open to opportunities

Building and running backend systems that don't fall over.

I'm Muhammad Mujtaba — a backend developer moving deep into DevOps: provisioning infrastructure, containerizing services, and shipping them the way production actually demands. Lahore, Pakistan.

mujtaba@lahore ~ zsh
01 / Stack

What I build and deploy with

Organized the way I actually think about it — from infrastructure up to the interface.

Cloud & Infraprovision · configure
AWSTerraformLinuxGit & GitHub
Containers & Orchestrationpackage · run · scale
DockerDocker ComposeKubernetes
BackendAPIs · services
Node.jsExpress.jsMongoDBJWT AuthREST APIs
Frontendinterfaces
ReactHTMLCSS
Languagesday to day
JavaScriptPython
02 / Projects

Things I've shipped

Backend-first builds — auth, data modeling, and API design.

~/projects/youtube-api-clone

YouTube API Clone

A backend system modeled on YouTube's core flows — secure JWT authentication and RESTful APIs for videos, users, and comments. Used MongoDB with Mongoose to manage relationships (including populate for linked data), with authorization rules ensuring users can only reach their own resources.

Node.jsExpressMongoDBMongooseJWT
~/projects/bookmystay-api

BookMyStay — Hotel Booking Backend

A hotel booking backend with authentication and role-based access split between guests and hosts. Built APIs for listings, bookings, and user profiles, added file upload handling, and designed the database schema with an eye toward deployment.

Node.jsExpressRBACREST API
~/projects/book-api-backend

Book API Backend

A CRUD-focused API for managing books, built to practice clean backend fundamentals: JWT auth, MongoDB/Mongoose data modeling, Multer + Cloudinary for file uploads, and consistent tooling with ESLint, Prettier, and environment configuration.

Node.jsExpressMongoDBCloudinaryESLint
03 / Background

Education

Formal study, alongside the hands-on backend and DevOps work above.

2022 — 2026

Bachelor of Business & Information Technology

University of Engineering & Technology (UET)
  • Coursework in Database Management Systems (DBMS) and core SQL
2018 — 2019

Matriculation, Science Group

IQRA Secondary School, Lahore
  • Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology

CERTIFICATIONS

CPR — Cardiopulmonary ResuscitationCERT

LANGUAGES

Englishfluent
Urdunative
04 / Contact

Let's talk

Open to backend and DevOps roles.

Whether it's an internship, a junior role, or a project that needs someone comfortable across the stack and the infrastructure underneath it — reach out.

LOCATIONPCSIR Phase 1, Lahore