Amer Hamdan

1. 2023→ now

   Senior Full-Stack Developer / Team Lead

   ID8 Media · Istanbul, Türkiye

   Lead engineer across the agency portfolio — Go and TypeScript platform services, LLM infrastructure, AI agents, client dashboards, and large-scale hiring products.

   • Lead engineer on a large intelligence platform: Go services behind GraphQL, REST, and WebSocket APIs over PostgreSQL, with a bilingual Arabic/English Next.js dashboard.
   • Built an OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway routing five model providers behind a single token, with per-token usage metering, billing, and retrieval-augmented generation on pgvector.
   • Raised project success rate 25% by leading development teams through 5 complex, concurrent client builds.
   • Improved software efficiency 15% for news agencies by engineering tailored publishing and content-delivery solutions.
   • Built large-scale global hiring platforms handling multi-region job data and employer workflows.
   • Own the delivery pipeline across clients: architecture, code review, Terraform-managed GKE and Cloud Run deploys, and post-launch performance.

   • Go
   • TypeScript
   • Next.js
   • PostgreSQL
   • LLM infrastructure
   • AI agents
   • Google Cloud
2. 2021→ now

   Web Lead & Site Administrator

   Multifaith Alliance · New York, United States (remote)

   Rebuilt and now maintain the public platform for a US non-profit working across the MENA region.

   • Improved site performance 70% by rebuilding the entire site with Next.js and Tailwind CSS.
   • Migrated a legacy WordPress installation to a fully custom modern stack with no loss of content or search ranking.
   • Built dynamic page types and a reusable component system the non-profit's staff can extend without a developer.
   • Reworked SEO structure, page-load speed, responsive behaviour, and production deployment.

   • Next.js
   • Tailwind CSS
   • SEO
   • Migration
   • Core Web Vitals
3. 2020→ now

   Founder & CEO

   Amenu (SaaS) · Global

   Menu-management SaaS for restaurants, designed, built, and operated solo.

   • Grew to 1,000+ active users, demonstrating real market adoption without a sales team.
   • Shipped three major versions, each iterating on features, onboarding, and performance from live usage data.
   • Built and run the full stack independently — product, front end, back end, billing, infrastructure, and support.

   • SaaS
   • Product ownership
   • Full-stack
   • Multi-tenant
4. 2021→ 2023

   Head of Developers Team

   Orient News · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

   Led the engineering team behind the digital transformation of a major regional news agency.

   • Increased user engagement 30% by leading the development of a new website for a major news agency.
   • Boosted platform performance 30% by migrating the newsroom from native PHP to Laravel.
   • Built and led the development team from scratch, setting review standards and release process.
   • Owned the SEO strategy and content architecture, growing organic traffic and improving Core Web Vitals.

   • Laravel
   • PHP
   • Next.js
   • Technical SEO
   • Team building
5. 2016→ 2021

   Head of Developers

   Alpha Creative Agency · Istanbul, Türkiye

   Ran the programming team at a full-service creative agency.

   • Delivered 21+ production websites across client industries.
   • Led the programming team day to day, from scoping through delivery and handover.
   • Designed and implemented admin panels and front-end interfaces for clients with no in-house technical staff.

   • PHP
   • Team leadership
   • Admin systems
   • Front-end

Also, over the same years

1. 2020→ now

   SEO & Technical Consultant — Freelance

   Global

   Delivered comprehensive site status analyses for 100 clients, translating audits into ranked action lists.

2. 2020→ 2021

   Senior Consultant — Inhouse Global

   Istanbul, Türkiye

   Increased user engagement 30% by developing a fully functional website from scratch.

3. 2019→ 2020

   Full-Stack Web Developer — Job2Go Recruitment Agency

   Wales, United Kingdom

   Reduced downtime 30% by defining the site roadmap and establishing robust server infrastructure.

4. 2018→ 2019

   Full-Stack Web Developer — Questionnaire Connect

   United States (remote)

   Increased survey response rate 35% by developing a purpose-built web application for Questionnaire Connect®.

Languages

• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• Go
• PHP
• Python
• SQL
• Java

AI engineering

• LLM gateway architecture
• OpenAI-compatible APIs
• Multi-provider routing (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok, Ollama)
• Agent design & orchestration
• Multi-agent workflows
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• RAG (pgvector, pg_search)
• Embeddings & vector search
• Structured outputs & tool calling
• Streaming responses (SSE)
• Prompt engineering & evaluation
• Token metering & cost control
• Sentiment & entity extraction
• Machine translation

AI-assisted delivery

• Claude Code
• Cursor
• OpenAI Codex
• Gemini CLI
• MCP servers
• Agent-assisted refactoring & review
• Spec-driven development
• Repo conventions for coding agents

Backend

• Node.js
• Express.js
• Go (Cobra)
• Laravel (PHP)
• Strapi
• REST API design
• GraphQL
• WebSockets
• NATS
• Authentication
• Role & permission systems
• Caching

Frontend

• React
• Next.js (App Router)
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• shadcn/ui
• Material UI
• Responsive design
• Bilingual EN/AR & RTL
• Accessible layouts
• UI/UX

Data

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• MongoDB
• Firestore
• Prisma ORM
• pgvector
• Schema design
• Migrations

Cloud & DevOps

• Google Cloud Run
• Cloud Build
• Cloud Scheduler
• GKE / Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Docker
• Nginx
• PM2
• Linux server management
• CI/CD pipelines
• Git & GitHub

Practice

• Technical & on-page SEO
• Core Web Vitals
• Team leadership
• Monorepos
• Multi-tenant architecture
• Agile / Scrum
• Jira, Trello, Slack

Languages

ArabicNativeEnglishProfessional working proficiencyTurkishAdvanced