Oct 2025 to Present
Remote (Mumbai / Dubai)
Freelance
Freelance Engineer + Operator
Leo Hydra Studio
- ·Sole operating team for a one-principal art business based in Dubai. Hand-coded the platform from scratch and run everything else from Mumbai. No template, no inherited codebase.
- ·Current scale: 20 to 30 orders per day. Every limited-edition print drop sells out within 7 days of going live. Repeat-buyer rate among collectors who own at least one print.
- ·Architected and wrote the production e-commerce platform at leohydra.com from scratch. Stack: Next.js 14, Supabase Postgres, USDT-on-Polygon checkout with on-chain payment verification, bank transfer with admin manual confirm, ~12 tables, ~30 migrations, ~22 API routes, ~50 React components.
- ·Server-side Meta Pixel + Conversions API across every conversion surface (checkout / forms / newsletter / product pages / PageView), dedup-aware via shared eventID. Transactional email pipeline (Resend, 6 lifecycle kinds, audit-logged with admin resend UI).
- ·Three documented security audit rounds + 5 new migrations (027 to 031): DB-backed rate limiter, admin brute-force lockout, CSRF Origin checks, PII redaction, HMAC-secret isolation, CSP + security headers.
- ·Operations: run Meta ad campaigns, manage limited-edition print production with printing houses, coordinate Dubai-warehouse fulfillment, hire and direct video editors, sound design + multi-platform posting.