Amer Hamdan

Senior full-stack engineer and team lead with ten years building and rebuilding production web platforms across news, recruitment, healthcare research, and SaaS. Leads small teams through legacy migrations — PHP to Laravel, WordPress to Next.js — and ships the result with measurable gains in performance, engagement, and delivery rate. Comfortable owning the whole path: data model, API, interface, cloud deployment, and the SEO and Core Web Vitals work that decides whether anyone finds the product at all.

1. Senior Full-Stack Developer / Team Lead

   ID8 Media · Istanbul, Türkiye · 2023 — Present

   • 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 for multi-client sites: architecture, code review, deployment, 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. 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

2. 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

3. Amenu1,000+ active users

   Independent · 2020 — Present

   Menu-management SaaS for restaurants. Built solo end to end and iterated across three major versions based on how real venues actually used it.

   Stack: SaaS, Node.js, Product, Multi-tenant

4. Global Hiring Platforms+25% project success rate across 5 builds

   ID8 Media · 2023 — Present

   Large-scale recruitment platforms handling multi-region job data, employer workflows, and candidate matching, delivered alongside multi-client site operations.

   Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Google Cloud Run, Docker

Backend:

Node.js, Express.js, Laravel (PHP), Strapi, RESTful API design, Authentication, Role & permission systems, Caching

Frontend:

TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, HTML5, CSS3, Responsive design, UI/UX, shadcn/ui, Material UI, REST API integration

Data:

MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Prisma ORM, Schema design

Cloud & DevOps:

Google Cloud Run, Google Cloud Build, Docker, Linux server management, Nginx, CI/CD pipelines, Git, GitHub

AI Integration:

LLM API integration, AI-assisted product features, Workflow automation, AI-assisted development tooling

Practice:

Technical & on-page SEO, Core Web Vitals, Team leadership, Agile / Scrum, Accessible layouts, Jira, Trello, Slack

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