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Waqas Ahmed

Full Stack Blockchain Developer

I started obsessing over GWBasic programs and web design at 17 — earning my first Google cheque of $107 from my first website. Since then I've built LAMP & MERN stack apps, smart contracts in Solidity and Haskell, eCommerce platforms, and decentralised applications.

Currently based in Nicosia, Cyprus — working remotely across the globe.

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Core Stack

PHP Laravel Node.js React TypeScript Solidity Haskell Ethereum IPFS ENS MySQL MongoDB PostgreSQL AWS Docker WooCommerce Magento Akeneo GraphQL

§Experience

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Independent Contractor

— Self-Employed

Jan 2018 — Present · Remote / Digital Nomad

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Jan 2000 — Jan 2000 · TODO

§Featured Projects

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Case Study

wakqasahmed.eth — Decentralized Portfolio

A personal portfolio site built with Astro, deployed to IPFS, and accessible via an ENS name on Ethereum mainnet — no servers, no gatekeepers.

AstroIPFSENSWeb3Tailwind CSS
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Decentralized CI/CD for Web3 Publishing

A production-grade deployment pipeline that builds, tests, and publishes a static site to IPFS — with ENS contenthash updates on merge — eliminating any dependency on centralised hosting.

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§Recent Writing

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Building an Email-Gated Booking Chatbot on a Decentralized Portfolio

How I added a contact and booking chatbot to a static IPFS-hosted site — with email verification, NVIDIA NIM-powered Q&A, and Google Calendar scheduling — all wired through a self-hosted n8n workflow. Zero backend servers, zero SaaS subscriptions.

May 2026

Strat to Strax Swap and Staking via Raspberry Pi

Step-by-step guide to swapping STRAT for STRAX and setting up staking on a Raspberry Pi node.

Oct 2021

Glossary: Bitcoin, Blockchain and Crypto Currency

A reference glossary covering key terms in Bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrency.

Jul 2018

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