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Web & Mobile Development
Portfolio · v2026

Senior Full-stack Engineer

— Vijay "Vashu" Karn Kathmandu, Nepal · Open to remote roles worldwide

I architect and ship production systems across e-commerce, healthcare, IoT, and real-time platforms. 6+ years of PHP/Laravel, Flutter, and distributed systems — from greenfield to scaled production.

About Vashu Karn

I'm a Senior Full Stack Engineer with a deep affection for well-architected systems. I've led engineering teams of up to 10 engineers and owned end-to-end delivery of microservice architectures, cross-platform mobile, IoT control planes, and payments at production scale.

Currently Technical Head at Alltechlabs, where I architected GetDirect — a food-delivery price-comparison engine serving 200+ Indian cities through ONDC.

Name Vijay Ranjan Karn
Role Senior Full Stack Engineer
Based In Kathmandu, Nepal
Experience 6+ Years
Phone +91 7070675425
Languages English · Hindi · Nepali
Status Open to opportunities
0+ Years building production systems
0 Products shipped across web & mobile
0 Engineers led at peak team size
0+ Cities served by GetDirect platform

A career journey
across six
engineering homes.

From a junior Laravel role in Kathmandu to leading a 10-engineer team, then architecting microservices and running engineering for an India-wide marketplace — six roles, one through-line: ship production systems that hold up.

  1. Feb 2023 — Present Remote

    Technical Head

    Alltechlabs Pvt. Ltd.

    Architected GetDirect as a microservice suite — a live food-delivery price-comparison platform across 200+ Indian cities. Chose Typesense for search, Ably for realtime, Razorpay for payments. Drove ONDC ecosystem integration (Buyer, Seller, Logistics) and built a price-comparison engine scraping Swiggy, Zomato, Magicpin, Uber Eats, and EatSure.

    MicroservicesONDCTypesenseAblyDockerSentry
  2. Feb 2022 — Feb 2023 Kathmandu, NP

    Full Stack Developer

    Uptechsys Pvt. Ltd.

    Led a 10-engineer team to deliver a Real Estate Trading platform with AWS Rekognition. Built an HR Management System with ZKTeco biometric integration and Hisaabkeeper accounting; delivered a multilingual Waste Management System with role-based access. Designed SEO-optimized school landing pages on Laravel Nova with Slack-webhook integrations.

    Team LeadAWS RekognitionLaravel NovaBiometrics
  3. Jan 2021 — Feb 2022 Kathmandu, NP

    Mid-Level PHP Developer

    Peepal International Pvt. Ltd.

    Designed microservice Admin / Customer / Seller dashboards for ePeepal, Nepal's multi-vendor marketplace. Drove a 30% performance boost and 40% downtime reduction via PWA, Redis, Laravel Horizon, and Laravel Nova. Stood up CI/CD on Bitbucket with Sentry and Slack integration; built SEO-optimized landing pages with international payment gateways.

    MicroservicesRedisHorizonPWA
  4. Jun 2021 — Sept 2021 Kathmandu, NP · PT

    Part-Time Laravel Developer

    Zenlab Pvt. Ltd.

    Built Digitalpalika, a multilingual eGovernance platform for civil registrations (Birth, Death, Migration, Marriage) deployed across local government bodies. Shipped NepoLive, a BigoLive-style live audio/video streaming app on Ant Media Server with wallet, gifts, credits, and ranking. Delivered the Mailo App backend for multi-restaurant management, farmers' eShop, and bakery delivery.

    eGovernanceAnt MediaStreaming
  5. Jun 2020 — Jan 2021 Kathmandu, NP

    Junior Laravel Developer

    Nectar Digit Pvt. Ltd.

    Shipped Gurudai (formerly Shreevahan), a ride-sharing platform with rider/customer apps, heatmap APIs for geo-sorted dispatch, and a Cargo Air Logistics system. Optimized SQL and indexes for 20× faster retrieval. Contributed to eNewspaper platforms (Aajakokhabar, CapitalNepal) and eShopping Nepal e-commerce.

    Ride-sharingSQL OptimizationHeatmaps

B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering

Sanskriti University
2017 — 2021 CGPA · 8.1 / 10

I craft reliable systems
for the web, mobile, and
the things in between.

I take products from a blank schema to production traffic — owning architecture, backend, mobile, and the boring-but-vital parts (CI/CD, observability, payments) that decide whether you ship or stall.

01

Architecture & Backend

Laravel monoliths, microservice suites, Composer-distributed core packages, event-driven flows, and REST/GraphQL APIs. Built for clarity and rebuild-ability — not for showing off.

  • Laravel · Livewire · Node.js · Django
  • MySQL · PostgreSQL · Redis · MongoDB
  • Typesense · OpenSearch · Firestore
02

Cross-Platform Mobile

Production Flutter apps with bloc and Riverpod state, full Firebase suite, payments, maps, deep links, and crash-free observability. Live on iOS and Android in real markets.

