Ali Arshad

Portfolio

Selected engagements across media, insurance, healthcare, retail, and AI: the problems solved and what changed for the business.

Media & Publishing

Digital Publishing Platform Modernization

Modernized a 16-year-old PHP codebase behind a publishing platform serving roughly 4 million monthly readers, migrating services to containerized AWS deployments with…

Page load time cut from 4.8s to 1.4s with zero publishing interruptions during a multi-year modernization.

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Node.js

Insurance

Insurance Quote & Rating Platform

Built and maintained the quote and rating platform behind a national franchise insurance program covering roughly 13,000 U.S. locations, with configurable business rules…

Quote turnaround reduced from 2 days to under 15 minutes across roughly 13,000 U.S. locations.

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • REST APIs
  • Business Rules Engine

SaaS / AI

LLM-Powered Lead-Response Platform

Designed, built, and deployed an AI platform that classifies inbound leads and drafts tailored replies automatically, with evaluation controls and token-cost monitoring…

Automated lead classification and response in production, with measurable quality and cost per interaction.

  • Python
  • LLM APIs
  • LangChain
  • RAG
  • PostgreSQL

Healthcare

Healthcare Eligibility & EHR Integrations

Built healthcare applications supporting eligibility verification, operational reporting, and secure Epic EHR API integrations for a major national health insurer.

Secure Epic EHR integrations and eligibility tooling in daily operational use.

  • PHP
  • Epic APIs
  • MySQL
  • REST
  • OAuth 2.0

Retail / E-Commerce

High-Traffic E-Commerce Platform

Developed and supported an e-commerce platform handling roughly 25,000 SKUs and 3,000+ daily orders, plus a live-bidding auction platform, covering checkout, inventory,…

Dependable checkout and inventory operations at 3,000+ orders per day across roughly 25,000 SKUs.

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Payment APIs
  • Shipping APIs
  • Caching

Client work is described in general terms and carefully managed under NDA agreements.