/ ABOUT — KASHIF ANJUM
Top Rated Plus
full-stack developer.
Kashif Anjum is a full-stack developer based in Karachi, Pakistan, building Shopify stores, SaaS products, and AI-powered web applications end-to-end for founders and growing teams. Top Rated Plus on Upwork with a 100% job-success score.
Kashif Anjum is a Top Rated Plus full-stack developer with eight years of production experience shipping Shopify stores, SaaS products, and AI-powered web applications. He works end-to-end — Figma design through production rollout — and is the only engineer on most engagements.
Lifetime metrics on Upwork as of 2026: $277K+ earned, 10,000+ hours billed, 242+ projects delivered to production, 100% job-success score, 5.0 average rating across 242 verified reviews.
Founders who need a senior engineer to ship the spine of their product without a hand-holding chain. Operators of growing Shopify stores who need custom theme work, Plus migrations, or bespoke apps. CTOs and product leads who need a SaaS MVP or a production-grade AI feature shipped on a real timeline.
Typical engagement is one engineer (me), one product owner, fixed-price or hourly, with daily commits and weekly Loom demos. No middle layer — you talk to the person building the product.
Shopify, SaaS, AI — end to end.
Three primary categories:
- Shopify stores — custom themes, Liquid, Shopify Plus, custom apps, Hydrogen headless storefronts, third-party API integrations, subscriptions, loyalty, ERP sync. 3 live Shopify projects in selected work.
- SaaS products — Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node, Postgres with Prisma, Stripe billing, Twilio voice/SMS, Nylas email/calendar, AWS S3, multi-tenant data, dashboards. 2 multi-tool SaaS workspaces in selected work.
- AI web applications — LLM-powered tools, OpenAI APIs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI agents, prompt design, eval rubrics, streaming infrastructure that holds up in production.
Plus marketing sites on Webflow and WordPress when a content site is what's actually needed.
- Shopify theme development
- Shopify Plus
- Shopify Liquid
- Shopify Hydrogen
- Shopify app development
- Shopify API integrations
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Prisma
- Stripe integration
- Twilio integration
- Nylas integration
- OpenAI API
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- AI agents
- AI evals
- WordPress custom themes
- Webflow
- Gatsby
- Core Web Vitals optimization
- Conversion rate optimization
- Collaborate — 45-minute discovery call, written brief, audit notes.
- Design — Figma wireframes and hi-fi mockups before any code is written.
- Approve — signed SOW with milestones, fixed-price or hourly.
- Build — daily commits, weekly Loom demos, staging URL from day one.
- Test — real-device QA, Lighthouse and CWV pass, A11y audit, AI evals where applicable.
- Launch — production cutover, runbook, two-week post-launch support.
- 2018 — started custom WordPress development. Began the KonstantKreative engagement that is still running 8+ years later.
- 2022 — designed and built the PAININJURYLAW WordPress marketing site and shipped Gatsby work for LottoSocial.
- 2023 — shipped the DavidVon Shopify storefront with personalized products + multi-vendor SaaS, the Recovapro × Apple Fitness+ coupon API, and started the PAININJURYLAW Next.js SaaS that is still in active development.
- 2024 — shipped the Dot Vitamin custom Shopify storefront.
- 2026 — open to new engagements. Currently building Shopify, SaaS, and AI products on the same end-to-end model.
Based in Karachi, Pakistan (Pakistan Standard Time, UTC+5). Works remotely with clients globally and overlaps comfortably with US, EU, and Middle East working hours. Languages: English, Urdu.
- Upwork — www.upwork.com/freelancers/developer
- LinkedIn — www.linkedin.com/in/kashif-anjum-39616533/
- GitHub — github.com/kashifdesigns