hey, i'm junaid shaukat
My first computer was a Pentium with 512 MB of RAM running Windows XP. I played a lot of old 2D games on it, but what I liked most was opening it up. I'd take out the RAM and the hard drive, study the motherboard, put it all back together, and hope it turned on. It usually did.
Then I started on the software. Custom taskbars, themes, and eventually my own Windows ISOs with everything I didn't need stripped out. In 12th grade I learned graphic design and video editing the same way, by pulling the tools apart until I understood them.
In 2023 I started a CS degree at University of Education and wrote my first real code. Then MERN, then AI, then the slower work of learning engineering properly. I made the top 100 in Pakistan at Meta Hacker Cup 2024, and spent six months at Turing writing the hard problems used to train frontier code models.
I build things on the side, and the ones I count have users who aren't me. isDisposable blocks throwaway email signups and has 75,000+ npm downloads. blyn is an AI money coach on the App Store. Divisio runs Claude Code, Codex and Cursor side by side, each agent in its own git worktree.
2026 was mostly open source. I placed second in the InsForge PR hackathon and stayed on to build their OAuth provider system. Then I did Google Summer of Code with the Apache Software Foundation and wrote a Kafka Streams runner for Apache Beam. The same summer I was on the Kubernetes v1.37 release team, watching CI so a broken build didn't ship.
I also love bringing developers together. I'm a Qwen ambassador and started Qwen Pakistan from scratch. I hosted Pakistan's first RevenueCat Shipaton and I'm the campus leader for Replit at my university. Before that I led the Notion campus club for a year. At Dev Weekends I run internal operations. I make videos for developers on YouTube too.
I design for fun, mostly product UI. I study how Stripe and the best startups build their interfaces, then redraw things to see if I can make them better. This site is one of them.
These days I'm in my final year of CS, working on AI, dev tools, and the people who use them. If you're building in that space, say hi.
- ReplitCampus Leader2026
- QwenAmbassador, founded Qwen Pakistan2026
- Apache BeamGoogle Summer of Code contributor2026
- KubernetesRelease Signal Shadow, v1.372026
- InsForgeOpen source contributor2026
- TuringAI Reasoning Engineer2025
- Dev WeekendsInternal operations2024 – Present
- University of EducationBS Computer Science2023 – 2027
Community
Some of the rooms I've filled, and what came out of them.
- Qwen AmbassadorStarted Qwen Pakistan from scratch. 3,000+ followers and 250K+ impressions in the first week, then the AI Buildathon 2026.
- Host, RevenueCat Shipaton IRLThe first in-person Shipaton in Pakistan. 43 signed up.
- Replit Campus LeaderBefore that, Notion Campus Leader for a year.
- Dev WeekendsInternal operations, fellowships, mentorship, and a weekly cohort of 40 engineers.
Things I built
- blyniOS appApp Store An AI money coach that runs on your phone instead of someone else's server. It reads your spending, holds category limits, and tells you what is left. The data never leaves the device.Live on the App Store
- DivisiomacOS appDownload Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Grok in one window. Each agent gets its own git worktree, and nothing lands until you read the diff.Open source, MIT
- isDisposableAPI and SDKsWebsite Throwaway email detection. 160,000 known domains, live DNS checks, and a risk score. There is an API, plus offline packages for npm and PyPI when you can't make a network call.75,000+ npm downloads
- reqcraftnpm packageGitHub A 3 kB HTTP client on native fetch with the axios API. Interceptors, retries, typed errors, no dependencies. I wrote it the week of the axios supply chain attack.Zero dependencies
Open source
89 merged pull requests to projects I don't own, counted live from GitHub. Open a row to see the latest ones.
Writing
I write when I work out something I wish someone had told me a month earlier. Mostly LLM tooling, agents, and what the work feels like from the inside.
Find me online on LinkedIn X YouTube GitHub or send me an email.
