SHEHRYAR RAZA
Projects

Four of these are in use right now. Keep scrolling and the screens move with you.

012023 — PresentLive

urpay

Moving real money, in Saudi Arabia

A wallet people in Saudi Arabia use to move money, pay bills and issue cards. I led the React Native build, including the transaction flows and the audit trail sitting behind every payment. Working on something where a bug costs someone real money changes how carefully you write.

  • 4.6 stars across more than 155,000 App Store reviews.
  • Still shipping. Version 5.35 went out in August 2026.
  • Sends money to over 140 countries through MoneyGram, Ria and Tahweel Al Rajhi.
  • Top-ups from bank cards, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or a transfer.
React NativeTypeScriptPaymentsApple PaySecure flows
urpay digital wallet
022023 — PresentLive

MakolaHub

Getting Ghanaian businesses online

Over 90% of Ghanaian businesses aren't online at all. MakolaHub gives them a storefront: products, services, job listings, RFQs, with escrow so neither side has to trust the other first. I'm the only engineer on it, across all four apps.

  • Live on iOS at 4.0.4 and on Google Play, still shipping through 2026.
  • Matchmaking runs on OpenAI embeddings over a Postgres vector store.
  • Pulled six separate repositories into one Nx workspace, which I should have done a year earlier.
  • Escrow through Paystack, secrets handled by KMS on App Engine.
React NativeExpoNext.js 15React 19NodeGraphQLHasuraPostgresFirebaseGoogle CloudOpenAINx
MakolaHub marketplace homepage
MakolaHub product listings
MakolaHub services directory
MakolaHub on mobile
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032021 — 2023Live

Votly

Still running, five years later

Polls settled on-chain. Shipped in 2021 and somehow still getting updates, which makes it the longest-lived thing I've touched.

  • On both stores at 4.3.0, last updated in 2026.
  • 4.2 stars, though only 31 people bothered to rate it.
  • Built with a distributed team across several years of releases.
React NativeTypeScriptBlockchainFirebase
Votly feed
Votly poll detail
Votly results
Votly profile
042024 — PresentLive

Hera

Running Amazon delivery fleets

Scheduling, coaching and compliance for the people who run Amazon delivery fleets. Built for operators who live in it all day, not managers who open it once a month.

  • Scheduling, coaching, compliance and performance in one place.
  • Priced per active driver, so it had to stay readable with a few hundred of them.
ReactTypeScriptNodeSchedulingReporting
Hera operations platform
Selected work

Client work going back to 2021. Some of these are old enough that no screenshots survived, so you get the app icon instead of a mockup I made up.

SecureHire interfaceLive

SecureHire

2023

Full-stack engineer

Background screening, with an app for candidates and a dashboard for employers. I wrote both ends of it.

React NativeNodeExpressMongoDB
Contango interfaceLive

Contango

2024

Contracted engineer

Contracted through Contango onto a UAE government programme. Enterprise pace, lots of stakeholders, useful lesson in patience.

ReactTypeScriptEnterprise
Fluyo interfaceLive

Fluyo

2020 — 2021

React Native developer

Language learning disguised as a game. Biomes, creatures, a dolphin that follows you around. I worked on the mobile client.

React NativeAnimationsGame UI
Central Pro Services interfaceLive

Central Pro Services

2021 — 2023

Frontend engineer

Scheduling and job management for a company that renovates apartments between tenants.

ReactTypeScriptNode
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Workout + Apple Music

2024

React Native & Swift

A workout app that drives Apple Music. The bridge didn't do what I needed, so I wrote the Swift module myself: catalog playlists, fetching songs from a playlist, and fixing a queue bug that had been there a while.

SwiftMusicKitReact NativeNative modules
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Duals

2020 — 2023

Lead engineer

Sports social app, client and server both. One of the biggest codebases I've lived in.

React NativeNodeFirebase
Bite app icon

Bite

2021 — 2022

Mobile engineer

Restaurant discovery with a social layer, built by a small team.

React NativeTypeScriptFirebase
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TokSave

2020 — 2022

Sole engineer

A tool for saving short-form video profiles. Just me on it, start to finish.

React NativeJavaScript
Legacy Memoirs app screen

Legacy Memoirs

2022 — 2023

Lead mobile engineer

An app for recording family stories before they're lost. I built the whole thing.

React NativeExpoFirebase
S

SMAPLR

2022 — 2025

Frontend engineer, React

A planning platform where every client got their own subdomain, their own database and their own theme, all from one codebase. The routing for that was mine.

ReactTypeScriptMulti-tenancySub-domain routing
E

Early Friday

2022

Frontend engineer, React

Same multi-tenant idea as SMAPLR. Separate databases, separate theming, one frontend underneath.

ReactJavaScriptMulti-tenancy
S

Seven Invites

2021 — 2022

Senior software engineer

Social invitations app. I built the component library the rest of the team worked on top of, plus the Stripe and Twilio pieces.

ReactTypeScriptStripeTwilioGCP Tasks
SrvHub & SrvHub Pro app icon

SrvHub & SrvHub Pro

2021

Mobile engineer

Two apps for home services, one for customers and one for the people doing the work, sharing a design system and a backend.

React NativeExpoFirebase
BensBoat English app icon

BensBoat English

2021 — 2022

Sole engineer

English learning for Thai schools. Mine from the first commit to release.

React NativeExpoFirebase Realtime DB
Pikkitt app icon

Pikkitt

2021

Sole engineer

Took an empty repo to a working build, then it stopped.

React NativeExpo