Plan→Build→Ship→Repeat·independent consultant

Your personal
AI engineer.

Mohammad Asif · Full-stack engineer & AI consultant

I build AI agents, automations and the apps around them for founders and teams — then stay on to keep them running and getting better. One senior engineer who covers the whole stack: mobile, backend, cloud and AI, with 19+ years of shipping behind it.

Mohammad Asif sitting at his desk in a warmly lit home office
Karachi · GMT+5 · Remote worldwide Mohammad Asif
01 / Services

What I can build for you.

Real applications for real businesses. If yours isn't listed, ask — these are starting points, not a menu.

Knowledge assistants · RAG

Assistants that know your business

Chat assistants that answer from your own documents and data, and say "I don't know" instead of making things up.

  • Customer support bot trained on your docs
  • Internal "ask the company" assistant for staff
  • Policy, contract and document search
  • Sales assistant for product questions
AI agents & automation

Agents that do the work

Agents that take over repetitive, multi-step work across your tools, with a human in the loop where it matters.

  • Lead research and data enrichment
  • Inbox and support ticket triage
  • Automatic reports and summaries
  • Data entry between your systems
Mobile apps

iOS, Android & macOS apps

Native apps built and shipped end to end, from the first screen to the App Store.

  • New apps from scratch
  • AI features inside your existing app
  • VPN, networking and other system-level work
  • Redesigns that grow usage and revenue
SaaS products

From idea to paying users

Web products with the boring-but-essential parts done right, and AI built in from day one.

  • Launch-ready MVPs
  • User accounts, billing and admin dashboards
  • APIs and integrations with your tools
  • Cloud setup that scales on AWS or GCP
App rescue & tech audit

Fix what's broken

For apps that are unstable, abandoned or stuck. I've taken over broken products before and got them shipping again.

  • Taking over a broken or abandoned app
  • Stabilising slow or crashing apps
  • Architecture review before you scale
  • Monitoring so you hear about problems first
02 / How I work

Plan. Build. Ship. Repeat.

The same loop on my whiteboard, applied to your project.

  1. 01 · Plan

    Understand the job

    A call to learn the workflow or product, find where AI actually helps, and agree on a clear scope.

  2. 02 · Build

    Build in the open

    Working pieces early and often, so you see progress and steer it — not a big reveal at the end.

  3. 03 · Ship

    Put it in production

    Deployed on your infrastructure, documented, and handed over so your team understands it.

  4. 04 · Repeat

    Keep improving it

    Monitoring, tuning and new capabilities as your needs grow. AI systems get better with care.

03 / Working together

Ways to work together.

Pick what fits — we can change it as the work changes.

Project

A defined build

One agent, one automation, one app — scoped up front, delivered and handed over.

Advisory

Architecture & AI strategy

Reviews, roadmaps and hands-on guidance for your own team, by the session or by the month.

04 / Work

Things I've built.

Each one in the same four steps: the problem, what was built, what shipped, and what comes next. Click a row.

01

Family Office Intelligence

A multi-agent pipeline that builds a trustworthy dataset with no human in the loop
Plan

Turn a messy universe of websites, SEC filings, news and LinkedIn into a clean, searchable dataset of family offices — automatically.

Build

Independent agents for discovery, classification, enrichment, validation and indexing. No central orchestrator: each agent claims work from the database and passes it on.

Ship

RAG search that drops weak matches instead of guessing, plus a research agent that chains tool calls to answer multi-step questions.

Repeat

Every confidence score traces back to a specific check, and unreachable sites never drop a record — later agents fill the gaps.

PythonFastAPIChromaDBPlaywrightOpenAIgithub.com/engasix/foi ↗
02

Baat-Bot — an Urdu voice agent

Real-time phone ordering for a perfume store
Plan

Let customers order by phone, in Urdu, by talking to an agent instead of a menu tree.

Build

Asterisk ARI for calls, Deepgram streaming speech-to-text, LangGraph + Claude for the conversation, and RAG for product search.

Ship

Google Cloud TTS replies with barge-in, so callers can interrupt like they would with a person.

Repeat

Open source, so anyone can build on it.

