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16 kilometers under gunfire
A few weeks ago, navigating heavy personal problems, I hit a wall and couldn’t work. Then I remembered 2010: a 16-kilometer walk through a Kashmir curfew, dodging gunfire at age ten. This isn’t about 4 a.m. routines—it’s about using the hardest thing you’ve ever survived as a permanent reference point to keep going.
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Your Hotel Room Has an API. It Probably Shouldn’t.
I just wanted to turn the lights off. What I found instead was every guest’s name, room number, and door override code sitting behind an API with no authorization check.
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The Curious Case of Mongolian Script for Web
I’ve been learning about writing systems. Most languages today flow either left-to-right (like English) or right-to-left (like Arabic), always moving down the page. But Traditional Mongolian script? It’s a total outlier – you read it in vertical columns, moving from left to right across the page. Pretty unique, right? I got curious about where you […]
Work.
Services.
Fractional CTO
Strategic technical leadership without the full-time overhead. Architecture decisions, team structure, and technology roadmap for early-stage and scaling companies.
Product Consulting
From napkin sketch to shipped product. User research, scoping, prototyping, and go-to-market strategy for SaaS and consumer products.
Full-Stack Development
End-to-end web applications, APIs, and platforms built for scale. TypeScript, React, NestJS, PHP, Python, Postgres, MongoDB — from greenfield to enterprise migration.
WordPress Development
Enterprise WordPress at scale. Former Engineering Lead at rtCamp, one of the world's leading WordPress agencies. Custom themes, plugins, Gutenberg blocks, and headless WP with Next.js.
AI Integration
Practical AI that ships. LLM-powered features, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and internal tooling — no hype, just working software.
Growth Engineering
Data-driven experimentation and conversion optimization. A/B testing infrastructure, analytics pipelines, and SEO-driven content engineering.
IT Consulting
Stack assessments, infrastructure audits, cloud architecture reviews, and vendor selection for teams that need an outside perspective before committing.
Research.
View Google ScholarFake news detection and fact verification using knowledge graphs and machine learning
D Shakeel, N Jain · 2021
Personalized drug concentration predictions with machine learning: an exploratory study
D Shakeel, SA Mir · 2020
Insect detection and flight tracking in a controlled environment using machine vision: review of existing techniques and an improved approach
D Shakeel, G Bakshi, DB Singh · 2020
Talks.
About Me.
As the Co-Founder and CTO @seatbase.io and Lead Engineer @rtCamp, I bring 7+ years of full-stack engineering excellence to the table. I specialize in architecting scalable enterprise solutions that currently serve millions of users worldwide.
From my roots in Kashmir to my current base in Saarbrücken, my philosophy remains the same: build software that is fast, accessible, and maintainable. I sit at the intersection of engineering and business, helping companies achieve exceptional results through strategic technology.
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