  • Flutter · Dart · flutter_bloc · Riverpod
  • FCM · Crashlytics · Sentry · Microsoft Clarity
  • Stripe · Razorpay · Khalti · eSewa
03

IoT & Real-Time

MQTT-based device control, Nayax payment-station integration, Ably/Pusher realtime channels, audiometric tone generation, and Bluetooth medical-device connectivity.

  • MQTT · Nayax · Ant Media · Bluetooth
  • Ably · Pusher · WebSockets
  • Firebase RTDB · Hardware-aware flows
04

DevOps & Observability

Containerized services, automated deploys, and instrumentation that surfaces problems before users do — so 3am pages become rare instead of routine.

  • Docker · Bitbucket Pipelines · Jenkins
  • Sentry · Laravel Pulse · Horizon
  • Slack alerting · AWS · GCP · DigitalOcean

Tools I reach for, daily.

Languages & Frameworks

PHPLaravelLivewireDartFlutterPythonDjangoNode.jsNext.js

Architecture & Design

MicroservicesComposer PackagesEvent-drivenREST APIsONDC

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS EC2/S3/LambdaGCPFirebaseDigitalOceanDockerMQTT

Databases & Search

MySQLPostgreSQLRedisMongoDBTypesenseOpenSearchFirestore

DevOps & Observability

Bitbucket PipelinesJenkinsSentryMS ClarityHorizonPulse

Payments & Realtime

StripeRazorpayKhaltieSewaIMEPayNICAsia CyberSourceAblyPusher

Mobile & Tooling

flutter_blocRiverpodJIRAdompdfTipTapSpatie SuiteAWS Rekognition

User-centered development approach
enhances productivity and
drives revenue growth.

Products and platforms I've architected or shipped — at Alltechlabs, Uptechsys, Peepal International, Zenlab, and Nectar Digit — plus my own side projects and open source.

GetDirect — real-time food-delivery price comparison across 200+ cities

GetDirect

2023 — Present · Alltechlabs

Microservice suite (admin, seller, mobile API, analytics, comparison) with a Composer-distributed core package. Scrapes Swiggy, Zomato, Magicpin, Uber Eats & EatSure; ONDC integrated; iOS & Android Flutter app with flutter_bloc.

MicroservicesONDCTypesenseAblyRazorpay
Karn Arogyam · Vernal Sounds — hearing-aid and audiometry healthcare platform

Karn Arogyam · Vernal Sounds

Side Project

Healthcare technology — hearing-aid web platform and Flutter companion for tinnitus therapy, plus a patient app for audiometry with Bluetooth medical-device connectivity.

Laravel 11FlutterBluetoothRazorpay
Sewa Sathi — on-demand home-services marketplace for Nepal

Sewa Sathi

Side Project

Home-services marketplace for Nepal — plumbing, electrical, cleaning, and salon — with Laravel 12 backend, Flutter customer + partner apps, Khalti/Razorpay payments, Sparrow SMS OTP, and Pusher real-time dispatch.

Laravel 12FlutterKhaltiPusher
AllezSportz — India's sports training marketplace

AllezSportz

Side Project

India's sports training marketplace — Laravel + Flutter on iOS & Android. Connects athletes, coaches, and sponsors across 6+ sports: booking, tournaments, verified athlete sponsorship, and equipment commerce.

LaravelFlutteriOS · Android
BhadaBinaDalal — broker-free rental marketplace for Kathmandu

BhadaBinaDalal

Side Project · GitHub

Broker-free rental marketplace for Kathmandu — owners list rooms and flats free while renters search a map and reveal owner contacts directly. Stacked anti-broker measures (listing caps, 60-day expiry, reports, duplicate detection), map search, and locality SEO pages.

LaravelLivewireMySQLLeafletTailwind
UniPath — course and university finder with plain-English AI search

UniPath

Side Project · GitHub

Course & university discovery platform — search and compare programs by fee, location, and degree, or describe what you want in plain English and AI search maps it to the right filters. Role-based access for students, admins, and super-admins with an approval workflow and full technical SEO.

Laravel 12Livewire 3SpatieAI SearchMySQL
Laravel Inertia Storefront — e-commerce starter with AI natural-language product search

Laravel Inertia Storefront

Side Project · GitHub

Open-source e-commerce starter on Laravel 13, Inertia & React — full storefront (catalogue, variants, cart, guest/account checkout, order tracking, reviews) plus an admin panel with POS, inventory, CSV import/export, and staff roles. AI natural-language product search parses plain English into category and price filters, with a rule-based fallback. Payments pre-wired for COD, eSewa & Khalti.

Laravel 13InertiaReactAI SearchTailwind
WindoWriter — cross-platform tool for creating bootable Windows USB installers

WindoWriter

Side Project · GitHub

Cross-platform Swift tool that turns a Windows ISO into a UEFI-bootable USB installer — with SHA-256 verified writes so a stick that passes actually boots, ESD image support, automatic Intel RST/VMD driver provisioning to fix the "no drives found" bug, and safety rails that refuse the boot disk. Ships a native SwiftUI macOS app and a scriptable CLI from one shared engine.

