Ahmad Afifuddin, software engineer

I build software that makes life easier.

Based in Kuala Lumpur, building web and mobile apps at Forth North and on the side.

Design.Build.Ship.

At home across
the whole Stack

Built for people who
just need it to Work

Open a project to see who it's for, what I built and the stack.

Freelance, 2021 - now, in development

Customers take a ticket on their phone and get a push notification when it's their turn.

  • TanStack Start
  • NestJS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Expo
  • NativeWind
  • Tailwind CSS

Personal, 2026, in development

Plan each day's prayers, Quran reading and dhikr, then tick them off as you go.

  • Expo
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Uniwind
  • HeroUI Native

Personal, 2026, in development

Tips for Malaysian streamers that land in their own payment account and pop up on stream within seconds.

  • TanStack Start
  • NestJS
  • PostgreSQL
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn/ui
  • Drizzle
  • Better Auth

Freelance, 2026 - now, partly live

Head office staff and sales agents manage a skincare brand's products, stock, orders and payments, each seeing only what their role allows.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • TanStack Table
  • shadcn/ui
  • Tailwind CSS
  • TanStack Router
  • TanStack Query
  • Zod
  • Tiptap

Freelance, 2024, completed

Log a building defect with a photo and the tower, floor and zone it's on, and keep the Excel assessment forms in the same app.

  • Expo
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Supabase
  • Expo Router
  • React Hook Form
  • Zod

Freelance, 2024, completed

Log each road repair on a phone, see how much asphalt it took, and share the record as a PDF.

  • Expo
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Supabase
  • Expo Router
  • Zustand
  • React Hook Form
  • Zod

Forth North Technologies · Mar 2024 – now

And at my day job

At Forth North I build the front end of dashboards for a private university's lecturers and staff, on a team of three.

Day job, 2024 - now, live

Staff sign in with their university Microsoft account and get the views and tools for their role in one dashboard.

  • Next.js
  • shadcn/ui
  • TanStack Table
  • NextAuth
  • Microsoft Entra ID

Day job, 2024, completed

Lecturers sign in with their university Microsoft account and find attendance, announcements and their timetable in one dashboard.

  • Next.js
  • shadcn/ui
  • TanStack Table
  • NextAuth
  • Microsoft Entra ID

See the role in Experience ↓

Portrait of Ahmad Afifuddin
Apih

Hello world,
I'm Apih.

Software Engineering graduate from Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. I mostly build dashboards and internal tools for organizations, the kind that take the busywork out of someone's day.

If you've had an idea sitting in your notes app for too long, I'd like to hear about it.

Currently at
Forth North Technologies
Based in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Studied
BCS Software Engineering (Hons), UMT
Reaches for
TanStack Start, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Expo

Schooled between the hills
and the sea.

Matriculation in the hills of Kelantan, then a Software Engineering degree on the beach in Terengganu.

  1. Illustrated aerial view of Kolej Matrikulasi Kelantan: terracotta-roofed blocks around a green field, with forested hills behind.

    Kolej Matrikulasi Kelantan

    2017, Matriculation in Computer Science

    Pasir Puteh, Kelantan

  2. Illustrated aerial view of Universiti Malaysia Terengganu: the turtle-shaped main hall, with the beach and the South China Sea behind.

    Universiti Malaysia Terengganu

    2018 - 2021, BCS Software Engineering (Hons)

    Kuala Nerus, Terengganu

It all started witha dictionary.

A searchable accounting dictionary for a 2019 web competition at UMT.

  1. 2017

    Matriculation in Computer Science, KMKt

  2. 2018

    Started Software Engineering at UMT

  3. 2019

    Website Competition, HISAACC UMT

  4. 2019

    MASUM Esport Championship with Team Onyx

  5. 2020

    Student Academic System in Java and MySQL

  6. 2020

    Step tracking for an E-Health app in Flutter

  7. 2021

    Graduated with honours, started NextQueue (now QueueNow)

2021 → now

Then I got to
do it for a living.

A day job in Kuala Lumpur, and a freelance project on the side.

  1. Software Engineer

    Forth North Technologies · Kuala Lumpur

    Building internal dashboards and tools for clients.

    See the projects in Work ↑

    –Present

  2. Sole developer Freelance

    QueueNow

    Building a queueing app for small businesses in Malaysia, on web and mobile.

    See it in Work ↑

    – Present