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Kaif Ayaz Khan

Full Stack Developer

About Me

Full stack developer with 3+ years of experience building production web apps using React, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Strong focus on performance, scalability, and shipping user-facing features in fast-moving teams. Deeply committed to continuous learning and best practices

Experience

Jan 2026 - Present

Frontend Developer · Aqary International Group

Optimized front-end apps using Next.js and TypeScript, leading to faster loading pages by 30%, and incorporated high-speed search capabilities with Typesense to achieve search results within less than 100 ms per listing. Designed highly scalable listing pages, incorporating filtering and sorting as well as pagination capabilities for more than 10,000 entries, making use of GraphQL APIs to reduce over-fetching by 25%.

Feb 2025 - Jan 2026

Full Stack Developer · Bo Shamlan

Developed a responsive, accessible, and multilingual real estate marketplace with a strong focus on performance and user experience. Led frontend architecture using Astro and React, improving performance scores from 70 to 95+ and reducing build time from 15 minute to 2.5 minute. Collaborated on backend APIs and admin dashboard features to support secure content management and platform scale.

Aug 2023 - Jan 2025

Full Stack Developer · Immutable Labs

Built full-stack AI image generation features using Stable Diffusion APIs, supporting text-to-image, image-to-image, and QR-based generation workflows. Developed end-to-end functionality with Next.js, Node.js, and TypeScript, focusing on performance, scalability, and clean user experiences. Implemented secure authentication, IPFS-based decentralized storage, and Web3 integrations on Aptos.

Side Projects

ImgKit

ImgKit is an open source, browser-based image editor designed for speed and stability, even with complex images. It offers essential editing tools such as resize, format conversion, compression, quality control, and rotation. The project includes full authentication with access and refresh tokens, auto-retry on token expiry, and secure S3-based image storage using pre-signed URLs.

  • Next.js-
  • TypeScript-
  • Tailwind CSS-
  • Node.js-
  • Express.js-
  • PostgreSQL-
  • Sharp-
  • AWS

Describe Art

Describe Art is a text to image generation platform that turns user prompts into high quality visuals using Vision AI. It uses Stable Diffusion XL, Flux Schnell, and Flux Dev to deliver detailed and consistent outputs. The platform includes a personal gallery backed by AWS S3 and PostgreSQL, with infinite scroll and cursor-based pagination for smooth browsing and image management.

  • Next.js-
  • TailwindCSS-
  • TypeScript-
  • PostgreSQL-
  • Drizzle ORM-
  • AWS (S3 + Cloudfront)-
  • Better Auth

Style Verse

Style Verse is a responsive e-commerce web app with dynamic product listings and advanced filtering by category, brand, size, rating, and price. It includes core features like cart and wishlist management, user authentication, and smooth navigation using React Router with state managed via Context API.

  • React-
  • TailwindCSS-
  • Firebase Auth-
  • Context API