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7CODE

A founder-led studio for building and growing online.

7CODE is a digital agency based in Lahore, Pakistan. We design and build websites, web applications, mobile apps and online stores, then help them grow through search, content and paid campaigns.

We work remotely with clients across the UAE, Oman, the United Kingdom and beyond. Our projects so far include a live-events marketplace, a UK pool and spa retailer, crane and logistics companies in Abu Dhabi and an apparel manufacturer in Faisalabad.

Founder's full-stack experience
6+ years
Projects shipped, including design
25
Upwork standing
100%
Job Success Score, Top Rated Plus

The founder

Muhammad Bilal Iftikhar

Founder and senior full-stack software engineer

Experience
6+ years in production web apps
Based in
Lahore, GMT+5, working remotely worldwide
Upwork
Top Rated Plus, 100% Job Success
Education
BS Information Technology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad
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Bilal has spent 6+ years building production web applications, mostly with Laravel on the back end and React, Vue or Next.js on the front. He is used to owning a project end to end: designing the database and APIs, then building the interface on top of them.

He prefers working straight from founders and designers rather than a fully specified ticket, which is how most of 7CODE's client work runs. He is Top Rated Plus on Upwork with a 100% Job Success Score.

Before founding 7CODE he spent four years as a senior engineer at Algolix Technologies building client SaaS products, and since 2025 he has been the full-stack developer on AV Leads, a live-events marketplace, where he designed the booking and matching system and the APIs behind it. Along the way he has worked on a UK eCommerce store, an enterprise XR platform used by 3,000+ organisations, and logistics and heavy-equipment sites in the UAE.

What he's known for

  • End-to-end ownership

    Database, APIs and interface designed together, so the pieces fit and nothing is lost between teams.

  • Speed you can measure

    Query and index tuning on the back end, SSR, SSG and code-splitting on the front.

  • Payments and logins that hold up

    OAuth and payment gateways wired in with the webhook and failure cases handled, not just the happy path.

  • Founder-friendly

    Comfortable turning a conversation or a rough spec into a shipped release without a long backlog.

Skills and tools

Languages
PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, SQL, HTML and CSS
Frontend
Next.js (SSR, SSG, ISR), React, Vue.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, responsive Figma-to-code builds
Backend
PHP, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Node.js (Next.js API routes and server runtime)
Databases
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Supabase (Postgres); Eloquent, Sequelize and Mongoose ORMs; schema design, indexing, query optimisation and migrations
APIs & integrations
REST API design, OAuth login, payment gateways and webhooks, Shopify (Liquid and headless storefronts)
Cloud & hosting
AWS, Railway, Vercel, Netlify, Supabase Storage
Delivery
Git and GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, staging and production environments
Ways of working
Cross-functional delivery with product, design and QA in distributed, remote teams

Experience

His two most recent roles, shipping production software for founders and product teams.

Sep 2025 – present · Remote

Full-Stack Developer

Vocuit, contracted to AV Leads

  • Builds and maintains the AV Leads platform on a Next.js front end and Laravel back end, working directly with the founders and design team on new features.
  • Designed the booking and matching data model in MySQL and PostgreSQL and built the REST APIs behind it, with validation and indexing to keep it fast as usage grew.
  • Takes releases from a rough product spec to a shipped, responsive interface, usually a few times a month, straight from conversations with the founders.
  • Rebuilt several of the highest-traffic pages with SSR, SSG and code-splitting, which brought load times down noticeably.

Jun 2021 – Aug 2025 · Pakistan

Senior Software Engineer

Algolix Technologies

  • Four years building Laravel back ends with matching Vue, React and Next.js front ends for a range of client SaaS products.
  • Worked through the slowest MySQL queries across the company's services and reworked indexing and query structure, cutting response times on the heaviest pages.
  • Integrated OAuth login and payment gateway APIs into several client applications, including the auth and webhook edge cases that real payment flows bring.
  • Worked closely with product and UX/UI to turn requirements into interfaces, and was usually the one who caught inconsistencies before they shipped.

Selected projects he has worked on

How we got here

  1. 2017 – 2021

    Bachelor's in Information Technology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad

    System analysis, software architecture and database design.

  2. 2021 – 2025

    Senior Software Engineer, Algolix Technologies

    Four years building Laravel back ends with Vue, React and Next.js front ends for client SaaS products, including query optimisation, OAuth and payment integrations.

  3. 2025 – now

    Full-Stack Developer on AV Leads (via Vocuit)

    Building and maintaining a live-events marketplace on Next.js and Laravel, working directly with its founders.

  4. Now

    Founder, 7CODE

    Bringing development, design and growth marketing together for clients in the UAE, Oman, the UK and Pakistan.

How the team works

We bring in the right specialists for each project instead of keeping a large fixed team you'd be paying for.

Founder-led direction

Architecture, code review and the final say on quality sit with the founder on every project.

Distributed specialists

Designers, developers, SEO and marketing specialists across Pakistan, matched to what your project needs.

Remote by design

Shared task boards, staging links and WhatsApp updates in your working hours, wherever you are.

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