Anwer Rehman
Founder & Lead at Folkways
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
Summary
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Top SchoolAnwer Rehman is a founder and senior software engineer with 14+ years of experience building scalable, secure, high-performance applications across TypeScript, Node.js, Java, PHP, and Python. He blends hands-on engineering with a product-builder mindset, shipping everything from startup MVPs to enterprise-grade systems used by millions. Currently leading Folkways, he’s focused on real-time, event-driven infrastructure and is actively rewriting core services in Rust to gain memory safety, throughput, and low latency. Prior roles at Payoneer, EdAider, and Computan reflect deep full-stack experience and a track record of delivering reliable, maintainable products. Based in Islamabad, he combines indie-hacker independence with enterprise discipline, often tackling both architectural design and day-to-day implementation.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Sociology, Masters, Sociology at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
Urdu, English
Stackoverflow
155reputation
5kreached
4answers
5questions
Github Skills (26)
woocommerce10
ecommerce10
wordpress10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
gutenberg9
fastify7
nodejs7
filter6
gulp6
foreach6
gulp-clean-css6
gulp-sass6
forloop6
javascript6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
optile/checkout-web-sdk-code-demo
Aug 2024 - Sep 2025
Integration demo for Checkout Web
Contributions:11 reviews, 25 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year
AnwerAR/annoptions
Jan 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 72 commits, 42 PRs in 2 years 1 month
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