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Work
What I work on now at Tern, then earlier projects by year. Open a row for the summary, my role, and the stack.
Tern: Rent Payments That Earn Rewards
Lead Backend Engineer, Sep 2026 to now; Senior Backend Engineer, Sep 2025 to Sep 2026
I rebuilt the payments core of a Dubai rent payments platform: charges, refunds, payouts, and rent in installments. Hundreds of millions of dirhams in rent went through it.
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Senior, then Lead Backend Engineer at Tern in Dubai. Rebuilt core payments (processing, refunds, payouts, provider integrations), automated the release pipeline, built the end-to-end suite that guards every release, and own backend architecture and production reliability.
Role: Lead Backend Engineer, Sep 2026 to now; Senior Backend Engineer, Sep 2025 to Sep 2026
Stack and skills: FinTech, Payment Processing, System Architecture, API Integration, Node.js, PostgreSQL, System Security
Earlier projects
- 2025
DeserTracker: A Price Tracker for UAE Shoppers
My own product: a UAE price tracker with a browser extension, price history, and drop, target, and restock alerts. 1.6M+ products and 12M+ price points tracked.
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Founded and built DeserTracker alone: a UAE price tracker with a web app and a Chrome and Firefox extension. Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL with a Postgres job queue, per-store fetchers, and LLM fallback parsing. 1.6M+ products and 12M+ price points tracked.
Role: Founder & Sole Engineer
Stack and skills: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Next.js, Browser Extensions, Web Scraping, LLM Integration
- 2024
YSpot Youth Jobs Platform
A jobs platform for young people: applications, assessments, courses, and AI tools for CVs and job posts. I led the backend and presented it at Sheraa, AUS.
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Led the YSpot backend on PostgreSQL, with a Next.js front end: job posts and applications, assessments, upskilling courses, moderation, and AI tools for CVs, cover letters, and job descriptions. Presented at Sheraa, American University of Sharjah.
Role: Backend Developer & Team Lead
Stack and skills: PostgreSQL, Next.js, LLM Integration
- 2023
forK12: School Registration, End to End
I architected forK12, where parents in the UAE apply to schools in one flow: ID verification, fees with payment splitting, and video meetings with the school.
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Architected forK12 and led its backend in Node.js and PostgreSQL, with a React Native app for iOS and Android. One registration flow holds ID scanning and verification, payments with splitting, interview scheduling, video meetings, and a moderation dashboard.
Role: Lead Software Engineer
Stack and skills: Node.js, PostgreSQL, React Native, Payment Integration, Third-party API Integration
- 2023
MPAC Sports Academy App
A social app for athletes in the UAE and Africa: posts, chat, and video. I led the backend in Node.js and PostgreSQL, with video encoding and HLS streaming.
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Led the backend of the MPAC Sports app in Node.js and PostgreSQL, with a Flutter mobile app: in-app chat, photo and video posts, video encoding with HLS streaming, and moderator tools.
Role: Backend Developer & Team Lead
Stack and skills: Node.js, PostgreSQL, Flutter, Video Encoding, HLS
- 2022
Ekhtibary: Arabic Assessments for 1,000+ Students at Once
I built the Ekhtibary backend from scratch on PostgreSQL. It ran a live test with 1,000+ concurrent students, then gained an AI portal for assessment generation.
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Built the Ekhtibary assessment backend from scratch on PostgreSQL, with a React front end, and led the team. It ran a live test with 1,000+ concurrent students. Later designed its AI portal: assessment generation, voice cloning, and dynamic reporting.
Role: Backend Developer & Team Lead
Stack and skills: PostgreSQL, React, Data Analytics, SQL
- 2022
Orphans Management System
A records system for a charity that supports orphans: guardianship, home visits, assistance, and a full audit log. I was the sole developer, in Laravel and MySQL.
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Sole developer of an orphan care records system for a charity in PHP Laravel, Blade, and MySQL: orphan and guardian records, guardian changes and interviews, home visit notes, assistance history, an archive, role-based access, and an audit log.
