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Lead Front-End Developer - Dubai, UAE

ImranBughio.

14+ years crafting fast, beautiful web experiences for governments and global brands - now building AI-powered tools that make whole teams faster. Agentic workflows, Claude Code, and pixel-perfect front-ends.

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14+Years of craft
100+Projects shipped
8Gov & enterprise platforms
01Selected Work

Projects with real impact

Personal AI Task OSAI Product

Personal AI Task OS

An AI-native workspace that manages my life and career

Next.jsOpenAI APIRAGVercel
Create Ideas - The Meta MindAI Product

Create Ideas - The Meta Mind

Intelligence patterns, documented as a deck - and put to work

Next.jsLLM OrchestrationImage GenerationVercel
PagelumeAI Product

Pagelume

AI-powered website builder from natural-language prompts

ReactOpenAI APIAWSn8n
Visit Abu DhabiGovernment

Visit Abu Dhabi

The Emirate's official tourism platform

ReactSitecore JSSSCSS
AlUla Design Studio

AlUla Design Studio

Scroll-driven storytelling for a Saudi royal commission

Qasr Al Hosn

Qasr Al Hosn

Digital home of Abu Dhabi's oldest monument

Cultural Foundation

Cultural Foundation

Abu Dhabi's arts & culture hub - plus a children's library

Create Group

Create Group

Award-winning agency site for my home team

Reel Cinemas

Reel Cinemas

Modern cinema experience & booking platform

Also shipped

  • Union DayUAE national celebration site - parallax storytelling under tight deadlinesGSAP · CSS
  • EBDACorporate site focused on transitions and content-first layoutsHTML · CSS · JS
  • Infinite CharacterAI character-consistency tool for Stable Diffusion creators (sunset)Python · LangChain
02About
Imran Bughio

Front-end craft meets AI leverage

I'm a Lead Front-End Developer with 14+ years building responsive, high-performance web platforms - from national tourism portals to immersive cultural sites for governments and global brands across the Gulf.

Today I spend as much time engineering with AI as for the web: I use Claude Code as a daily driver for agentic development, and I've helped my team ship internal AI tools for client and team management - automating the boring parts so people can do the interesting ones.

Led UI departments on government & enterprise platforms
AI tools in production - internal, client-facing, and personal
Performance obsessive - Core Web Vitals as a feature
Optimizely, Sitecore JSS & modern CMS delivery
03Experience
2016 - Present
Create.

Lead Front-End Developer

Lead since 2024 - front-end developer 2016 to 2024

  • Lead the front-end team delivering government and enterprise platforms (Visit Abu Dhabi, AlUla, Qasr Al Hosn) - leading full teams on some, delivering others end to end.
  • Created the front-end team's delivery processes and cycles, including workflows that bridge development and design.
  • Helped design and build internal and client-facing AI tools for client and team management - from requirement capture to delivery tracking.
  • Delivered Optimizely-based builds for enterprise clients alongside React and Sitecore JSS platforms.
  • Adopted Claude Code as a core development workflow and drive AI adoption through regular lunch-and-learns.
  • Improved application performance and reduced defects through reusable component architecture and rigorous cross-browser and device testing.
2011 - 2015
Ephlux

UI Developer

  • Managed full front-end delivery for web and mobile applications.
  • Built responsive UIs with HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, SASS, and Gulp.
  • Led UX efforts - wireframes and usability testing.
  • Maintained consistency across browsers, platforms, and devices.

Education

  • 2011Arena Multimedia Specialist Program (AMSP)Arena Multimedia, Karachi - Two-year multimedia diploma
  • 2007Intermediate, Computer ScienceIslamia College, Karachi
04Toolkit

AI & Automation

Claude CodeOpenAI APIn8n AgentsRAGPrompt EngineeringContext EngineeringLangChain

Frameworks

ReactNext.jsAngularVue.js

Core Tech

JavaScript (ES6+)TypeScriptHTML5CSS3 / SCSSResponsive Design

Platforms & CMS

OptimizelySitecore JSSWordPressVercelAWS

Motion

GSAPPIXI.jsLottieCSS Animation

Design

FigmaUX & WireframingPhotoshopIllustrator

Spoken Languages

English (fluent)Urdu (native)Sindhi (native)French (basic)
REST APIsSEOPerformance OptimizationCore Web VitalsCross-browser CompatibilityAgile DeliveryTeam LeadershipMentorship
05AI in Practice

I don't just use AI
I build with it

Claude Code as a daily driver

Agentic AI development is my default workflow - planning, building, and reviewing with AI in the loop, shipping in a fraction of the time.

AI tools for teams & clients

Helped my team build internal AI tools for client management and team management - turning scattered processes into assisted workflows.

Agent orchestration with n8n

Tool-calling agents, webhook pipelines, and multi-step automations that connect LLMs to real product actions.

A personal AI Task OS

My own life runs on an app I built: AI-categorized todos, semantic knowledge, and AI-driven skill gap analysis.

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06Contact

Let's build
something great

Open to leadership roles, AI-forward product work, and ambitious web experiences. The fastest way to reach me:

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