HEY, I’MTAREKELSAYED
I design the database, write the API, and polish the last pixel. Six years shipping products people actually use.
Open to new work — Cairo · Remote
SELECTED WORK · 2019 — 2026
PRODUCTS I BUILT
END TO END
PAYLO
A payments platform for 40k Egyptian merchants. I led the rebuild from a PHP monolith to a typed Node + Next.js stack.
- Role
- Lead full-stack
- Year
- 2025
- Stack
- Next.js · Node · Postgres · Redis
- Result
- Checkout 3.1s → 0.9s
HOW I WORK
I DON’T JUST
WRITE CODE.
I SHIP PRODUCTS.
From the first schema to the last loading state — one person who owns the whole thing.
WHO YOU GET
THREE SIDES
OF ONE DEV
THE BUILDER
Product brain. I cut scope, ship the MVP, and measure what moves.
- Next.js
- React Native
- Stripe
BEYOND THE CODE
A LITTLE
MORE ABOUT ME
Boring tech,
shipped beautifully.
Mizan v2 — invoicing for freelancers
Rust, slowly and painfully
Designing Data-Intensive Apps (again)
Cairo, Egypt
countries — EG · SA · AE · DE · UK · US · NL · QA …
SIX YEARS IN
THE RECEIPTS
years shipping
products launched
end users served
clients who came back
Lead Full-stack Engineer
PayloOwn payments core + web platform. Team of 6.
Senior Engineer
Nakl LogisticsReal-time fleet tracking, 12k drivers.
Full-stack Developer
FreelanceProducts for clients in 9 countries.
Frontend Developer
SahlGov-tech forms used by 300k citizens.
WORK WITH ME
PICK YOUR
ENGAGEMENT
From $6,000
6 weeks
Idea → launched product. Web or mobile, auth, payments, admin.
- Product scoping
- Design system
- Full-stack build
- Launch + 2 weeks support
$3,500 / mo
Ongoing
A senior engineer in your team two days a week.
- Architecture reviews
- Hiring + code review
- Roadmap + estimates
- Weekly sync
From $1,800
1–2 weeks
Your app is slow, buggy or stuck. I find out why and fix it.
- Performance audit
- Security pass
- Written report
- Fix plan with costs
KIND WORDS
PEOPLE I’VE
SHIPPED WITH
Tarek rebuilt our checkout in six weeks. Conversion went up 22% and the pager finally went quiet.
The rare engineer who pushes back on the spec — and is usually right. We’d hire him again tomorrow.
He explained every trade-off in plain English. Our non-technical board loved him.
FROM THE BLOG
NOTES FROM
THE TRENCHES
Why we moved 40k merchants off a monolith without downtime
ARCHITECTUREPostgres row-level security for multi-tenant SaaS, a field guide
DATABASESThe MVP is a promise, not a prototype
PRODUCTReact Native in 2026: what I would and wouldn’t do again
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