Full-Stack Web Developer — Cairo, Egypt

Seven years building production websites and the systems behind them. Laravel, CakePHP and plain-PHP back-ends; React, Next.js and Vue on the front; and bilingual Arabic/English interfaces where right-to-left is a first-class requirement rather than a dir="rtl" afterthought.

Much of my work is Arabic-language news, media and fact-checking platforms — more than twenty-five of them, newsrooms that need to publish fast, in Arabic, at scale. The rest is education, humanitarian and corporate work across Egypt, the Gulf, the UK and Australia.

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Over 100 Arabic financial calculators for Saudi Arabia, the Gulf and Egypt: salaries and end-of-service, Islamic loans and murabaha, zakat, gold at today's price, income and VAT, currency — plus health and everyday tools.

Search is the whole distribution channel, so the plumbing is part of the product: generated sitemap, RSS and Open Graph images, a glossary, category hubs, and seasonal landing pages that go up when the search volume does. It is an installable PWA with a service worker, so a calculator someone saved keeps working offline.

The platform behind six of the sites listed further down, Quds News Network and Maktoob Media among them: one Laravel application, one deploy, twenty-four Arabic news sites, each with its own theme, its own modules, its own languages and its own editorial team.

Every dangerous mistake a fleet makes is silent: a feature leaking to twenty-three other clients, a permission that exists on the route and nowhere else, a missing English string that renders in Arabic because the fallback locale is Arabic. So each of those has a command that fails, rather than a convention that holds. How it is put together.

After seven years of building newsrooms one at a time, the recurring problem was always the same: the client needs to edit their site, and every page builder destroys the design doing it.

Matn is the answer. The client opens their real page inside the admin panel, clicks a heading to rewrite it and clicks a photo to swap it. There is no page builder and no drag-and-drop — the design stays locked. Pages live in the database rather than as files, every page shares one layout, and no URL carries a .html extension.

A screenshot of a score proves nothing — it is a picture of one good run. The table below is re-measured every Monday by a GitHub Action that calls Google's PageSpeed Insights API and rewrites this section, whichever way the numbers moved that week. Paste the same URL into pagespeed.web.dev and you get the same report.

Each number is the median of three runs per device, because one run is not a measurement — the same page answered 90, 79 and 80 on mobile within minutes.

The bar is 90 in every category on both devices. Where a site is under it the number stays on the page until the site is fixed, because a table that only shows the good weeks is the screenshot problem again. The rest of the fleet is measured on the same schedule.

Arabic news and claim verification · Design and full-stack

Palestinian news network — high-volume Arabic newsroom · Design and full-stack

Field data (real Chrome users, 28-day rolling): FAST — LCP 1.78 s · INP 99 ms · CLS 0.00.

This profile's own site, hand-written HTML and CSS · Design and front-end, my own

_{Measured 12 October 2026 · Lighthouse 13.5.0 · raw results · workflow}

Four pieces of work where the interesting part was the diagnosis, written up with the numbers and the rejected ideas rather than only the wins.

Live sites, grouped by what they are. Role stated exactly as it was.

Back-end PHP 8 · Laravel · Livewire · CakePHP 5 · MySQL · WordPress · REST APIs · Composer · PHPUnit · PHPStan

Front-end JavaScript (ES6+) · TypeScript · React · Next.js · Vue 3 · SCSS · Tailwind · Bootstrap · jQuery · GSAP · AOS

Craft Arabic/English bilingual UI · RTL layout with logical properties · responsive from 375 px up · semantic HTML · accessible forms · Figma and XD to pixel-accurate markup · on-page SEO · PWAs that work offline

Tools Git · GitHub Actions · Figma · Adobe XD · Laragon · VS Code

Most client back-ends stay private. This is what I can show:

Open to remote full-stack and front-end work, contract or full-time — LinkedIn · Upwork · Mostaql