Role: Sole Developer
Stack and skills: PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Role-based Access Control, Audit Logging
- 2022
Arabee Learning App
A platform that teaches Arabic to children with games, videos, songs, and books. I maintained and extended it, and rebuilt the website on Next.js with a headless CMS.
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Maintained and extended the arabeeLearning platform in Flutter, Firebase, and Next.js: new features, upgrades, and fixes across web and mobile. Rebuilt the website on Next.js with a headless CMS.
Role: Backend Developer & Team Lead
Stack and skills: Flutter, Firebase, Next.js, Headless CMS
- 2021
Match App for the Arabic Community
A match app for Arabic and Muslim users who want serious relationships: ID verification, moderation, and real-time chat on WebSockets and Redis.
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Built the React Native UI of a match app for the Arabic community, and contributed to the backend (WebSockets with Redis). The app had real-time chat, ID verification, and moderation. It did not go live.
Role: Full Stack Developer
Stack and skills: Node.js, React Native, Redis, WebSocket
- 2021
Intelligent Cryptocurrency Trading Assistant
My senior project at university: a trading agent trained with reinforcement learning on prices and technical indicators, plus NLP sentiment from social media.
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Built the backend and the model logic of a cryptocurrency trading assistant: reinforcement learning on historical prices and technical indicators, BERT and VADER sentiment on social media, and a Flask API. Senior project at Arab International University.
Role: Core Developer
Stack and skills: Python, TensorFlow, Reinforcement Learning, NLP, Flask
- 2021
Agricultural Information Management System (AIMS)
An agricultural data system for the UN and FAO Africa across the SADC countries. I was the sole developer: Node.js, PostgreSQL, React, and a mobile app.
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Sole developer of an agricultural information system for the UN and FAO Africa across the Southern African Development Community: Node.js, PostgreSQL, and React, with data sync between modules, role-based access, reports, and a mobile app for field workers.
Role: Sole Developer
Stack and skills: Node.js, PostgreSQL, React, Role-based Access Control, Mobile Application
- 2020
Elixir Framework UI Overhaul
I rebuilt the UI of the Elixir enterprise framework in React. Pages now render from metadata instead of generated HTML and load about 15% faster.
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Sole developer of the React UI for the Elixir framework, which generates three-tier enterprise applications from UML models. Replaced server-side HTML generation with metadata-driven rendering in React, for about 15% faster page loads.
Role: Sole Developer
Stack and skills: React, Java, Dynamic Rendering, Elixir Framework
- 2020
Domain-Based Auto-Archiving System
A university project that reads scanned Arabic documents into structured records: OpenCV cleanup, Tesseract OCR, and Solr fuzzy search to correct the results.
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Wrote the core logic of an auto-archiving system for scanned Arabic documents in Java: OpenCV preprocessing, Marvin segmentation, Tesseract OCR, templates per document layout, and Solr fuzzy search to correct extracted values.
Role: Core Developer
Stack and skills: Java, OpenCV, Tesseract OCR, Solr, Marvin Framework
- 2019
Integrated Social Protection Information Management System (ISPMIS)
A social protection information system for the UN and UNICEF Syria. I was the sole developer: Java, JSF, MySQL, and a mobile app for field workers.
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Sole developer of a social protection information system for the UN and UNICEF Syria in Java, JSF, and MySQL: a central registry, an API for data exchange between subsystems, role-based access, reports, and a mobile app for field workers.
Role: Sole Developer
Stack and skills: Java, JSF, MySQL, API Integration, Role-based Access Control, Mobile Application
- 2018
Social Case Management for UNICEF
As the sole developer, I built a social case management system for the UN and UNICEF in Java, JSF, and MySQL: one secure record per case, shared across subsystems.
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Sole developer of a social case management system for the UN and UNICEF: Java, JSF, and MySQL, an API that keeps subsystems in sync, a mobile app, and role-based access. Part of the UNICEF social protection work that served 5,000+ beneficiaries.
Role: Sole Developer
Stack and skills: Java, JSF, MySQL, API Integration, Data Security, User Authentication, Role-based Access Control, Mobile Application
