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about_me.md
HM

Hisham Medhat

AI fullstack engineer. Laravel, NestJS, Hono, Django, FastAPI, and the infrastructure underneath them.
Alexandria, Egypt · B.Sc. Computers and Data Science, 3.6 GPA
## uptime
3 years shipping backends
## scale
200,000+ user LMS platform
## cost
−80% monthly cloud spend
## tests
500+ PHPUnit integration tests
root@hisham:~$ cat skills.txt
languages
Python Java PHP Go JavaScript
frameworks
Laravel NestJS FastAPI React Vue Tailwind jQuery GraphQL
infra & cloud
AWS GCP Azure Hetzner Docker CI/CD Git
data & observability
PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis Grafana Loki
root@hisham:~$ git log --experience
GameIN Backend Engineer, Full-time Feb 2025 – Present · Dubai, UAE
  • Built a Hono/Bun observability platform ingesting telemetry from 15+ production services with real-time Slack alerts, request enrichment, and product-level analytics.
  • Architected enterprise metaverse backends using NestJS, Prisma, and PostgreSQL, supporting SAML SSO, multiplayer sessions, mini-games, Stripe billing, and E2E testing.
  • Integrated Sharjah Municipality property systems through NestJS SOAP/XML middleware with UAE Pass authentication for citizen services.
  • Delivered the Zayed University Metaverse platform with SAML SSO, interactive learning workflows, and automated test coverage.
  • Shipped supporting backend services including a widget API, GeoIP URL shortener, and session management APIs using Hono/Bun and Drizzle ORM.
  • Reduced monthly cloud costs by 80% across AWS, Azure, and Railway while deploying Umami analytics across company websites.
  • Standardized backend delivery practices with PR workflows, code reviews, GitHub Actions CI/CD, and automated testing across projects.
Sedra Backend Engineer, Part-time Feb 2025 – Present · Remote
  • Architected a multi-tenant Laravel SaaS backend with Spatie Teams, request-scoped guards, and repository-level filters for strict tenant data isolation.
  • Provisioned production infrastructure on Hetzner using FrankenPHP, Laravel Octane, PostgreSQL, Redis, Supervisor, and Cloudflare Origin TLS.
  • Automated GitHub Actions CI/CD with Tailscale SSH, zero-downtime Octane reloads, and post-deployment health checks.
  • Delivered core SaaS modules including profiles, class scheduling, subscriptions, RBAC, dashboards, reports, and in-app notifications.
  • Collaborated with frontend engineers to define API contracts and OpenAPI documentation across tenant-facing workflows.
Sprints Software Engineer, Full-time Sep 2024 – Feb 2025 · Cairo, Egypt
  • Maintained and refactored a Laravel MVC-based LMS platform serving 200,000+ users, improving scalability, maintainability, and legacy code quality.
  • Optimized critical database paths by eliminating redundant queries and improving data access patterns, significantly reducing per-request load.
  • Reduced CI build and deployment time by 75% through pipeline optimization, faster feedback loops, and improved release reliability.
  • Led development of AIAT, a full-stack AI course-generation platform using React, FastAPI, Django, and MongoDB.
  • Architected Docker-based infrastructure and observability tooling using Grafana, Loki, logging, monitoring, and alerting across development, staging, and production environments.
MawaredHR Backend Engineer, Full-time Aug 2023 – Aug 2024 · Alexandria, Egypt
  • Designed an automated overtime engine with configurable rates, intervals, rounding rules, completed work-hour calculations, and customizable limits.
  • Built smart attendance policies that automatically penalize tardiness, no-shows, missed sign-outs, early departures, and absences based on configurable rules.
  • Developed leave adjustment workflows enabling administrators to modify employee leave balances with full audit tracking.
  • Optimized SQL queries and database indexing in the internal CRM, doubling query throughput and reducing page load times across reporting workflows.
  • Wrote 500+ PHPUnit integration tests covering attendance, overtime, leave, and penalty workflows, improving regression detection before deployment.
  • Delivered Laravel and MySQL backend features with GraphQL APIs and Sentry monitoring, supporting 10,000+ active users.
Sint Backend Engineer, Part-time Feb 2024 – Sep 2024 · Alexandria, Egypt
  • Developed Sint’s AI recruiting platform using Laravel, Domain-Driven Design, and Test-Driven Development practices.
  • Integrated OpenAI APIs to power AI-driven recruiting workflows, candidate evaluation features, and automated report generation.
  • Designed and optimized MySQL schemas for data-intensive recruiting workflows, improving query performance and platform reliability.
root@hisham:~$ cat education.txt
Bachelor of Computers and Data Science 3.6 GPA Alexandria University Oct 2020 – Jun 2024
root@hisham:~$ gh repo list --source → all repos
portpeek Rust MIT site →
A Windows tray app that shows what is listening on your local ports and frees a busy one in a click.
drizzle-i18n TypeScript MIT docs →
Type-safe i18n for Drizzle ORM — translation tables and JSON columns for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.
postgresql mysql sqlite internationalization orm
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