# Fahad Khan

> Founding engineer at LFG, based in Dubai. I'm building LFG, a way to pay and get paid in stablecoins without ever thinking about the blockchain. Before that, ten years shipping payments, POS and SaaS products end to end across India, Kuwait and the UAE.

## Now
Founding engineer at LFG (https://getlfg.app). Making stablecoin payments feel like normal payments. Merchants and freelancers get paid in USDC through a payment link, a phone at the counter or an API, settled in seconds, on flat monthly pricing instead of a cut of every sale.
Focus: Leading engineering, Payments backend, Mobile wallet app.

## How I work
I care about shipping things that work and a fast loop from idea to production. I like boring, well tested code, and I still pack a bag whenever there's a gap.
AI is in my loop every day. Claude Code writes most first drafts; I own the design, the review and what reaches production. Nobody types every line by hand anymore. The job is knowing what to build and proving it works.

## Stack
I'm not tied to a stack. I pick what fits the problem and the team, then take it from first sketch to running in production.
- Prototype: Claude Code, Figma, Firebase
- Web: React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Livewire, Tailwind CSS
- Mobile: React Native
- Backend and data: Nest.js, Node.js, Laravel, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, WebSockets
- Payments and Web3: Stablecoins, USDC, Web3, Payments
- Cloud and ops: AWS, DigitalOcean, Vercel, Linux, Datadog, Sentry

## Work history
- [Founding Engineer, LFG (Layer Flow Gateway)](https://www.fahadkhan.pro/experiences/LFG): Now
- [Senior Software Engineer, Leading Business Management, Dubai, UAE](https://www.fahadkhan.pro/experiences/Leading%20Business%20Management): Nov 2024 to Nov 2025
- [Software Engineer, 99 Robots, New Jersey, USA](https://www.fahadkhan.pro/experiences/99%20Robots): Feb 2024 to Oct 2024
- [Senior Software Engineer, Foodics, Dubai, UAE](https://www.fahadkhan.pro/experiences/Foodics): May 2022 to Mar 2024
- [Senior Developer, Hesabe Payment Collection Company, Kuwait](https://www.fahadkhan.pro/experiences/Hesabe): Aug 2019 to Mar 2022
- [Associate Technology, Gomechanic, Gurugram, India](https://www.fahadkhan.pro/experiences/Gomechanic): Aug 2018 to Jul 2019
- [Software Engineer, Nouveau Horizon Systems, New Delhi, India](https://www.fahadkhan.pro/experiences/Nouveau%20Horizon%20Systems): May 2017 to Jul 2018
- [Backend Developer, Edunuts, New Delhi, India](https://www.fahadkhan.pro/experiences/Edunuts): Nov 2016 to May 2017
- [Trainee Software Developer, Digital IP Insights, Noida, India](https://www.fahadkhan.pro/experiences/Digital%20IP%20Insights): May 2016 to Nov 2016

## Travel
For a few years my office was wherever the wifi held up, from Southeast Asia to the World Cup in Qatar. Dubai is home base now, but I still head out on and off.
Lived in: India, Kuwait, UAE. Travelled: Singapore, Malaysia, Bali, Qatar, Türkiye, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Tunisia, Vietnam.

## Education
- Bachelor of Computer Applications
- Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications

## Contact
- Email: contact@fahadkhan.pro
- GitHub: https://github.com/fahadkhan1740
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fahad-khan-web
- X: https://twitter.com/fahadkhan1740
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegeeknomad/