Full-stack software engineer
A full-stack engineer, open source contributor, and three-time ACPC finalist who also happens to be a chess enthusiast and football player. This is a curated look at the work, the contests, and the communities that shaped that journey.
Each entry connects a decision to an outcome: a project, a role, a contest, or a mentoring moment that shaped how I think and build.
ICPC Community at Zagazig University · Mar 2022 – Aug 2024
This chapter was about turning experience into leverage for other people. In the ICPC Community at Zagazig University, the work was not just explaining algorithms. It was helping teams build contest instincts, writing problems, and making weekly practice feel like a repeatable system.
ACPC Competition
Qualifying for the ACPC finals three times made competitive programming more than a side activity. It became long-form training in reading under pressure, choosing the right algorithm, and explaining an idea to a team quickly and clearly.
Cairo, Egypt
At SciCave, I worked on real web applications where a screen working locally was only the beginning. The role connected React, Next.js, Laravel, Cypress, Docker, and AWS with requirements work, UI decisions, testing, and deployment.
NASA Space Apps in Ismailia
With team Pyroguardians, the challenge was turning a fast idea into something presentable and credible. Third place and a global nomination were not just results. They were proof that the team could narrow the idea and build under real time pressure.
IEEE
IEEEXtreme was a different kind of test: long hours, many problems, and constant decisions between speed and accuracy. Reaching the top 15 in Egypt out of 198 teams made the experience a clear marker of technical discipline.
ZagEng Team
At ZagEng, automation became a way to remove repeated work, not just a technical experiment. I led the IT committee in building 13+ Telegram bots and a Django dashboard, then connected them with Make.com flows to serve students faster.
Arabi.js started as a question about language, tooling, and who gets to feel at home while programming. I used Babel's parser ecosystem to translate Arabic keywords and identifiers into valid JavaScript, turning a language experiment into a working developer tool.
Future note: The project is quiet publicly for now, but there are pending development plans. Expect stronger language support and a more polished writing experience when the next update lands.
Open project
Rasm was my early attempt to make mathematical ideas visible and programmable. It combines function plotting, geometric drawing, animation, and a custom expression language, which made it a serious exercise in parsing, rendering, and interface design.
Future note: There are still pending development plans for Rasm. The next chapter is meant to make the expression system and visual output feel much more capable.
Open project
Only the two newest posts live here, so the homepage stays a story rather than an archive.
March 15, 2024
How I started competitive programming, the challenges I faced, and becoming an ACPC finalist.
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The story behind building Arabi.js, a tool that allows writing JavaScript using Arabic keywords.
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