I'm Yaseen,
a software engineer.
I work close to the metal. One patch in the mainline Linux kernel, two more in review on LKML. Day to day I lead builds for Maldivian government platforms in Laravel, Go and Rust, plus the Linux servers under them. Day job is OXIQA. I take my own work through Zenryk.
Laravel Svelte Linux systemd Docker
Who I've built for
Government and UN platforms, plus consumer apps used across the Maldives. Mostly under OXIQA and Synetecs. On most of them I'm the lead or only engineer: backend, frontend, and the Linux servers underneath.
Kuri Portal
GOVThe ministry's main platform. Laravel backend behind a student portal, an admin portal and core services; Go cloud infra, Ansible deploys.
Transport & Civil Aviation
GOVInternal systems. Vehicle registration, permit verification, ticketing APIs (some in Rust), staff admin tools.
UNDP · Dhivehi TTS
AIDashboard for the UN's Dhivehi text-to-speech project. Record voice samples, train the voice, run it from one UI.
Avas
MOBILEThe country's most-used ride-hailing app. I was one of its engineers, working across the rider and driver apps, the web APIs, and the ops admin panel, through launch and the months after.
50K+ on Google Play ↗Hologo
PRODUCTWeb, admin, native Android, a classroom smart-screen build. One API behind all of it.
RepSet
PRODUCTA full client-management platform for a personal-training business: block-periodization programming, scheduling, progress tracking. Postgres and JWT auth, Dockerised with CI/CD.
What I build
Full-stack web apps
Frontend in React, Svelte or Vue; backend in Laravel, Django, Node or Go. I've built and maintained full platforms for government ministries.
AI & language tooling
LLM tools, NLP, and text-to-speech — including work on Dhivehi with the Synetecs team.
Backend & systems
APIs in Rust, Go and Node, with the databases and infrastructure behind them.
Bots & automation
Discord and Telegram bots, plus automation between systems. Glue that runs without a human in the loop.
Linux & low-level
Rust and C, down to the kernel. A patch in mainline Linux, plus MRs in the asusctl daemon.
Projects
Upstream Linux kernel
I write C for the kernel's ASUS laptop drivers. My fix for mini-LED handling on 2024+ ASUS hardware (the firmware mapping was wrong, so writes failed) was merged by the platform-driver-x86 maintainer into Linus' mainline tree. Two more are in review on the mailing lists: one gates PPT power writes behind the active fan curve; a usbhid change skips interrupt polling on devices with no input reports.
asusctl
The Rust daemon that makes ASUS ROG laptops work on Linux. I added Scar 18 2025 support, rebuilt the AniMe Matrix image/GIF pipeline, and fixed PPT power-tuning races.
(opens in a new tab)autoclaude
A local agent that picks up GitHub issues, runs Claude CLI in a sandbox, and opens a PR with the fix.
(opens in a new tab)hisaab
Browser-only analytics for a Maldives Islamic Bank statement: spending, wealth over time, and a nisab/hawl zakat tracker. Nothing leaves your machine.
(opens in a new tab)Where I've worked
OXIQA
Lead dev on platforms for government ministries and product teams. APIs, frontends, the Linux servers under them. On bigger engagements, the deploy and infra calls too.
Synetecs
The AI side: thaana.ai, legalnotes, and the UNDP Dhivehi TTS dashboard.
Linux upstream · asus-linux · OGC
Kernel and userspace work on the platform/x86 ASUS drivers and the asusctl daemon, plus tooling for the Open Gaming Collective.
AvasRide
One of the engineers on the Avas ride-hailing platform — the rider and driver apps, the web APIs, and the ops admin panel.
Ooredoo Maldives
Field fiber → the provisioning office: device configs for mobile & fiber, staff training, UAT. Employee of the month ×2.
On GitHub
Education
BSc (Hons) Computer Science
Foundation in Engineering
O Levels
Writing
Need something built?
I take on a limited number of projects at a time. Hire me directly, or contract Zenryk if you'd rather work with a registered business. Tell me what you're building.
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