Proven Trajectory

Crafting Digital Foundations.

Aasif Ashraf's professional experience as a Full-Stack Developer at Chinar Quantum AI — building production apps with Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma, MongoDB, and NeonDB.

Professional Timeline

A chronological record of technical milestones and architectural implementations.

April 2024 - Present

Software Developer

Chinar Quantum AI (CQAI)

Developing and maintaining production applications using Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma, MongoDB/Neon, and MERN architecture.
Implementing secure authentication, role-based access, and data-driven dashboards.
Creating full-stack features with API routes, server components, and optimized queries.
Collaborating with backend and design teams for continuous product improvement.

2016 - 2020Computer Science

B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering

Punjab Technical University

Punjab, India

Four-year undergraduate programme focused on software engineering fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and database management. Built a strong foundation that directly underpins my approach to full-stack architecture today.

Graduated with a focus on Software Engineering & Web Technologies
Final-year project: Built a full-stack web application using core HTML, CSS, JavaScript & PHP
Studied Data Structures, Algorithms, OS, DBMS, Computer Networks
Strong foundation in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles

Technical Arsenal

Skills & Competencies

The stack by architectural layer, each tied to the production work where I've used it.

Frontend

React.js
Next.js
TypeScript
JavaScript
HTML
CSS

Used in

The CQAI website and admin dashboard and the ERP client portal on the Next.js App Router, plus the React front end of the Employee Management System.

Backend

Node.js
Express.js

Used in

40+ Express REST endpoints for the Employee Management System, and create-express-kickstart, an npm CLI that scaffolds production Express APIs.

Database

MongoDB
Neon (PostgreSQL)
Prisma

Used in

10+ Prisma domain models on Neon PostgreSQL with transactional application flows for CQAI, and MongoDB for the Employee Management System.

Architecture

REST APIs
Server Components
Authentication
Authorization
CRUD

Used in

Role-based access across three user roles, and Server Actions with Zod validation and revalidatePath / revalidateTag cache invalidation.

Problem SolvingTeam CollaborationOwnershipDebuggingAdaptabilityContinuous Learning

Open Source

Open-Source Work

Code is meant to be shipped. Published, MIT-licensed work available on GitHub and the npm registry.

Published Package

npm

create-express-kickstart on the public npm registry

License

MIT

Open-source under the permissive MIT license

Focus

Full-Stack

TypeScript, Node.js, and the Next.js ecosystem

Tooling

CLI + Tests

Interactive scaffolding with Jest + Supertest coverage

create-express-kickstart

Interactive CLI that scaffolds production-ready Express.js API starters.

MITnpm ↗GitHub ↗