SAMI/MALIK
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Full-stack & applied AI · Engineering leadership

Nobody has ever hired me for just one thing.

I build web platforms and production AI systems, from the first working version to the architecture behind them. Currently leading engineering at YouGuide International, remotely from Pakistan.

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Guides published by the AI pipeline
50,000+
Products running on one platform
3
Wix sites delivered, Legend Partner
75+
Fiverr Pro rating, 114 reviews
4.9★
Years building in production
7+

Selected work

Systems I have built end to end.

YouGuide homepage: travel guide, language guide and eSIM products.
AI platform

YouGuide content engine youguide.com ↗

A reusable AI publishing system for travel, language, technical and botanical guides.

The challenge
Generated travel advice needs to describe real places. A fluent answer alone is not enough to publish.
What I built
An AI generation and publishing pipeline with a validation layer that checks referenced locations before publication. I refined the prompting to reduce failures and reused the core across three products.
The result
More than 50,000 guides published. The catalogue is licensed through partnerships with leading AI companies and contributes a significant revenue line.

My scope: pipeline development, platform architecture and engineering standards.

LLM APIs · prompt engineering · output validation · Node.js

Rolla Video homepage: collecting user-generated video at scale.
Commercial

Rolla Video rollavideo.com ↗

Backend tools and a self-serve campaign dashboard for a video-creation platform.

The challenge
Support internal operations and customer campaigns around a growing collection of user-generated video.
What I built
A backend system and Retool admin panel connected to production data through GraphQL queries and mutations, alongside the customer-facing site and campaign dashboard.
The result
The platform grew to 5,726 accounts and 134,450 clips. My work supported a major enterprise renewal and a multi-million-dollar enterprise RFP.

My scope: backend integration, internal tools and customer-facing delivery.

Retool · GraphQL · Wix · responsive web-app

More systems, across different domains.

WISEcode homepage: checking whether food is ultra-processed.
Commercial

WISEcode wisecode.ai ↗

Discovery platform for survival foods, contracted through a Nevada LLC. Designed and built the product, then reworked the architecture so a growing family of sites could be updated and managed at scale rather than one at a time.

Wix Velo · JavaScript · architecture

Grid of twelve client websites: a PR agency, catering and events, a cab service, a music-therapy charity, an IT consultancy, a creator-tools platform, an SEO consultant, a wellness brand, a real-estate media company, a trading network, a real-estate video product and a research lab.
Commercial

75+ client web platforms

Booking systems, quizzes, event management and payment integrations for businesses across the US, UK and Europe. Wix Legend Partner and vetted Fiverr Pro.

JavaScript · Node.js · Wix Velo · Stripe · Chargebee · Google APIs

Ground control station: multi-UAV mission planning over 3D terrain Quest Lab
Mission-critical

Autonomous UAV & defence systems questlab.pk ↗

Ground control and multi-UAV mission planning over 3D terrain, plus onboard autonomy that keeps aircraft working when the ground link drops. I also built signal-analysis tooling and validated systems in live field tests.

MAVLink · ArduPilot · Raspberry Pi · CesiumJS · LabVIEW · ElectronJS · MERN

Geospatial

GIS & mapping tooling

A run of geospatial projects on one 3D mapping stack: live GIS maps generated by stitching drone and satellite imagery into aligned tiles, 3D flight-path simulation for quadcopter and fixed-wing platforms, and route planning over open street data.

CesiumJS · JavaScript · tile pipelines · OpenStreetMap

Data & mapping

Electoral data mapping

An interactive platform for exploring national election data geographically. Constituencies render as togglable layers over satellite terrain with district and polling-station overlays, and selecting a seat opens its full picture: winning candidate, party, vote counts, turnout, registered-voter totals and gender split. The analysis layer compares one election against the previous one, breaking results down by voter age band and connectivity.

CesiumJS · JavaScript · geospatial joins · interactive data visualisation

Developer tooling

MAPLE

A tool for automated generation of cross-platform mobile application variants, combining software product-line engineering with model-driven engineering. Validated by using it to build matching iOS and Android applications from a single model.