SwiftSwiftUISPMmacOSCLI
ePeepal Multi-vendor Marketplace · Nepal

ePeepal

2021 — 2022 · Peepal

Nepal's mass-market multi-vendor e-commerce marketplace — microservice Admin / Customer / Seller dashboards. Drove 30% performance boost and 40% downtime reduction via PWA, Redis, Laravel Horizon & Nova.

MicroservicesRedisHorizonNova
Gurudai Ride-sharing · Heatmap Dispatch

Gurudai · Shreevahan

2020 · Nectar Digit

Ride-sharing platform with rider and customer apps, heatmap APIs for geo-sorted dispatch, and a Cargo Air Logistics Management System. 20× SQL retrieval speedup via index and structure optimization.

Ride-sharingHeatmapsSQL
Digitalpalika eGovernance · Nepal

Digitalpalika

2021 · Zenlab

Multilingual eGovernance platform for civil registrations (Birth, Death, Migration, Marriage) deployed across local government bodies in Nepal.

eGovernanceMultilingual
NepoLive Live Streaming · Ant Media

NepoLive

2021 · Zenlab

BigoLive-style live audio/video streaming app for Nepal — wallet, gifts, credits, and ranking systems on Ant Media Server.

Ant MediaStreamingRealtime
Real Estate Trading AWS Rekognition

Real Estate Trading Platform

2022 · Uptechsys

Led a 10-engineer team to deliver an AI-assisted real-estate trading platform with AWS Rekognition integration; shipped on time with seamless deployment.

Team LeadAWS RekognitionLaravel
HR Management ZKTeco Biometrics

HR Management System

2022 · Uptechsys

Built an HR Management System with ZKTeco biometric device integration and Hisaabkeeper accounting; multilingual Waste Management System with role-based access.

BiometricsHisaabkeeperRBAC

Packages I ship
and run in production.

Two libraries on the public registries — both born from real production needs and still in use in shipped products.

Author · Maintainer

bing_image_extractor

PHP · Laravel · Composer
Packagist version Packagist downloads GitHub stars

Composer package for programmatic Bing image lookups in Laravel applications. Drop-in service with configurable filters, pagination, and a clean facade — built originally for an internal content tool, then opened up.

composer require vashukarn/bing_image_extractor
Contributor · Maintainer (fork)

sound_generator

Dart · Flutter · Audio
pub.dev version pub.dev likes GitHub fork

Procedural audio generator for Flutter — clean sine, square, triangle, sawtooth waveforms with smooth frequency transitions. I maintain a fork tuned for clinical-grade audiometric tones, used in production at Karn Arogyam for hearing diagnostics.

flutter pub add sound_generator

Also keeping a public Flutter Bluetooth Serial fork around for medical-device prototyping. Source-only, no registry release.

Leadership, Open Source & Certifications

Leadership

Engineering Leadership

Led a 10-engineer team at Uptechsys; held Technical Head responsibilities at Alltechlabs spanning architecture, code review, hiring input, and technology selection.

Community

Head Co-ordinator · GOFCA

Ground Zero Forum for Computer Application at Sanskriti University (200+ members). Drove 50% growth in participation. Organizer and Co-director of the 1st GOFCA Hackathon (2018).

Certifications

Backend & DevOps

GitHub Actions for CI/CD · Linux Command Line · Build Laravel Apps Fast with Blueprint · AWS S3 · Oracle Database Foundations.

Certifications

Mobile & Languages

Getting Started with Flutter Development · Crash Course on Python · 100 Days of Code Python Pro Bootcamp.

Certifications

Process & Business

Agile with Atlassian Jira · Foundations of Digital Marketing & E-commerce. (Udemy, Coursera — 2022-2024)

The questions
I get most often.

Before you write, here's the short answer to the things people usually ask first.

Are you available for remote roles?

Yes. I'm based in Kathmandu, Nepal and work fully remote. I keep flexible hours and overlap several hours daily with US Eastern, European, and Indian time zones.

What's your primary stack?

PHP/Laravel (including Livewire 4) on the backend, Flutter for cross-platform mobile, and the surrounding ecosystem — MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Typesense, Docker, AWS, Firebase, Stripe/Razorpay/Khalti, MQTT for IoT, and Sentry/Pulse/Horizon for observability.

Do you take on freelance or contract work?

I take selective contract engagements alongside my full-time role, typically for architecture reviews, greenfield backend or mobile builds, payments/IoT integrations, or fractional tech-lead work. Email itsvashukarn@gmail.com with the scope.

Have you led engineering teams?

Yes. I led a 10-engineer team at Uptechsys delivering a real-estate trading platform, and held Technical Head responsibilities at Alltechlabs covering architecture, code review, hiring input, and technology selection across multiple microservices.

What kind of projects interest you most?

Roles where I can own a senior IC track or a small high-leverage team, work on systems that touch real users, and keep the production loop tight. Bonus if there's hardware, payments, or genuine scale involved — e-commerce, healthcare, IoT, and real-time platforms are where my work has landed so far.

I am eager to connect with you
and hear your thoughts.