Kamran Ul Haq

Building tools
that create leverage.

Products, experiments, and lessons from
nearly three decades of building software.

Products

Production-Grade Tools

Software that ships. Used by real customers every day.

LeadzTrak
LeadzTrak
Your lead pipeline, built into LinkedIn.Live · Shipping

A Chrome extension that adds a CRM panel directly onto LinkedIn. Save profiles, draft outreach messages, set follow-up dates, and track your pipeline — without ever leaving a profile page. Features AI enrichment, follow-up reminders, team workspaces, and analytics.

ThreadTrak
ThreadTrak
Find the 5% of replies that actually matter. Reply in 30 minutes.Live · Shipping

A Chrome extension for X/Twitter that maps reply threads, surfaces high-value conversations, and turns reply chaos into a clear follow-up queue. Filter noise, reply with context in view, and stop losing important conversations to the feed. One payment, lifetime access.

AlgoTrak
AlgoTrak
Professional crypto trading bot — ship in hours, not months.Live · Shipping

A production-grade algorithmic trading bot for Python developers and quantitative traders. 14 configurable strategies (SMA Crossover, RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, VWAP, and more), 5 exchange integrations (Binance, Bybit, Kraken, KuCoin, OKX), full risk management module with stop-loss and circuit breakers, 51-test pytest suite, Docker deployment, and a 200-page platform guide. Full source code under MIT license — one-time purchase, no subscription.

XConnect
XConnect
Your DMs are full of relationships you forgot to close.Live · Shipping

A Chrome extension that turns your X DMs into a real pipeline. Save prospects while you scroll, track where each conversation stands, send template-based messages, and never lose a warm contact to a missed follow-up. Local-first data storage, optional AI assistance with your own key. Free tier available.

Xcraper
Xcraper
Audience intelligence for X power users.Live · Shipping

A Chrome extension that captures X profile data as you browse and exports it clean — so you can filter, sort, and act on it instead of reconstructing it from memory. Capture profiles, followers, following lists, and post snapshots. Export to CSV or JSON. Local-first, runs entirely in your browser. Free forever with a generous quota.

Engage

How I Work With Clients

Every engagement starts with a diagnostic call — free, no pitch, no commitment. I listen to your situation, ask hard questions, and tell you honestly whether I can help. If I can, I'll propose a fixed-scope engagement with clear outcomes and a flat price. No hourly billing. No open-ended scoping. Just a defined problem, a defined solution, and a defined price.

Fixed Scope
Defined problem. Defined solution. Defined price. No surprises.
Fast Turnaround
Diagnostics in days. Audits in weeks. Rescue sprints start immediately.
Evidence, Not Opinions
Memory dumps, traces, query plans. You see exactly what I see.
Fractional CTO / Technical Director
Leadership

For funded startups that need senior technical leadership — without the $250K+ full-time hire.

The SituationYou have a team of 5–25 engineers, a product in market, and investors asking about your technical roadmap. But your most senior engineer is stretched thin, architecture decisions are piling up, and every sprint feels reactive. You need someone who's been through scaling before — but you're not ready for a full-time CTO.
What You Get
Technical Roadmap
A 12-month architecture and delivery plan aligned to your business milestones. Investors stop asking 'what's the plan?' because they can see it.
Team Acceleration
I run sprints, review architecture decisions, and mentor your seniors. Your team ships faster because someone is clearing the road ahead.
Production Confidence
Architecture decisions that prevent fires, not fight them. Database schema reviews, cloud cost optimization, and resilience patterns baked in early.
Investor Readiness
Technical due diligence prep, architecture documentation, and scalable narratives for your board deck. You walk into funding meetings with answers.
Architecture Audit & Hardening
Preventative

For teams scaling up who need to know what will break — before it breaks in production.

The SituationYour system works today. But will it work at 10x traffic? Your team has gut feelings about bottlenecks, but no data. You've had a few close calls — a slow query here, a memory spike there — and the next one might not be so forgiving. You need hard evidence and a prioritized fix plan, not another consulting deck.
What You Get
Bottleneck Evidence
Thread pool saturation, GC pressure, connection pool exhaustion, N+1 queries — identified with production traces and memory profiles. You'll see exactly where your system spends its time.
Database Deep-Dive
Query plan analysis, missing indexes, lock contention, and connection pooling gaps. I find the queries that will bring your database to its knees under load.
Prioritized Fix List
Every finding ranked by impact and effort. Start with the 20% of fixes that deliver 80% of the stability improvement. Exact remediation steps — code snippets included.
Resilience Playbook
Circuit breakers, retry policies, graceful degradation patterns, and timeout strategies specific to your stack. Your team knows exactly what to do when things go wrong.
Production Rescue Sprint
Urgent

For teams whose system is down, degrading, or in a crisis that's costing money right now.

