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Pooya NikbakhtSenior Software Engineer

Senior full-stack engineer, freelance

Websites and smart tools for small businesses.

Booking and online ordering, fast websites, and AI assistants that answer your customers, built for small businesses and startups.

Kingsway Cuts, a barbershop website with online booking
Northwind Coffee Co. website on a phone
Maple Paws Vet website on a phone
  • 10+ years

    building web products

  • Founder

    of a startup, then product owner

  • MSc CS

    research in optimization algorithms

  • AWS certified

    Solutions Architect

Services

What I do

Full-stack web work, from frontend to backend, databases, APIs and cloud architecture. These are the most common starting points, each backed by real projects.

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  • Fast, SEO-ready websites

    Marketing sites, content sites, and CMS-backed pages that load fast, are easy for search engines to read, and that you can edit without a developer.

    Starting at
    $250
    Typical timeline
    4 to 14 days
  • Booking, ordering and quotes for your business

    Online booking, ordering and instant quotes built for your business, with intake forms, reminders and an admin that works on your phone. Get a new site with them built in, or add a "Book now" button to the website you already have.

    Starting at
    $300
    Typical timeline
    3 to 10 days
  • AI assistants for your website

    Assistants that answer customers and book appointments, quotes from a photo, receipts into spreadsheets, and multi-step automations, tested so they stay reliable.

    Starting at
    $200
    Typical timeline
    3 to 14 days
  • Fixing and improving your existing website

    Already on WordPress, Shopify, or a React or Next.js app? I fix bugs, speed up slow pages, clean up SEO, and add features like booking or an AI assistant, without a rebuild. Small, well-scoped work with a clear before and after.

    Starting at
    $80
    Typical timeline
    2 to 7 days
  • MVP and feature builds

    A first version of your product, or a new feature for an existing one, built end to end: UI, API, database, and deployment.

    Starting at
    $1,500
    Typical timeline
    Quoted per milestone

Selected projects

Recent projects

Built the way I'd build yours: try them live, read how they work, and see the numbers.

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Kingsway Cuts home page: a dark barbershop site with the headline Sharp cuts. Straight talk. No rush. and a Book a chair button.

Kingsway Cuts: a barbershop website with online booking

A bold website for a three-chair barbershop where customers pick a barber (or the first one free), book a time at midnight, and check the walk-in wait before they leave home. The owner runs the day from a calendar on his phone, and reminders go out on their own.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Cloudflare Workers
Northwind Coffee Co. home page: a warm photo of a drum roaster behind the headline Small-batch coffee, roasted by the harbour, with Shop coffee and Start a subscription buttons.

Northwind Coffee Co.: a photo-rich café and roaster website

A warm, photo-led website for a coffee roaster with three cafés: the coffees with tasting notes and prices, subscriptions, brew guides, the story behind the roastery, and each café's hours. Fast on a phone, cheap to host, and with a support chat that answers from the business's own help center.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Cloudflare Workers
Website support bot: a coffee shop website with the chat open, answering a shipping question and showing the quoted passage from page 2 of the help center.

Website support bot and booking receptionist

A chat widget that answers website visitors from a business's own help documents with the source, and books appointments from real open times in the business's booking system. One script tag installs it on any site.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • FastAPI

Process

How I work

Four steps, the same on every project, so you always know what happens next.

  1. Step 1: Short call

    We talk through what you're building, who it's for, and what done looks like.

  2. Step 2: Written plan

    I send a short written plan: scope, milestones, price, and the questions I still have. Nothing starts until you're happy with it.

  3. Step 3: Small milestones

    Work ships in small pieces you can see and test. You get written updates you can read at the start of your day.

  4. Step 4: Launch and support

    Careful, finished work at the price we agreed. After launch I stay available for fixes and the next round of improvements.

Pooya Nikbakht, smiling, outdoors by a river

About

Hi, I'm Pooya

I'm a senior full-stack engineer with 10+ years of experience, from founding a startup to building large-scale products at bigger companies: one of the top Persian news apps, and a global marketplace with high-traffic search, recommendation systems, microservices on AWS, and AI features. I bring that same care for solid architecture and fast, reliable systems to every project, big or small.

More about my background

Have a project in mind?

Send a short note on what you're building. I'll reply with questions and a rough plan.