths. The senior call when there's only one shot at it.
#04OpenAI, Anthropic, RAG, evals, observability for LLM systems. Eval harnesses that catch drift before customers do.
#05AWS, GCP, Vercel, Postgres, Mongo, Docker, CI/CD. The boring layer every AI feature eventually leans on.
#06GSAP, canvas, scroll-driven prototypes. Interfaces that feel inevitable.
#07End-to-end brand, booking site and photography direction for a single-suite Airbnb on the south coast of Sri Lanka.
#01Cover replaces a 28-page policy PDF with one scrollable contract you can finish in a single sitting.
#02Cadence finds the one hour next week when seven distributed people are actually free, not just looking free on a calendar.
#03End-to-end personal finance for Sri Lanka, with an AI extraction pipeline reading bank emails and SMS into one ledger.
#04Brand, web and spatial direction for a 12,000 sq ft co-working space in Havelock City, organised around a living indoor atrium.
#05started on the backend: spring boot services for fintech. moved into ai feature work the moment the field stopped being demo-grade. the studio now sits where most teams hand off three times: schema, model, ui, deploy. one engineer, one engagement, no waiting room.
a written brief names the outcome, the surface area, and what is explicitly out of scope. no scope creep without renegotiation.
friday demo, monday changelog. you never have to ask where the work stands.
runbooks, docs, transition session. your team owns what i built the day the engagement ends.
three picks, a short description, contact line. you get a fixed range on the spot, not a callback, not a discovery call.