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Adnan Umar — Founder-Engineer

About

Adnan Umar

I get founders' products live, paid, and owned — fast.

Founder-engineer · 16+ years · Islamabad, Pakistan · Available globally

Why founders work with me

Most founders don't need a résumé — they need their product live, working, and earning. That's what I do: take an idea and ship it to production fast, then hand you something real that's entirely yours. The 16+ years of engineering behind it is just the reason it actually holds up once real users arrive.

Currently Senior Engineer and Solution Architect at BIZSOL, where I lead engineering and architecture for enterprise clients. In parallel, I built dst.travel solo from idea to live production in 3 months — three SaaS apps with GPT-4o AI workflows, Stripe billing, AWS infrastructure, admin systems, and 400+ SEO landing pages.

Then I did it for a client. WarmLane — a multi-tenant cold-outreach and deliverability platform — was designed, architected, built and deployed solo in roughly six weeks: 29 DynamoDB tables, multi-channel sending, AI copy and reply automation, Stripe usage-based billing, a super-admin control plane, and an AWS CDK backend. The kind of product a funded team usually spends 6+ months on.

That clarified something I'd been suspecting: what used to take a team of 5–6 over many months now takes one strong engineer with AI leverage in weeks. The architecture is the same. The decisions are the same. But the execution velocity has been quietly multiplied by AI-assisted development.

My focus now: helping founders apply the same compressed timeline to their own products. A production MVP in 30 days under $10K fixed — or a larger multi-tenant SaaS build scoped and phased to your roadmap. Hands-on, full code transfer. AI products are my sweet spot — but I build non-AI SaaS and internal tools on the same timeline too.

A note on how I work

I'm a builder, not a marketer — and I lean into that. My demos are honest, not polished. My LinkedIn is quiet. What I'm genuinely great at is sitting down and shipping production software, solo, fast. The proof isn't a slick pitch — it's dst.travel and WarmLane: live platforms, real users, real infrastructure — one my own, one a client paid me to build. When you work with me, you get a senior engineer who ships — not a salesperson who sells. That's the deal, and it's on purpose.

Current work

Senior Engineer & Solution Architect — BIZSOL

2020 – Present

Engineering leadership, architecture, enterprise client delivery.

Founder — DST.Travel

2025 – Present

Solo-built AI-powered visa and travel intelligence platform. Live in production with real paying users.

Solo Developer — WarmLane (client)

2026

Multi-tenant cold-outreach & deliverability SaaS, designed and shipped solo in ~6 weeks. AWS serverless, 29 tables, AI, Stripe usage billing, super-admin. In final testing toward GA.

Client & Founder Builds

2026 – Present

Production MVPs in 30 days under $10K, and larger multi-tenant SaaS builds scoped per project. Currently building an AI lead-generation SaaS for a US client.

What I can get live for you

Engineering

  • • Full-stack web (React, TypeScript, Node)
  • • AI workflows (GPT-4o, Claude, custom prompts)
  • • Multi-tenant SaaS architecture + isolation
  • • DynamoDB, PostgreSQL + database design
  • • AWS serverless + CDK infrastructure-as-code
  • • Eventing (SQS / EventBridge) + analytics pipelines
  • • Messaging infra (SES, Twilio, deliverability)
  • • Stripe billing + usage metering
  • • Auth + security (JWT, 2FA, magic-link, OAuth, RBAC)

Product & Strategy

  • • MVP scoping + product strategy
  • • System architecture for scale
  • • SEO infrastructure (programmatic + technical)
  • • Admin + super-admin control planes
  • • Affiliate / referral systems
  • • Usage-based pricing + metering strategy

Beyond the work

Let's get your product live.

Tell me what you want to launch — I'll be honest about whether 30 days is realistic.