2015 to 2021
Work.
The full path.
Six employment chapters in chronological order. Two partnerships ongoing.
2018 to 2020
The office that moved money on a spreadsheet.
Junior developer and database administrator at a small financial office in Tanta. Two years owning the transactional MySQL layer, writing Python for ingestion and transformation, and building small desktop tools in Tkinter and PyQt that operations actually used. Two years that taught me the people who run the business at the end of the day deserve software that respects their time.
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Every industry speaks its own language. I learned to enter the room.
Full-stack developer at a software house. Worked across clinics, restaurants, retail, point-of-sale, and a clothing brand. The variety of contexts mattered. Each industry has its own assumptions about how software should behave, and I started to see the seams. Two years of learning to talk to operators in their own language and translate it back into a working system.
Read more2022 to 2024
Tickets are rented. Domains are owned.
Mid-level full-stack engineer. API-first thinking. Documentation discipline. The chapter where I stopped working on tickets and started owning domains. Reliability became my currency. By the end of these two years I could be handed a tangled service and produce a clear spec, a working refactor, and a deployment plan inside a week.
Read more2024 to present
Architecture in motion.
Senior software engineer and tech lead at a digital consultancy. I lead a four-person team building the firm's main SaaS platform, the agents inside it, and a set of bilingual civic apps that run on top. I own the platform's infrastructure, ecosystem, and integrations. I run in-house consultations on product development cooperations. This is where I started to operate at the architecture level by default.
Read more2025 to present
The standard is the obstacle. Not the geography.
Senior frontend-focused engineer at a US premium travel concierge company, remote from October City. Four hundred thirty five Jira tickets in my first year, across nine phases of work. I took the public-facing portal from a basic state into a full platform with ten plus major features. I architected and shipped two fully self-owned features: a Notion-style Trips Workspace and the Ascend Analytics dashboard. The year that proved I can land features at the speed and the standard a US startup actually needs.
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A creator does not need a website. He needs an ecosystem.
Long-running partnership with one of Egypt's most popular food recipe influencers. What started as a single website build has grown into an ecosystem of small purpose-built tools under his domain: a content directory cataloging every recipe he has published, a community platform, an online store, an AI cooking companion drawing on his corpus, and automations that took his manual social workflow off his plate. Two years and counting. The brief now is what should we build next.
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Bargaining is a feature, not a bug.
Smart marketplace MVP built for the Saudi Arabian market. Multi-seller storefronts with bilingual support and Saudi-specific payment integrations. A basic auction system designed for categories where bargaining is part of the cultural texture of buying. And the piece I find most interesting: a Product Price Intelligence module that aggregates pricing signals across the platform and surfaces them in a way that informs decisions without overwhelming the user. The MVP is live. The platform is next.
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