Java · JavaFX · Eclipse PDE

Also delivered: Audiobook Release Tier 7 Network Math Addiction Klang Kreise Envision Media ColourPR JK Logistics

The story

From flight tests to production platforms.

2014–18University

Where the habit started.

I studied computer science at Capital University of Science and Technology, and spent more time on things nobody assigned than on the coursework: an iOS music player, a stock and billing system for a local medical store, an Android game about kicking rival politicians out of parliament. Most were bad. All of them taught me more than the syllabus did.

I started taking freelance work before I graduated, which set the pattern for everything since.

That's me on the right, mid-air2018

BS (Hons) Computer Science · Capital University of Science & Technology · 2018
CGPA 3.61 · Five Dean’s Honour Awards · First place in an inter-university speed programming competition.

2018–23Quest Lab

Learning what reliability means.

I joined a UAV research lab after university and learned to fly the aircraft I was programming. Standing in a field watching my code fly changed how I approached testing: simulation tells you what you modelled; flight tells you what you missed.

I left as Team Lead, leading six engineers and mentoring five interns.

Field testingQuest Lab
Field team seated at a folding table on a dirt embankment beside a fixed-wing UAV.
Pre-flightQuest Lab
Two engineers assembling a multirotor airframe in a field before a test flight.
AirframeQuest Lab
Fixed-wing UAV on grass before a test flight.
Flight log comparison: two sorties replayed against each otherQuest Lab
Test benchQuest Lab
Standing beside a rack of signal-analysis instrumentation and oscilloscopes.
Direction findingQuest Lab
Direction-finding console: polar bearing plot, amplitude-against-angle graphs and a table of detected emitters.
2022–Independent

Learning the business of delivery.

Freelance work became full-time contracting in January 2023. Building for clients taught me to scope honestly, explain technical trade-offs clearly, and ship when someone’s revenue depends on the date.

Remote, from Rawalpindi, where most of this was builtOngoing
Working at a desk in front of a large monitor.
2023–YouGuide

Owning the system, and its direction.

I joined YouGuide as a contract developer and now lead engineering, with two engineers reporting to me. My work spans strategy, architecture and engineering standards across three products, working remotely with the Belgian team.

Capabilities

What I work with.

Languages

JavaScript, Python, Java, C++, Swift, SQL, LabVIEW, HTML5, CSS3

Frontend

React, Next.js, Redux, Tailwind CSS, SASS, Bootstrap, responsive design

Backend & APIs

Node.js, Express, REST, GraphQL, JWT authentication

Cloud & infrastructure

AWS (EC2, S3), Docker, Firebase auth and Cloud Functions, Railway, Render, Vercel, Netlify

AI & LLM

OpenAI and Claude APIs, prompt engineering, hallucination mitigation, output validation, content pipelines

Testing & automation

Cypress, Selenium for automated testing and scraping, Postman

Platforms & data

Retool, Wix Velo, MongoDB, MySQL, Firebase, Stripe, Chargebee, Amazon SP-API

Mobile & desktop

SwiftUI and iOS, Android with Java, ElectronJS

Embedded & autonomous

MAVLink, ArduPilot, Raspberry Pi companion computers, CesiumJS GIS, NI PXIe instrumentation

Client feedback

What working with me is like.

“I thought I knew how I wanted to implement it, but Sami came up with a much more elegant solution that just works better.”
Dion MorrowCEO, FreeLights
“By far the best experience I have had working with an independent contractor anywhere, not just online.”
Sara BorghiHead of SEO, Reelevate (Arsenalia Group)
“Everything went smoothly and the work delivered was customized to my needs. Would definitely work with Sami again.”
Ashley MurphyFounder, Global Financial Planning Institute

Contact

Let's talk.

Portrait of Sami Malik.

I’m interested in full-stack and applied AI projects where I can take responsibility for architecture and delivery, whether through an engineering role, a collaboration or a contract. Tell me what you’re building and where you need help.

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