The SituationYour system is down. Or degrading. Or producing results that don't make sense. Your team has been debugging for hours — maybe days. Every minute costs money, trust, and customers. You don't need a proposal. You need someone who can look at memory dumps, trace live requests, and find the root cause. Now.
What You Get
Root Cause in Days
Memory dump analysis, live diagnostic triage, thread contention detection. I find what's actually broken — not what your team thinks might be broken — and I show you the evidence.
Immediate Stabilization
A fix that stops the bleeding today. Feature flag to disable the broken path, connection pool resize, circuit breaker activation — whatever gets you back online.
Permanent Fix Plan
The root cause explained with evidence. The architectural change that prevents recurrence. Code-level fix specification your team can implement.
Honest Assessment
If I can't help — if the problem is outside my expertise — I tell you in the first call and point you to someone who can. No billable discovery, no wasted time.
Not Sure Which Service You Need?

Not sure which engagement fits your situation? Head over to the Contact page — describe what you need, and I'll tell you honestly which service matches, or point you in the right direction. No charge for the conversation.

Workshop

On The Workbench

Projects being shaped, tested, and hardened.

InboxForge
Enterprise email marketing, running on your own infrastructure.Building

A self-hosted email marketing platform that orchestrates the entire lifecycle of bulk email campaigns through deep AWS SES integration. Think Mailchimp, but running on your own hardware — with fully automated subdomain provisioning that creates DNS records, SES identities, and DKIM signing without ever touching a DNS control panel.

ForgeFlow
Your content pipeline, from blank page to published — without the busywork.Building

A local-first, AI-powered social media content planning operating system. Built for solo founders, indie hackers, and small teams who need to produce content consistently without starting from a blank page every time. Batch-generate posts from a topic and tone, organize in a full workspace, drag-and-drop schedule onto a calendar, and export in one click.

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Notes

Builder Notes

Not blog articles. Raw dispatches from the workshop floor.

What I Learned

Lessons extracted from building and shipping real products.

What I Shipped

Release notes, launches, and what actually went out the door.

What Broke

Post-mortems. Incidents. Things that went sideways and why.

Experiments

Side projects, prototypes, and things I'm testing in the lab.

Product Decisions

The reasoning behind product choices — what we built and what we killed.

Newsletter

Dispatches From The Workshop

Products, experiments, failures, and lessons from the workshop. One starting with a demo of LeadzTrak and why I built it.

Behind-the-scenes builder dispatches, product demos, and hard-won lessons from 30 years of writing code — delivered straight to your inbox.

About

Nearly Three Decades Building Software

I started coding before the dot-com bubble and never stopped. Three decades later, I'm still at the workbench — designing, shipping, and iterating on tools that give people leverage.

1990
The Beginning

Started coding as a teenager. Fell in love with building things that worked. Shipped my first commercial software before the dot-com bubble burst. Learned early that shipping beats perfect — a lesson that still drives every product I build today.

2000
Enterprise Scale

Built enterprise systems serving thousands of users. Learned that software lives or dies by its users — not its architecture. Discovered the transformative power of automation and never looked back. This decade shaped my conviction: software should remove friction, not create it.

2010
Founder Era

Founded multiple companies. Launched products that succeeded and products that failed. Every failure taught something a success never could — about markets, about timing, about resilience. Built the muscles that matter: knowing what to build and what to kill.

2020
Building in Public

The workshop is always open. LeadzTrak, ThreadTrak, AlgoTrak, XConnect, Xcraper — each product solves a real problem I've lived. InboxForge and ForgeFlow are on the bench. Same hunger to create leverage through code. Now sharing the journey as it happens — the wins, the breaks, and everything between.

Many successes. Many failures. Still building.

Contact

Let's Keep In Touch

Have a question about a product? Want to collaborate? Just want to say hello? The fastest way to reach me is a DM on X or LinkedIn. I read every message — especially from builders.

Reach Me
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