Remote-friendly companies, visa sponsors, OSS scholarships - things I wish I had a decade ago.
Remote work, visa sponsorship, OSS opportunities, and the things I wish someone had told me ten years ago.
Companies: Toptal, Gun.io, Arc.dev. You're competing globally, so your GitHub matters more than your resume.
Canada, UK, and Germany are engineer-friendly for visa sponsorship. Australia is harder. US requires an employer who wants to fight immigration.
GitHub Sponsors. Patreon. These are real income for maintainers in Pakistan. Build something useful.
Build in public. Write. Share your work. The Pakistan engineer tax on trust is real, but it compounds in reverse. Reputation is capital.
A walkthrough of the state machine, audio pipeline, and fallback design I use for Chasyr.
When RAG actually beats fine-tuning, when it doesn't, and how to tell which one you need.
The exact prompts and CI workflows my team runs on every PR. Copy-paste, MIT licensed.
The boilerplate I clone for every new SaaS bet. Auth, billing, RLS, AI hooks pre-wired.
How I restructured a 7-person team around AI tooling. Velocity numbers, cultural pitfalls, what worked.
A guest lecture at COMSATS on how mid-career engineers can move into architecture roles.
Panel at AusFinTech 2026 - the legal, technical, and ethical scaffolding for AI that talks to customers.
A handful of titles - short list, opinionated commentary, no affiliate nonsense.
My exact dev stack - IDE, terminal, AI agents, productivity hacks. Updated quarterly.
Papers, blog posts, and talks I send every engineer I mentor on getting up to speed with AI.