Senior Backend Engineer with 6+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling PHP/Laravel systems for merchant-focused platforms — including invoicing, e-commerce integrations, on-demand services, and rental marketplaces. Proven track record designing RESTful APIs, integrating payment gateways and third-party services (Salla, Zid, Foodics, Moyasar), and optimizing high-traffic transactional backends with queues, caching, and modular architecture. Strong advocate of SOLID principles, clean code, database optimization, and test-driven delivery. Experienced mentoring developers and leading backend delivery across cross-functional teams.
Selected Work
Selected merchant & transaction-focused projects — invoicing platforms, AI SaaS, on-demand marketplaces, rental systems, and 30+ production Laravel applications across Saudi Arabia and beyond.
Almusanid (Fatoorah) • Saudi Arabia • 2023 – Present (Remote)
- Architect and maintain Fatoorah — a large-scale merchant invoicing & financial platform serving thousands of merchants across Saudi Arabia.
- Built and scaled dual-backend architecture (admin + client) with modular domains: POS, Inventory/Stocks, Accounting, HRM, Recruitment, and e-commerce sync.
- Designed secure RESTful APIs for invoice lifecycle, product catalog, stock management, and merchant onboarding.
- Integrated payment gateways (Moyasar, Tap Pay, My Fatoorah, HyperPay) and e-commerce platforms (Salla, Zid).
- Implemented ZATCA e-invoicing compliance (QR codes, XML signing, merchant tax validation).
- Optimized legacy codebases; introduced queue-based jobs, Laravel Octane, and Redis for high-volume transaction processing.
- Led backend task delegation, code reviews, and mentored mid-level developers on Laravel best practices.
- Key Project — AISass: AI-powered operations platform with Foodics POS integration, webhook-driven integrations, and GPU orchestrator APIs.
Freelance • 2022 – Present
- Saghnoon (Barber Platform): End-to-end on-demand barber/home salon marketplace with dual REST APIs, Moyasar payments, ZATCA invoicing, and wallet/settlement flows.
- Muthlth (Triangle): Rental marketplace with product catalog, order lifecycle APIs, Bavix Wallet, versioned REST APIs (v1/v2), and Swagger documentation.
Technicall Kokaba (Constellation Tech) • Saudi Arabia • 2020 – 2023 (Remote)
- Delivered 30+ production Laravel applications for healthcare, legal, food ordering, POS, and CRM domains across the Saudi market.
- Served as technical lead / project manager: task planning, backend architecture decisions, progress tracking, and team feedback.
- Refactored legacy systems to improve maintainability, query performance, and deployment stability.
- Designed relational database schemas for complex domains (medical records, legal case management, inventory).
- Integrated PayPal and external APIs; collaborated with frontend teams on Livewire and Vue.js/Inertia SPAs.
- Representative Projects: Talabatk, Al-Atheeb Clinic, Ithaq, Place Rating, POS (Cashier), and multiple clinic/hospital/HR/CRM systems.
Hsoub Academy • London • 2019 – Present (Remote, Part-Time)
- Mentor aspiring developers on programming fundamentals, Laravel, and real-world backend problem solving.
- Design practical assessments; provide code quality feedback and guidance on industry best practices.
Atyaf • Palestine • 2017 – 2020
- Built responsive, cross-browser websites from Adobe XD designs (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
- Collaborated with backend teams; foundation for full-stack delivery and API integration understanding.
2017 - 2022
Al-Azhar University, Gaza, Palestine
2020
SkyGaze Academy
Advanced Laravel architecture, security, database management, and performance optimization.