Hi, I’m Alaa.

I started in 2021 as a junior freelance developer. I built web apps for small businesses end to end — requirements, database design, implementation and deployment — in PHP, Laravel, Vue.js and MySQL. It was my first time working directly with clients: working out what they actually needed, shipping to deadlines and supporting what I’d delivered.

In 2022 I joined AL-MOTKAMEL Global Co. in Damascus as a core engineer on Minaret, a complete ERP platform rather than a single system. I worked on the shared core, not on isolated features, so every change had to hold across the whole platform. I worked the data layer at multi-million-row scale: composite indexes, partitioning, query rewrites, and heavy reporting moved into stored procedures. I also led the full redesign of Akar, a real-estate management system.

In 2024 I finished my degree in Information Technology Engineering at Al-Jazeera Private University and started a Master’s in Web Science & AI at the Syrian Virtual University. That year, at Be In Media, I took over an HR and payroll module that was producing wrong results and brought it to a stable state. I did it inside an established Laravel HMVC codebase, following the conventions already in place.

From May 2024 I freelanced for a year and delivered three production systems solo: a clinic management system, a transportation management platform and an enterprise CMS. I owned every stage, from requirements and schema design to deployment and post-launch support. My clients weren’t technical, so the job was turning how they actually worked into a system they could run themselves.

Since May 2025 I’ve owned the backend and AI layer of Muqnea, a live generation platform: Python microservices, queue-backed workers and a multi-agent pipeline where specialised agents hand off schema-validated output. Generation cost is down 82%. Three changes did that together: routing each step to the smallest model that passes its eval, caching stable prompt prefixes and running steps in parallel. First output now arrives in 15–30 seconds, with quality measured at 91% on our internal rubric.

For a year alongside that, I also led the front end of Pazar Pro, a multi-vendor marketplace, through to handover in August 2026. Today my focus is multi-agent LLM systems that run in production, measured with real numbers rather than impressions. I write down what actually works in Production Notes, a series I publish on LinkedIn in English and Arabic.