Shajeel Afzal
Founder at UpAlerts
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolShajeel Afzal is a founder and full-time freelance software engineer with 11 years of experience building mobile apps, backend services, and AI-powered chatbots for clients including Fortune 500 companies. He spearheaded UpAlerts, growing it to 20,000+ active users in under six months by integrating real-time Upwork notifications across mobile, web, Chrome extension and WhatsApp. Google-certified in Android and chatbot development, he blends native Android and Flutter expertise with Node.js backends, Firebase, and Dialogflow CX/ES for production-ready conversational systems. Beyond product engineering, he runs LWS Academy to train freelancers and creates technical content on YouTube, showing a strong focus on community building and skills transfer. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, he also applies prompt engineering and serverless tooling (Cloud Run/Functions) to scale AI features. Based in Dubai, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a track record of turning complex project requirements into user-facing, monetizable products.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
FSc (Pre Engineering) Mathematics Physics Chemistry, FSc (Pre Engineering) Mathematics Physics Chemistry at Govt. College OkaraMatriculation Science, Matriculation Science at Govt. Islamia High School, Okara CityBS Software Engineering Computer Software Engineering, BS Software Engineering Computer Software Engineering at Government College University, Faisalabad
English, Urdu, Punjabi
Stackoverflow
5,933reputation
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72answers
54questions
android
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kotlin
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java
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firebase-realtime-database
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android-fragments
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android-viewpager
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Github Skills (200)
flutter-plugin10
bottom10
desktop10
firebase-storage10
windows10
drawer10
navigation-drawer10
firebase10
floatingactionbutton10
materialdrawer10
firebase-cloud-messaging10
flutter-apps10
calendar-view10
custom-view10
crashlytics10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Shajeel-Afzal/nftp_flutter
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
Shajeel-Afzal/Learn_With_Shajeel_Online_Batch
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:27 commits, 24 pushes in 2 months
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