Self-taught engineer. Production systems. 15 years.
15 years turning unfamiliar technology into production systems that hold up.
I help teams move money and data between the systems their business depends on, then keep those integrations, SaaS platforms, and operational workflows from failing silently.
- 15+
- years shipping production software
- 50+
- projects delivered across domains
- 9+
- integration and money-flow builds
- 270K+
- Laravel OSS package downloads
Proof in public
Public work, community, and values behind the engineering.
Speaking, open-source maintenance, and visible values are part of the same operating standard: learn deeply, ship carefully, and stand behind the work in public.
Laravel Live Pakistan 2024
@Pearl Continental Lahore, Pakistan
DEVOPS Meetup Lahore
(Open Source Foundation Pakistan) @FAST-NUCES, Lahore
Presenting Pulse Guzzle Recorder
@Laravel Live Pakistan 2024, Pakistan
Laravel Live Pakistan 2024
@Pearl Continental Lahore, Pakistan
Laravel Live Pakistan 2024
@Pearl Continental Lahore, Pakistan
COMPUTAN Team Annual Meetup
@Lahore HeadOffice, Pakistan
Laravel Live Pakistan 2024
@Pearl Continental Lahore, Pakistan
Presenting Telescope Guzzle Watcher
@Laravel Live Pakistan 2024, Pakistan
Laravel Live Pakistan 2024
@Pearl Continental Lahore, Pakistan
COMPUTAN Annual Team Leads Dinner
@Monal Lahore, Pakistan
Expertise & Stacks
The languages, frameworks, and platforms I work with day to day.
Services
From full product builds to platform integrations and reliable infrastructure.
SaaS Product Development
Complete SaaS products: marketplaces, Stripe Connect payments, multi-tenant platforms, and rescuing fragile builds.
Learn moreDevOps
CI/CD, Docker, Linux, and cloud (AWS, GCP) to ship and scale with confidence.
Learn moreAPI & Integrations
HubSpot, Salesforce, SAP, Stripe, and custom REST/GraphQL/SOAP integrations.
Learn moreWhy work with me
Here's what you can count on when we work together.
- 15+
- Years shipping Laravel & PHP
- 50+
- Projects delivered
- 300K+
- Open-source downloads
- 5
- Countries delivered for
I'm Huzaifa Saif-ur-Rehman, a software engineer from Pakistan 🇵🇰 who turns complex ideas into dependable, production-ready software. For more than 15 years I've helped teams across USA, Dubai, France, Australia, and Canada ship Laravel and PHP applications that scale, integrate cleanly, and keep running long after launch.
Across around 50 projects I've built CRMs, MIS and executive information systems, accounting and POS platforms, web apps, and API and data integrations. That breadth means I've seen how these systems fail and how they hold up, so I design for the long run, not just the demo.
My work is backed by real-world depth, not buzzwords. I'm a Laracasts Certified Laravel Architect and an OpenJS-certified Node.js Application Developer (JSNAD and LFW211), earned through a LiFT Scholarship from The Linux Foundation in San Francisco, and a Laravel Live Pakistan speaker. I've spent years deep in PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, and Linux, with hands-on cloud experience across AWS, Google Cloud, and Docker.
Where I add the most value is integrations. I've connected platforms like Stripe, PayPal, HubSpot, Salesforce, NetSuite, and the full SAP suite, Business One and Business ByDesign, using REST, GraphQL, and SOAP, making systems that were never meant to talk to each other work as one.
I build with AI in the loop, not as a gimmick. I lean on tools like Claude and Codex to move faster without cutting corners, and I design and run my own autonomous agent workflows — multi-agent systems that handle real work across email, messaging, and scheduled tasks. It keeps my delivery sharp and my engineering current.
I also believe great engineering should be shared. I maintain open-source packages for the Laravel ecosystem, including Laravel Telescope Guzzle Watcher and Pulse Guzzle Recorder, now past 300K downloads, that extend first-party tools like Telescope and Pulse. If you're planning something ambitious, I'd love to help you build it.
