Adnan Mustafa — Software Engineer & CTO

Summary

Full-stack developer and CTO with 6+ years of freelance and product experience spanning Python (Flask/FastAPI), PHP, Node.js, and modern JS tooling. Co-founder and CTO of LinkCredible, a digital marketing & link-building agency, where I build the internal SaaS tooling, lead-gen infrastructure, and client delivery systems. Currently a 4th-year Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D) student, balancing clinical coursework with software delivery — comfortable working solo across the full stack, from VPS/Nginx deployment to frontend polish.

Experience

Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder 2023 — Present

LinkCredible (linkcredible.com), with co-founder Janzeb Shujrah

Built and ship LinkCredible Extractor, a dofollow backlink + email extraction SaaS with a PHP backend and CSV delivery pipeline.
Manage backlink acquisition campaigns for agency clients (incl. 10pearls.com), curating placements from a master site-selection sheet.
Built cold outreach systems — HTML email templates across SaaS, local SEO, and niche verticals — plus negotiation & client communication workflows for guest post placements.
Built internal tooling: a Flask contact/email extraction tool for lead-gen, a Google Apps Script + PHP domain search tool spanning ~100 spreadsheets, and a Slack data-harvesting bot (Node.js/Bolt) on a Contabo VPS.

Freelance Full-Stack Developer 2019 — Present · 6+ years

Upwork · Fiverr · Freelancer.com

Started in graphic design, expanded into full-stack web development, WordPress/Elementor, Shopify, Python, PHP, and SEO.
Delivered production SaaS tools, scraping pipelines, and deployed VPS/cPanel infrastructure end-to-end for clients across multiple niches.

Selected Projects

LinkCredible Extractor

Dofollow backlink + email extraction SaaS with a dark glassmorphism UI.

PHP · CSV pipeline

Down2Pin ↗

Pinterest media downloader — separate video/photo/GIF workers, proxy rotation, PM2 + Nginx.

FastAPI · PHP · VPS

shikarpur.shop ↗

Bagisto multi-vendor marketplace with vendor dashboards, restaurant ordering, and chat.

Bagisto · Vite · StackCP

Dispatch

Mass email tool with rotating Gmail SMTP accounts and SPF/DKIM/DMARC configuration.

Node.js · Express · SQLite

DocuFlow

PDF toolkit SaaS with OCR, deployed .

Flask · PyMuPDF · OCR.Space

Power Contact Scraper

Recursive BFS crawler with Cloudflare bypass and phone/email extraction at scale.

Python · High-concurrency

LeadHunter

Async blog-crawling tool for outreach link discovery, with pause/resume and scan history.

Flask · Async

Interactive Portfolio ↗

This site — a 2D platformer résumé you walk through.

Vite · PixiJS

Skills

Languages & Backend

PythonPHP Node.jsFlask FastAPISQL / SQLite

Frontend & Tooling

JavaScriptVite PixiJSPhaser laravelcustom

Infrastructure

VPS DeploymentNginx PM2cPanel / StackCP SPF / DKIM / DMARC

Growth & Data

SEO & Link BuildingWeb Scraping OCRGoogle Apps Script

Education

Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D)

University of Sindh, Jamshoro — currently 4th year

2023 — 2027 (expected)

Beyond Work

Building two side projects : a Pharm.D study resource at pharmd.adnaneathen.com and a health & science blog at fearlessinfo.adnaneathen.com.