Tahir Iqbal
Technical Lead at Upwork
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
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Top SchoolTahir Iqbal is a technical lead and entrepreneur with over 15 years of hands-on software engineering experience, specializing in PHP frameworks (Laravel, Yii, CodeIgniter) and extensive WordPress and Magento plugin development. As CEO of IDLBridge and Technical Lead at WonderShark.ai, he blends leadership with deep technical delivery—designing scalable backends, optimizing data pipelines, and integrating AI and analytics for marketing intelligence. He has a strong record on freelance platforms (4,800+ Upwork hours across 60+ projects) and has built 100+ custom WordPress plugins, demonstrating both product-focused craftsmanship and repeatable delivery. At PopTribe he drove backend architecture, CI/CD, and cloud operations on DigitalOcean, showing a knack for reliable infrastructure and performance tuning. Tahir pairs developer-first practices—Git repo management, code reviews, and database optimization—with entrepreneurial instincts that keep projects aligned to business outcomes. Based in Lahore with an MCS in Computer Science, he also maintains a technical blog and actively seeks collaborations that bridge engineering and product.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MCS, Computer Science, MCS, Computer Science at Bahauddin Zakariya University
Stackoverflow
97reputation
9kreached
5answers
3questions
Github Skills (53)
javascript9
vue9
magento2-free-extension8
jwt8
ui-toolkit8
axios8
laravel8
admin8
element-ui8
vuex7
vue-router7
ui-components7
printing7
jquery-plugin7
vuejs27
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tahiriqbalnajam/kps
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:6 PRs, 86 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
tahiriqbalnajam/openpos_bootstrap
Nov 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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