Beirut, late nights, a laptop, and a habit of reading the documentation before I touch the keyboard. I am a full-stack developer at Pixel38, where I own a shipment platform end-to-end and spend a fair amount of my week on the phone with clients explaining what is and is not worth building. I care about software that keeps working after the launch event, the kind that does not need a postmortem when the marketing team finally tweets about it.
The work I am hired for tends to span the whole stack. Backend services in TypeScript on Node, with Python and PHP when the room calls for it. Real-time systems that have to behave when traffic gets uneven. The occasional ops portal because someone has to look at the data when things go sideways. Lately I have been pulled toward AI tooling, where the interesting problem is rarely the model and almost always the boundary between the model and the database underneath it. That is what my open-source MCP servers are about, and it is where I have learned the most this year.
I came up rebuilding things that were already in production. I rewrote the invoice sync at Pixel38 onto a queue, moved retries off the request path, and watched the error rate fall. Before that, at SlashML, I built a Pulumi-driven system to provision EC2 on demand for LLM workloads. I have a B.Sc. from the Lebanese University and an AWS Cloud Practitioner cert, and I mention them here only because someone usually asks.
What I believe about software is small and unglamorous. Most production incidents are not caused by clever bugs; they are caused by something obvious that nobody wrote down. I would rather ship the boring version that runs for two years than the elegant version that runs for a quarter. I keep a Sunday afternoon for reading code I did not write, in languages I do not use at work, because it is the only way I have found to keep the field of view wide.
If you are hiring full-stack engineers, or you have a system that needs to be built carefully and finished honestly, I would like to hear about it. The email below works. I read every message, and I reply to most of them.