About

Muhammad Rizwan Afzal

Principal Frontend Engineer

I’m a Principal Frontend Engineer with 9+ years of experience building and evolving production systems where performance, reliability and engineering quality directly impact the business. My core expertise is React, Next.js and TypeScript, with experience spanning frontend architecture, design systems, payments, GraphQL/REST integrations, performance engineering and cloud delivery.

Today, I work on a high-traffic US e-commerce platform across checkout, payments and delivery, including integrations with Adyen, Synchrony, Apple Pay and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce. Beyond feature delivery, I focus on architecture decisions, reusable engineering patterns, production resilience and removing complexity that slows teams down.

I actively use AI-assisted engineering workflows to accelerate implementation, testing, debugging, code analysis and technical documentation while keeping architecture and engineering decisions human-led. I’m particularly interested in applying AI where it creates measurable engineering leverage rather than adding unnecessary complexity.

Core skills

React.jsNext.jsTypeScriptFrontend ArchitectureSystem DesignAI-Assisted EngineeringGraphQLREST APIsPerformance EngineeringDesign SystemsAdyenApple PaySynchronyStripeDynamics 365 CommerceAWSVercelCI/CDGitHub ActionsNginx

Certifications

December 2022

Front-End Web Development with React

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Coursera

December 2022

Introduction to Front-End Development

Meta / Coursera

April 2022

PCAP — Certified Associate in Python Programming

Python Institute

October 2019

AI for Everyone

DeepLearning.AI / Coursera