Zain Zafar

Engineer getting humbled by AI

Zain Zafar

I design and build products end to end, from the first sketch to the code that ships.

I'm Zain, a software engineer from Islamabad. Mostly frontend, but comfortable across the stack. Currently building Meelio as a side project.

Work Experience

2024 — Now

Senior Software Engineer at ShopSense AI

2023 — 2024

Senior Software Engineer at Emumba

2023

Senior Software Engineer at ServiceBell

2022 — 2026

Creator at Meelio

2020 — 2023

Senior Fullstack Engineer at Polly

2019 — 2020

Senior Software Engineer at STOQO

Earlier roles, 2013 — 2019
2015 — 2019

Senior Software Engineer at Aurora Solutions

2015

Software Engineer at Convo

2013 — 2015

Student Partner at Microsoft

Stack

Brighter is what I use all the time. Dimmer is what I have shipped once or twice.

Frontend

ReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSViteTanStackAstroZustand

Backend

Node.jsPostgresDrizzleTurborepoHonoFastifyFastAPI

AI & agents

Claude APIClaude Code pluginsOpenAIVercel AI SDK

Payments

StripeLemon Squeezy

Cloud

AWS LambdaCloudFrontCloudflareVercelDockerGitHub ActionsStep FunctionsInngestRailway

Extensions

Chrome (WXT)SwiftUIVS Code

Motion

WebGL shadersThree.jsMotionPixiJSRemotion

Testing

VitestPlaywright

Projects

Offshelf

Chrome extension

Save articles and X threads with their images, read them offline, and export them as HTML, Markdown or PDF.

Fregix

SaaS platform

Runs a company’s day-to-day operations through a customer portal and a separate admin platform.

GoMyelin

Design tool

Turns a written brief into an AI-built UI screen, then renders it and scores it against a visual quality bar.

Line Comments

VS Code extension

Attach comments to individual lines of code without touching the source file.

Meelio

Web app and browser extension

An offline-first focus app with timers, soundscapes and breathing exercises.

Yap

macOS app

Hold a hotkey and speak. Yap types the text into whatever you are writing, entirely on your Mac.

FollowOps

Chrome extension

Capture follow-ups from any page and keep chasing them until they are done. Local-first, no backend.

Scroll Meter

Chrome extension

Turns how far you scroll into floors climbed and landmark comparisons, then wraps it into a shareable card.

Storio

AI experiment

An interactive story builder where the model decides when to show rich UI instead of plain text.

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