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MF

About.

A profile.

I am a senior product engineer based in October City, Egypt. I have been writing production software since 2018 and working inside high-end hospitality since 2015. I have been studying human behavior since I was a child and I have been doing it deliberately, with research and notes, for six years.

The thread connecting these is a way of paying attention. I look for the hidden architecture in whatever room I happen to be in. A five-star restaurant has one. A codebase has one. A market has one. A person has one. I have spent most of my life learning to read these, and lately I have spent more of it building them.

The summer I turned eighteen, I took a temporary job at a luxury resort on the Egyptian North Coast. They put me on the floor of one of the restaurants. Within two weeks the senior staff had started watching me. Within two months they had me leading shifts. By my second season they handed me the entire restaurant operation, something the resort had never done with a temporary employee in its history. Guests began telling me, often and unprompted, that it was the best service they had ever experienced anywhere in the world. They were responding to a combination of things. A fast read of the room. A steady presence. The kind of memory that holds an entire menu in place before the first guest arrives. And the discipline of a person who had quietly studied every ingredient, every step of the sequence of service, every kind of guest who walked through the door. The instinct was already there. The work made it reliable. I have been operating that way ever since, in whatever room I happen to be in.

I started writing production software in 2018 at a small financial office in Tanta. From there I worked across a software house, then a mid-sized firm where reliability became my currency. Today I am senior at a US premium travel concierge company called Ascend, remote from October City. I am also tech lead at a digital consultancy called OutSmark, where I build the firm's agentic SaaS platform and the bilingual civic apps that run on top of it. I keep a handful of independent client partnerships on the side, mostly in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

Software is one of many materials I work in. I read people quickly and I am usually right. I teach physics to high school and first-year university students, never a session I have not first re-mastered. I run scenario-based technical interviews that candidates remember years later. I freelanced as a graphic designer and as a video editor for years before software took over. I write essays and notes. I mentor a small handful of early-career engineers, quietly, never advertised.

I have a bachelor's in Computer Engineering from Tanta University.

The pattern across all of this is the same. I see the hidden architecture. Then I either master it or build it.