Amer Hamdan

Senior full-stack engineer and team lead with ten years building production web platforms across intelligence, news, recruitment, and commerce. Currently lead engineer on a multi-product platform written in Go and TypeScript — GraphQL, REST, and WebSocket APIs over PostgreSQL, an OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway with retrieval-augmented generation and per-token billing, and bilingual Arabic/English dashboards, all deployed to GKE and Cloud Run. Designs and ships AI agent systems, and works agent-first day to day with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI. Earlier work was mostly legacy migration: PHP to Laravel, WordPress to Next.js, with measurable gains in performance and engagement each time.

1. Senior Full-Stack Developer / Team Lead

   ID8 Media · Istanbul, Türkiye · 2023 — Present

   • 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.

2. Web Lead & Site Administrator

   Multifaith Alliance · New York, United States (remote) · 2021 — Present

   • 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.

3. Founder & CEO

   Amenu (SaaS) · Global · 2020 — Present

   • 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.

4. Head of Developers Team

   Orient News · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2021 — 2023

   • 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.

5. Head of Developers

   Alpha Creative Agency · Istanbul, Türkiye · 2016 — 2021

   • 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.

6. SEO & Technical Consultant

   Freelance · Global · 2020 — Present

   • Delivered comprehensive site status analyses for 100 clients, translating audits into ranked action lists.
   • Improved client execution efficiency 15% by replacing vague audit reports with prioritised, detailed to-do lists.
   • Ongoing technical and on-page SEO work: crawlability, structure, speed, and search visibility.

7. Senior Consultant

   Inhouse Global · Istanbul, Türkiye · 2020 — 2021

   • Increased user engagement 30% by developing a fully functional website from scratch.
   • Managed network infrastructure and server requirements alongside the application itself.
   • Maintained the site, resolved production issues, and trained internal users on the system.

8. Full-Stack Web Developer

   Job2Go Recruitment Agency · Wales, United Kingdom · 2019 — 2020

   • Reduced downtime 30% by defining the site roadmap and establishing robust server infrastructure.
   • Increased production efficiency 15% by introducing the tooling and systems the team was missing.
   • Contributed to hiring and onboarding new team members as the company scaled.

9. Full-Stack Web Developer

   Questionnaire Connect · United States (remote) · 2018 — 2019

   • Increased survey response rate 35% by developing a purpose-built web application for Questionnaire Connect®.
   • Cut roughly $20,000 from feedback-collection costs by distributing 5,000 surveys online instead of on paper.
   • Improved how providers collect, store, and analyse patient treatment feedback.

1. MaestroAutonomous agent pipeline, Arabic-first

   Independent · 2026 — Present

   An autonomous AI social-media agency for the Arabic market. Agents research, plan, write, and schedule a brand's output end to end, with a human approving rather than authoring.

   Stack: TypeScript, AI agents, LLM orchestration, PostgreSQL, Next.js, RTL

2. Medhat PashaMulti-tenant commerce SaaS, built solo

   Independent · 2026 — Present

   Multi-tenant e-commerce platform for the Syrian market — a single engine powering unlimited Arabic storefronts, built for merchants with no technical staff and tuned for slow connections.

   Stack: TypeScript, Next.js, Express, Multi-tenant, Monorepo, RTL

3. Social listening dashboardsHourly ingestion across three platforms

   ID8 Media · 2025 — 2026

   Media-monitoring dashboards that ingest X, Instagram, and Facebook and surface sentiment, trending topics, and emerging hashtags for communications teams.

   Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Firebase, Sentiment analysis, Cloud Scheduler

4. Social API engine simulatorUnblocked front-end work with no live feed

   ID8 Media · 2025

   A generator that produces realistic social posts, usernames, metrics, and timestamps from Gemini, so dashboards and pipelines could be built and demoed before any live data existed.

   Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Gemini, Firebase, shadcn/ui

5. YOHO WorksFront end and API, ~200 commits

   ID8 Media · 2025

   Global hiring platform covering multi-region job data, employer workflows, and candidate matching, delivered as a Next.js front end against a TypeScript API.

   Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, REST APIs

6. Reson8Six repositories, front to back

   ID8 Media · 2023 — Present

   Media platform spanning a client panel, admin tooling, an elections API, and serverless functions, later re-architected onto Go with its own database and message bus.

   Stack: TypeScript, Go, Next.js, Firebase, PHP

7. bluHubFive surfaces on one content backend

   ID8 Media · 2024 — 2025

   Multi-surface platform for an organisation: public site, a Strapi-backed CMS its staff run themselves, an admin panel, a REST API, and a separate jobs portal.

   Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Strapi, Node.js, CMS

8. Cuties Baby StoreLive storefront plus social publishing

   Independent · 2026 — Present

   Arabic-first online store for baby and infant products, serving Damascus and the wider Syrian market, with a connected social layer that publishes straight to Facebook and Instagram.

   Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Meta API, PM2, GA4, RTL

9. MarasidTwo languages, two editorial workflows

   ID8 Media · 2024 — 2025

   Bilingual Arabic and English publication platform: a Next.js front end over Strapi, with a separate CMS instance per language so each editorial team works independently.

   Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Strapi, Bilingual, RTL

10. Notification ForwarderPublic repository, no hardcoded secrets

    Open source · 2026

    A self-hosted Android app that forwards your own phone's SMS, call events, and app notifications to a Telegram chat you control — for reading a spare, travel, or backup device without picking it up.

    Stack: Java, Android, Telegram API, Open source

11. Orient News Platform+30% engagement · +30% platform performance

    Orient News · 2021 — 2023

    Full digital transformation of a regional news agency: legacy native PHP rebuilt on Laravel, then a Next.js front end on top for speed and search.

    Stack: Laravel, PHP, Next.js, React, SEO

12. Multifaith Alliance+70% site performance

    2021 — Present

    Complete rebuild of a US non-profit's public platform, moving from WordPress to a custom Next.js and Tailwind stack with a reusable component system.

    Stack: Next.js, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript, Migration, SEO

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

Arabic (Native) · English (Professional working proficiency) · Turkish (Advanced)