Skip to content
FRFaizan Raza
Engineer · Dubai, UAE
2021—present

FaizanRaza

I build systems that have to stay up — EV charging networks, parking operations, and the apps people use to touch them.

Shipping
5 years
Based
Dubai, UAE
Focus
Real-time systems
Livecentral-system

About

I have spent five years on software that talks to hardware in the field: charge points, barriers, occupancy sensors, payment terminals. That work sets the standard I hold everything to — a dashboard is only as good as the state it reports, and the state has to be right.

Day to day I lead a team at Devways in Dubai, working across Django on the backend and React and React Native on the front. Outside of it I ship my own products end to end, which is where I get to make every architectural call myself and live with the consequences.

Selected work
10 projects

Things I have built

Four products I own end to end, and six systems built for operators running charging networks and parking sites. Every one opens into how it was actually put together.

Products

Mine — every architectural decision and its consequences.

Read the case study
AI product · four codebasesLive

Resumy AI

Tailors a resume to a specific job post, tracks every application afterwards, and answers questions about your own profile. Django and Channels on the back, Expo and React on the front.

Backend
Django · DRF · Channels · Celery · PostgreSQL · Redis
Mobile
Expo · React Native · Uniwind
Dashboard
React 19 · Vite · Tailwind 4 · Zustand · Recharts
  • Django
  • DRF
  • Channels
  • Celery
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • +7
Case study
Read the case study
Local-first mobile appLive

Locent

A personal expense ledger that has no server. Everything lives on the device; backups are encrypted on the phone and pushed to a private folder in the owner's Google Drive.

Runtime
Expo · React Native · Hermes
Data
expo-sqlite · Drizzle ORM · generated migrations
Crypto
AES-256-GCM · @noble/ciphers · @noble/hashes
  • Expo
  • React Native
  • TypeScript
  • SQLite
  • Drizzle ORM
  • Uniwind
  • +3
Case study
Read the case study
Open source · reference catalogOpen source

React Design Patterns

An interactive catalog of 57 React patterns. Every pattern is a component that actually runs, with the source that renders it shown directly underneath.

Scale
57 patterns · 8 categories
Framework
React 19 with the React Compiler enabled
Build
Vite 8 · TypeScript · custom highlight plugin
  • React 19
  • React Compiler
  • Vite 8
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind 4
  • React Router
  • +1
Read the case study
EV charging protocol serverOpen source

OCPP Central System

A central system server speaking OCPP to EV chargers — managing connected charge points, storing their configuration, and handling the protocol exchange over WebSocket.

Protocol
OCPP over WebSocket
Server
Python · Django
Handles
BootNotification · configuration get/change
  • Python
  • Django
  • OCPP
  • WebSockets
  • PostgreSQL
Case study

Client work

Built at Devways Digital Solutions for EV charging and parking operators.

Read the case study
EV charging · operator platformIn production

Charge Point Management System

The platform operators use to run a charging network. I designed its plugin-based frontend so that modules can be developed, built and shipped independently of the host application.

Architecture
Plugin host, independently built modules
My role
Frontend architecture and delivery
Core
React · Webpack · Babel
  • React
  • Webpack
  • Babel
  • webpack-dev-middleware
  • webpack-hot-middleware
Case study
Read the case study
Smart parking · real-time monitoringIn production

Parking Guidance System

Real-time occupancy across a parking site, drawn on an interactive map and backed by a live video wall. Sensor state and CCTV in one view, with analytics on top.

Transport
WebSockets — pushed state, not polled
Surfaces
Interactive map · video wall · analytics
Sector
Smart parking
  • React
  • WebSockets
  • Django
  • CCTV streams
  • Charts
Case study
Read the case study
Smart parking · device controlIn production

Smart Parking Operations

The operations console: monitor occupancy, raise alerts from parking machines, and control field devices like barriers in real time — behind role-based access.

Capability
Live monitoring · device control · alerting
Access
Role-based permissions over views and actions
Sector
Smart parking
  • React
  • WebSockets
  • Django
  • RBAC
Case study
Read the case study
Smart parking · membershipsIn production

E-membership Dashboard

Where operators manage site memberships and user contracts — cardholder registration, renewals and cancellations, handled in one place.

Domain
Memberships, contracts, cardholder lifecycle
Core
React · Django · PostgreSQL
Sector
Smart parking
  • React
  • Django
  • PostgreSQL
Case study
Read the case study
Payments · mobile webIn production

Express Ticket Checkout

A mobile-friendly checkout for paying a parking ticket. The interface renders from backend configuration, so one application serves clients with different requirements.

Pattern
Server-driven UI from backend configuration
Payments
Multiple gateways, selected per client
Sector
Parking payments
  • React
  • Django
  • Payment gateways
  • Responsive web
Case study
Read the case study
EV charging · consumer appIn production

EV Charging Mobile App

The driver-facing side of the charging network: find a charger, start a session, watch it progress in real time, and top up an in-app wallet to pay for it.

Platforms
iOS and Android from one React Native codebase
Real time
Live session progress from the operator layer
Sector
EV charging
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • React Navigation
  • WebSockets
  • Payment gateways
Case study
Capabilities
Backend · Frontend · Mobile

What I work in

I am most useful on the seam between them — where a device reports something, a server has to believe it, and three different clients have to show it.

Backend

11

Where the state lives. Django from the schema up — API design, background work, and the real-time layer that pushes device state to everything else.

  • Python
  • Django
  • Django REST Framework
  • PostgreSQL
  • Channels
  • Celery
  • Redis
  • WebSockets
  • Gunicorn
  • Docker
  • nginx

Frontend

13

Operator consoles and dashboards, mostly. Dense interfaces that have to stay readable while values change underneath them.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • React Router
  • Redux Toolkit
  • Zustand
  • React Hook Form
  • Recharts
  • ApexCharts
  • Material UI
  • Vite
  • Webpack

Mobile

9

Cross-platform apps for the people at the other end of the hardware — drivers, cardholders, and my own products' users.

  • React Native
  • Expo
  • TypeScript
  • React Navigation
  • Expo Router
  • SQLite
  • Drizzle ORM
  • EAS
  • RevenueCat
Commissioning log
2021 — present

Where I have worked

  1. 2024

    Team Lead & Senior Software Engineer

    Current

    Devways Digital Solutions · Dubai, UAE

    Leading delivery across the EV charging and smart parking product lines, from backend architecture through to the operator dashboards and customer-facing apps.

    • Set the frontend architecture for the charge point management system, including the plugin model that lets operator-specific modules ship independently
    • Own technical direction and code review across the team
    • Take products from requirements through architecture, delivery and production support
  2. 2022

    Software Developer

    20222024

    Devways Digital Solutions · Dubai, UAE

    Built real-time operations software for parking sites and EV charging networks — occupancy monitoring, device control, memberships and payments.

    • Built the real-time layer behind occupancy monitoring and device control using WebSockets
    • Delivered the parking guidance system, e-membership dashboard and express ticket checkout
    • Shipped the EV mobile app in React Native, including the in-app wallet
  3. 2021

    Web Developer

    20212022

    Goflare Digital Solutions · Jhelum, Pakistan

    First professional role. Built and shipped client web applications, and learned the full delivery cycle from requirements to production.

    • Built client web applications across the stack
    • Worked directly with clients on requirements and revisions
Contact

Start a conversation

Hiring, contracting, or you have a system that needs to stop falling over. Tell me what you are building and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.