Software engineer · Cairo · Remote
The product
A money app for Egypt and the Gulf. You write what you spent in plain language, or photograph the receipt, and it fills in the form. Nothing saves until you confirm it. It counts gold by gram and karat, which is how gold is actually bought there and what no off-the-shelf library does.
Nine screens. Pick one, or follow the arrows on Home.
Hekta is at the top of this page. Three more below, and most of that code is private because it holds client data and pricing.
A handmade bukhoor brand in Madinaty. I built the storefront, the design system, and a WhatsApp bot that answers customers and closes the order inside Shopify. The whole project carries one external dependency. Everything else is the Node standard library.
A tourist landing in Luxor has no idea what the ride into town should cost, so the price gets negotiated at the curb. Horus quotes it before you book. Confirmation goes to WhatsApp. There is no email field anywhere in the product.
A landing page for an Egyptian finishing contractor. The building in the hero is drawn rather than photographed, a gold wireframe that assembles itself line by line. Four moments of motion in the whole page, counted and budgeted.
Gold weight and value in karats and grams, 24K down to 10K. Pulled out of Hekta because no library does it.
MIT · 10 tests · zero dependencies
Type styling for React Native where fonts must load by PostScript name per weight
and letterSpacing has to be zeroed, because negative tracking breaks
the joins between letters.
The claim at the top of the page, itemised.
The app, the web front end, the schema, the functions that run on the edge, and the container the whole thing ships in. Four products, no team.
A pre-launch pass over Hekta turned up five problems the documentation already claimed were finished. Deleting an account never revoked the Apple token. Free quota counters never reset. All five are closed, and that pass is the reason the app is still pre-submission instead of on the store.
The app, the web front end, the schema, the migrations, the Edge Functions, the DNS, and the container it ships in. When the database needs a column, I add it in the same afternoon the screen needs it.
Every sensitive call runs server side from an Edge Function. The anonymous key that ships in the app has never had access to anything a stranger could spend.
Everything here is running in something above.
Cairo, working remote, in Arabic or English.