Open Source Projects
Laravel Telescope Guzzle Watcher
Telescope Guzzle Watcher provide a custom watcher for intercepting http requests made via guzzlehttp/guzzle php library. The package uses the on_stats request option for extracting the request/response data. The watcher intercept and log the request into the Laravel Telescope HTTP Client Watcher.
Open Source contributions
Merged pull requests into the libraries the Laravel and integration ecosystem depends on.
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#3286
spatie/laravel-medialibrary
feat: add support for * (ANY) media collection -
#186
HubSpot/hubspot-api-php
feat: add bool type support -
#123
HubSpot/hubspot-api-php
feat: add values for IN & NOT_IN operator support -
#364
HubSpot/hubspot-php
refactor(resource): rename createBatch parameters -
#57
romanzipp/Laravel-Queue-Monitor
fix: add named route, update view and controllers
Featured work
A selection of recent projects across full-stack, DevOps, and integrations.
Marketplace SaaS Platform With Stripe Connect
This is a multi-sided marketplace SaaS that connects service providers with the clients who hire them, and han...
Best Price Market Ecommerce Marketplace
Best Price Market is a full ecommerce marketplace built on Laravel, where the catalog, the checkout, and the m...
GZPCHS Housing Society Management System
Built a comprehensive property management system for Gulshan-e-Zeal Pak Cooperative Housing Society covering p...
GEL Virtual Mailbox & Logistics Platform
Global Express Limited is a Caribbean freight-forwarding and virtual mailbox business. Customers across Barbad...
HubSpot & Oracle NetSuite Bidirectional Sync
Built a Laravel integration synchronizing HubSpot contacts and companies with Oracle NetSuite customers, while...
HubSpot & SAP Business One Integration
Built a Laravel integration moving customer, contact, and order data from HubSpot into SAP Business One with c...
Blog Posts
Your Model Vendor Is a Geopolitical Risk
Agent Evaluation: Why Tool Traces and Verification Matter
Observability for AI Agents: Why Your Traces Need to Become an API
judging at nasa space apps challenge in hyderabad
pakistan software export board (pseb): a practical guide for pakistan’s tech community
dijkstra vs the new deterministic sssp algorithm: easy guide, php examples, and visuals
hacked the laravel artisan route command to enforce route naming conventions
laravel utm tracking: built-in simplicity beats third-party complexity
Positive feedback received from clients around the world.
“Huzaifa Saifur Rahman is an excellent software engineer with nearly 15 years of versatile experience. Apart from what was initially committed for the project, Huzaifa provided many additional services and helped resolve a lot of problems, for which I am thankful. And certainly, we will continue working together in the future.”
VPS Maintenance clientDevOps Engineer for ongoing VPS maintenance, via Upwork
“I highly recommend him for his expertise and dedication, Huzaifa configured our VPS (Firewall, SSH, DNS, MX, SMTP, PHP, MySQL, Composer, Supervisor) and efficiently migrated our eCommerce store. He also managed the migration of our data, including thousands of blog posts and associated static assets.”
VPS Setup clientDevOps Engineer for VPS setup, via Upwork
“After migrating my store to Laravel Nova, its SEO ranking dropped from the first page to the fifth. The previous developer had provided an unlicensed store with numerous bugs and poor technical SEO practices. Huzaifa took over the project, promptly migrating the store from Laravel Nova to a fully customized, on-demand solution, which helped us regain our position on Google.”
Laravel/Vue e-commerce clientPHP, Laravel, and Vue3 e-commerce project, via Upwork
“It was nice working with Huzaifa. He understood the assignment, and solved it quickly. I had some further requests which he met. So all in all, I can totally recommend working with Huzaifa.”
Laravel development clientExperienced Laravel developer project, via Upwork
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