Every place I've written backends for.

6 roles, from an ERP internship to the authority that regulates valuation in Saudi Arabia — in full, with what I did at each one.

  1. Nov 2023 — Present Now

    Taqeem

    Senior Backend Developer

    Saudi Authority for Accredited Valuers · Riyadh, KSA (Remote) 1 project
    • Develop and maintain multiple Laravel platforms in Taqeem's ecosystem, which regulates the valuation profession in Saudi Arabia, serving ~50K users and 2M+ valuation reports.
    • Built the Professional Certificate membership track for applicants without postgraduate degrees: rule-based eligibility, a multi-stage workflow (review, payment, approval), and automatic membership activation with access to the platform's courses.
    • Designed the Fellowship membership tier with a 5-year renewal cycle and configurable eligibility rules, plus renewal gating that requires members inactive in their studies to complete a remedial course before renewing.
    • Built the gemstone valuation request module, extending the valuation request lifecycle to a new asset class.
    • Improved performance of high-traffic endpoints through database indexing, caching, and moving heavy processing to queues.

    PHP / Laravel / MySQL / Caching / Queues / Database indexing

  2. Jan 2021 — Oct 2023

    CAT

    Senior Backend Developer (Backend Lead)

    Advertising Agency · Cairo, Egypt 4 projects
    • Acted as lead backend developer across client projects: owned the backend end-to-end, broke down and assigned tasks, and coordinated with the tech lead, project manager, and clients for a squad of backend, frontend, QA, and UI/UX.
    • Built NovoCare, an in-pharmacy live support system: customers use an in-store tablet to reach support agents via real-time chat, voice, or video (Twilio). Also built the agent-side support console and post-session customer ratings.
    • Built the backend for VYA, a real-time auction platform: live bidding and chat with Laravel, Redis, and Socket.IO, an in-app wallet topped up with mada cards via EdfaPay, and shipping integration with OTO (KSA).
    • Deployed and maintained self-hosted BigBlueButton servers (Ubuntu, Nginx, SSL) for client virtual-classroom platforms, and extended them with a custom live chat built on JavaScript and Socket.IO.
    • Built Catalyst, an internal management platform serving web and mobile clients from a single Laravel API, streamlining workflows between sales, procurement, and management. Also delivered a GraphQL API for a separate client project.

    PHP / Laravel / MySQL / Redis / Socket.IO / Twilio / BigBlueButton / EdfaPay (mada) / OTO / GraphQL

  3. Nov 2018 — Jan 2021

    AWStreams

    Senior PHP Developer

    Digital Agency · Cairo, Egypt 2 projects
    • Designed and built secure RESTful APIs with JWT authentication for the OZZ mobile app, and deployed it on AWS using RDS and S3 for database and file storage.
    • Developed Laravel platforms Dxpo (for companies) and Smrt.Cards (for individuals), and set up BigBlueButton for video conferencing features.
    • Integrated Firebase Cloud Messaging for real-time push notifications across mobile apps.

    PHP / Laravel / MySQL / JWT / AWS (RDS / S3) / BigBlueButton / Firebase Cloud Messaging

  4. Nov 2017 — Nov 2018

    ITQAN

    PHP Developer

    Software House · Cairo, Egypt 1 project
    • Built 3 web applications with Laravel and Vue.js, including integration with the Google Books API.

    PHP / Laravel / Vue.js / Google Books API / MySQL

  5. Nov 2016 — Feb 2017

    Canyon Travel

    Junior PHP Developer

    Travel Agency · Cairo, Egypt Company page
    • Built a web application for booking tourist trips, Hajj and Umrah packages.

    PHP / Laravel / MySQL

  6. Apr 2015 — Sep 2015

    HotSoft EG

    Intern

    Software House · 6th of October City, Egypt Company page
    • Supported clients using the company's ERP system and installed it for new customers.
    • Built a new interface for the ERP.

    ERP / HTML / CSS

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