AsteriskDeepgramLangGraphClaudegithub.com/engasix/baat-bot ↗
03

AI in the product org

AI-driven development, AI support and custom agents at FastestVPN
Plan

Bring AI into how a VPN company builds products and supports customers, not just into a demo.

Build

Introduced AI-driven development practices, deployed an AI-based chat support system, and built custom agents for complex workflows.

Ship

AI now part of daily engineering and customer support.

Repeat

Driving agentic AI adoption across the rest of the engineering organisation.

AgentsRAGAI support
04

FastestVPN apps, rebuilt

iOS · macOS · Android — 5× adoption & in-app purchases
Plan

The iOS app was in a broken state, there was no macOS app, and the backends needed a modern home.

Build

Rebuilt the iOS app, built the macOS app from scratch, and led a redesign across iOS, macOS and Android.

Ship

Fivefold growth in both user engagement and in-app purchases after release.

Repeat

Moved backends to AWS and brought in Ansible so infrastructure could be rebuilt the same way every time.

SwiftObjective-CAWSAnsible
05

OpenVPN & WireGuard on Apple platforms

Protocol engineering with almost no documentation
Plan

Add new VPN protocols to the iOS and macOS apps. Very little help was available online.

Build

Learned Network Extensions, packet tunnel providers and NEVPNManager in depth, then integrated both protocols alone.

Ship

OpenVPN and WireGuard live in the FastestVPN iOS and macOS apps.

Repeat

Grew into owning protocol engineering for the whole product.

NetworkExtensionNEVPNManagerOpenVPNWireGuard
06

Bheesham — the VPN server watchdog

A bot that tests every server, every protocol, and reports on WhatsApp
Plan

Servers would quietly stop responding on some protocols, or connect without letting users browse.

Build

A vanilla JavaScript bot that checks every server across all protocols, confirms browsing works, and runs speed tests.

Ship

Instant WhatsApp alerts on failures, and speed-test history in a database to spot weak servers.

Repeat

Next step: move it onto AWS.

JavaScriptWhatsApp alertsMonitoring
05 / Track record

Why trust me with it.

Nineteen-plus years of shipping, from PHP and the iPhone SDK 3.1 to VPN protocols and agentic AI.

19+
Years shipping
Web → iOS/macOS → cloud → agentic AI
5×
User adoption & IAP
After the FastestVPN iOS, macOS & Android revamp
2
VPN protocols, solo
OpenVPN & WireGuard on iOS and macOS via Network Extensions
9+
Years remote for US teams
Including enterprise and US Navy projects
  • 2021 — nowAgentic-AI Solution ArchitectFastestVPN · US, remote
  • 2019 — 2021Team Lead, Mobile AppsInterSys
  • 2015 — 2019Senior iOS DeveloperCentric Source · US, remote
  • 2010 — 2015PHP / iOS DeveloperSalsoft Technologies
  • 2005 — 2009PHP DeveloperPure Designers
06 / Stack

Tools of the trade.

Native Apple platforms at the core, cloud underneath, agents on top.

Agentic AI

  • LangGraph
  • RAG
  • Anthropic API
  • Claude Code
  • MCP
  • OpenAI SDK
  • AI-driven development

Apple platforms

  • Swift
  • Objective-C
  • iOS
  • macOS
  • Xcode
  • Network Extensions
  • TestFlight

Backend & languages

  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • PHP
  • Java
  • MySQL

Cloud & infrastructure

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Ansible
  • OpenVPN
  • WireGuard
  • Linux (RHCE)

Voice & realtime

  • Asterisk ARI
  • Deepgram STT
  • Google Cloud TTS
  • Barge-in

Tools & delivery

  • Git
  • Postman
  • JIRA
  • Zeplin
  • Obsidian
08 / Contact

Have something AI
should be doing for you?

Tell me in a few lines what's slow, manual or broken in your business. I'll give you an honest view on whether AI is the right fix, and what it would take to build.

  1. 01
    You send a short message

    Or book a call directly. I reply within 24 hours.

  2. 02
    We talk for 30 minutes

    Free. We go through the problem and whether AI is the right answer.

  3. 03
    You get a clear proposal

    Scope, timeline and cost in writing, so you know exactly what you're getting.