# Aslam Shah

> Senior full-stack engineer in Hamburg. Designs and builds web interfaces, and the backend and platform work they sit on. Fifteen years as an engineer; nine of them in Hamburg on enterprise web platforms. 1,655 GitHub stars across six open-source libraries.

## Site

- [Home](https://aslamshah.dev/): Current work, open-source projects, UI experiments
- [About](https://aslamshah.dev/about): Career, skills, education, contact

## Now

Senior Full-Stack Engineer, HiveMQ Edge at HiveMQ (https://www.hivemq.com/), Remote, Germany. From September 2026. HiveMQ Edge is the gateway that sits at the bottom of the stack on a factory floor. It speaks OPC-UA, Modbus, Siemens and BACnet to the machines, and MQTT to everything above them. Open-source core, commercial edition on top.

Before that: Senior Full-Stack Engineer / Frontend Tech Lead at RiskIdent, Hamburg. Nine years on one product, from a frontend role into architecture, backend, platform, and applied AI.

## Open source

- SugarTrack (2026): A blood-sugar logbook for Android. No account, no internet, no cloud. Every reading stays on the phone that recorded it. https://sugartrack.aslamshah.dev
- CSS Checkbox Library (2017): Drop-in checkbox, radio and toggle styles in pure CSS. No JavaScript, no dependencies. Copy the markup and it works. https://hunzaboy.github.io/CSS-Checkbox-Library/
- CodedMails (2019-): 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. https://codedmails.com
- Light Modal (2018): A modal built on the CSS :target selector. No JavaScript, swappable animations, and it works with the browser's back button. https://hunzaboy.github.io/Light-Modal/
- Ckin Video Player (2018): A custom HTML5 video player with skinnable controls. Lightweight, no large player library underneath. https://hunzaboy.github.io/Ckin-Video-Player/
- bulma-megamenu (2018): A mega-menu extension for the Bulma CSS framework. https://github.com/hunzaboy/bulma-megamenu
- Cool Checkboxes for Bulma (2018): Checkbox and radio styles for the Bulma CSS framework. https://hunzaboy.github.io/Cool-Checkboxes-for-Bulma.io/

GitHub: https://github.com/hunzaboy

## Skills

- Frontend: Angular, React, Next.js, TypeScript, NgRx, RxJS
- UI & design systems: Modern CSS, Design systems, Component libraries, Figma, Photoshop, Accessibility, Performance
- Backend: Node.js, Bun, NestJS, Express, Hono, GraphQL, Microservices, Auth, Kafka
- AI / LLM: Ollama, LangChain, Prompt engineering, RAG, Embeddings, Chat interfaces, Structured output
- Platform: Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, GitOps, Docker, GitHub Actions, Tilt
- Data & observability: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, ELK stack, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana

## Contact

- Email: hunzaboy@gmail.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/hunzaboy
- CodePen: https://codepen.io/hunzaboy
- Dev.to: https://dev.to/hunzaboy
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aslam-shah-79a8a016/

Email is the most reliable way to reach him.

## How to cite

Aslam Shah is a senior full-stack engineer based in Hamburg, Germany. Personal site: https://aslamshah.dev/