Aslam Shah

Senior full-stack engineer Hamburg est. 2011

I design and build web interfaces, and the backend and platform work they need.

Fifteen years as an engineer, nine of them in Hamburg on enterprise web platforms. Six open-source libraries, 1,655 stars between them.

01Now

HiveMQ Edge

From September 2026. Industrial data, from the factory floor up. Before that, nine years in Hamburg on one product: frontend, then architecture, backend and platform.

The rest of the years

02Projects

Open-source projects

Open-source libraries and a product of my own. The libraries still get forked.

  1. 01

    SugarTrack

    A blood-sugar logbook for Android. No account, no internet, no cloud. Every reading stays on the phone that recorded it.

    • React Native
    • Expo
    • TypeScript
    • SQLite
    2026

    product

    DownloadCode
  2. 02

    CSS Checkbox Library

    Drop-in checkbox, radio and toggle styles in pure CSS. No JavaScript, no dependencies. Copy the markup and it works.

    • CSS
    • HTML
    • SCSS
    2017

    library674

    DemoCode
  3. 03

    CodedMails

    A tool for building responsive HTML email with MJML, so you stop hand-writing table layouts. The free template library is on GitHub; the full set became a product.

    • MJML
    • HTML
    • CSS
    • Email
    2019-

    library433

    codedmails.comCode
  4. 04

    Light Modal

    A modal built on the CSS :target selector. No JavaScript, swappable animations, and it works with the browser's back button.

    • CSS
    • HTML
    2018

    library244

    DemoCode
  5. 05

    Ckin Video Player

    A custom HTML5 video player with skinnable controls. Lightweight, no large player library underneath.

    • JavaScript
    • CSS
    • HTML5 Video
    2018

    library103

    DemoCode
  6. 06

    bulma-megamenu

    A mega-menu extension for the Bulma CSS framework.

    • SCSS
    • Bulma
    2018

    library135

    Code
  7. 07

    Cool Checkboxes for Bulma

    Checkbox and radio styles for the Bulma CSS framework.

    • SCSS
    • Bulma
    2018

    library66

    DemoCode

Everything on GitHub

03Pens

UI experiments

CSS and layout sketches on CodePen. A couple of them have been opened tens of thousands of times. Not products, just things I wanted to see in a browser.

  1. 01

    CSS Timeline Multi

    A multi-track timeline in CSS. Dates on one side, events on the other, with a bit of motion on the markers.

    • CSS
    • HTML
    2019

    pen

    Pen
  2. 02

    CSS Timeline

    A single-column CSS timeline. Same idea as the multi-track one, stripped back.

    • CSS
    • HTML
    2019

    pen

    Pen
  3. 03

    Checkout page

    A checkout layout: payment methods, card fields, order summary. HTML and CSS, no framework.

    • CSS
    • HTML
    2018

    pen

    Pen
  4. 04

    Flex Image Gallery

    An image gallery in flexbox. Hover stretches the active image and shrinks the rest.

    • CSS
    • HTML
    2018

    pen

    Pen

Everything on CodePen

04Who

A frontend developer in love with the design

That’s been my GitHub bio for years. I write backends and run platforms too, mostly so the interface on top can actually be good. Nine years of that in Hamburg, on software used for real money decisions.

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