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║  ⚡  DEVELOPER STATUS  ·          ASHAN                  ║
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║  🟢  Status       →  Available for hire                  ║
║  🌍  Location     →  Pakistan 🇵🇰                         ║
║  💼  Mode         →  Freelance + Full-time               ║
║  🔭  Current      →  Building AI-powered web apps        ║
║  🧠  Learning     →  LLM APIs · AWS · TypeScript         ║
║  💬  Ask me about →  React, Next.js, Firebase, Python    ║
║  ⚡  Fun fact     →  I debug with console.log. Always.   ║
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const ashan = {
  name:      "Ashan Abdur Rehman Zahid",
  location:  "Pakistan 🇵🇰",
  role:      "Full Stack Developer",
  education: "APTECH — Diploma in Software Engineering",

  currently_building: [
    "🤖 AI-powered web tools using LLM APIs",
    "⚛️  Full-stack apps with React & Next.js",
    "🔓 Open-source projects I'd actually use",
  ],

  core_values: [
    "Clean code",        "Great UI/UX",
    "Shipping fast",     "Learning by breaking things",
  ],

  open_to:     "Freelance · Full-time · Open-source Collabs",
  superpower:  "Figuring things out without being told how.",
  confession:  "console.log() is my best debugging tool. 🤫",
};

Self-driven developer from Pakistan. Learned by building real things — not just following tutorials. APTECH gave me the foundation, the internet gave me everything else. I write readable code, care about design, and I ship.

Hit ⭐ Follow — I push real projects here, not homework assignments.

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🌐 Frontend

⚙️ Backend & Database

🤖 AI & Automation

🎨 UI/UX & Design

🧰 Tools & Platforms

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HTML & CSS / Tailwind    ██████████████████████░░  90%
JavaScript               █████████████████████░░░  87%
TypeScript               ████████████████████░░░░  82%
React & Next.js          ████████████████████░░░░  80%
Git & GitHub             ████████████████████░░░░  85%
UI/UX & Figma            █████████████████░░░░░░░  72%
Node.js & Express        ███████████████░░░░░░░░░  65%
Firebase & Databases     ██████████████░░░░░░░░░░  60%
Python & Automation      █████████████░░░░░░░░░░░  57%
AI / LLM Integration     ██████████████░░░░░░░░░░  60%  ← growing fast 🚀

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🤖 Automation & GitHub API

🔧 Project	⚙️ What It Does	🛠 Stack	🏆
Pull Shark Automation	Full Pull Shark workflow — branch creation, PR open, auto-merge. Zero manual clicks.	Python GitHub API	🦈
Pair Extraordinaire Automation	Automates co-authored commits. Built to understand how GitHub tracks collaboration internally.	Python GitHub API	🤝
Galaxy Brain Automation	Automates GitHub Discussions — posts questions, marks answers, triggers Galaxy Brain.	Python GitHub API	🧠

💡 Not tutorial clones. Every project started with a real problem or curiosity — and ended with something deployed.

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Pull Shark × 4

Pair Extraordinaire × 4

Galaxy Brain × 2

YOLO Achieved

Quickdraw Achieved

Starstruck Achieved

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$ cat current_focus.txt

🤖  LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic) — wiring AI into real products
⚛️  Advanced React — memoization, lazy loading, custom hooks
🔧  REST APIs with Node.js + Express — auth, middleware, error handling
☁️  Cloud deployment — Vercel, Firebase, getting into AWS
🐍  Python scripting — automation bots, API wrappers, schedulers
🎯  TypeScript — migrating JS projects over, one at a time
🧪  Testing — Jest, React Testing Library (finally doing it right)

$ echo "Not learning from a list. Building things that force me to figure these out."
Not learning from a list. Building things that force me to figure these out.

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💡 Idea
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🔍 Break it down into tiny solvable pieces
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🌐 Google / docs / ask Claude what I don't know
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🔨 Build the ugly version first — just make it work
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✅ Make it actually work end-to-end
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🎨 Polish the UI until it looks intentional
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🚀 Ship it — then improve based on real usage
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🔁 Repeat forever. Never stop shipping.

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Service	Details
🌐 Full Website / Landing Page	Responsive, fast, custom-designed. React or HTML/CSS/JS.
⚛️ React / Next.js App	Full frontend — routing, state, API calls, deployment.
🔌 Firebase Backend	Auth, Firestore, real-time updates, file storage.
🤖 AI Integration	Wire OpenAI or Anthropic APIs into your product.
🐍 Python Automation	GitHub bots, workflow scripts, API scrapers.
🎨 UI/UX Redesign	Take an existing site and make it not embarrassing.
📱 Responsive Rebuild	Make your old site look great on every device.

💬 Let's talk: Reach out on Instagram or via Linktree

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I'm open to freelance work, full-time roles, and open-source collabs.
If you have a project that needs a developer who ships clean code and cares about the result — reach out.

⭐ A star or a follow keeps me motivated to keep building and sharing open-source.

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