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    "name": "Amer Hamdan",
    "label": "Senior Full-Stack Engineer · Tech Lead · AI-Product Development",
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    "email": "amer.m.hamdan@gmail.com",
    "phone": "+90 553 327 11 00",
    "url": "https://amerhamdan.com",
    "summary": "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.",
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      "city": "Istanbul",
      "region": "Istanbul",
      "countryCode": "TR"
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      "name": "ID8 Media",
      "position": "Senior Full-Stack Developer / Team Lead",
      "location": "Istanbul, Türkiye",
      "startDate": "2023-01",
      "summary": "Lead engineer across the agency's product portfolio — multi-client platforms, newsroom tooling, and large-scale hiring products.",
      "highlights": [
        "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."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Multifaith Alliance",
      "position": "Web Lead & Site Administrator",
      "location": "New York, United States (remote)",
      "url": "https://multifaithalliance.org",
      "startDate": "2021-01",
      "summary": "Rebuilt and now maintain the public platform for a US non-profit working across the MENA region.",
      "highlights": [
        "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."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Amenu (SaaS)",
      "position": "Founder & CEO",
      "location": "Global",
      "startDate": "2020-01",
      "summary": "Menu-management SaaS for restaurants, designed, built, and operated solo.",
      "highlights": [
        "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."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Orient News",
      "position": "Head of Developers Team",
      "location": "Dubai, United Arab Emirates",
      "startDate": "2021-01",
      "endDate": "2023-01",
      "summary": "Led the engineering team behind the digital transformation of a major regional news agency.",
      "highlights": [
        "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."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Alpha Creative Agency",
      "position": "Head of Developers",
      "location": "Istanbul, Türkiye",
      "startDate": "2016-01",
      "endDate": "2021-01",
      "summary": "Ran the programming team at a full-service creative agency.",
      "highlights": [
        "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."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Freelance",
      "position": "SEO & Technical Consultant",
      "location": "Global",
      "startDate": "2020-01",
      "summary": "Independent technical SEO and site-health consulting.",
      "highlights": [
        "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."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Inhouse Global",
      "position": "Senior Consultant",
      "location": "Istanbul, Türkiye",
      "startDate": "2020-01",
      "endDate": "2021-01",
      "summary": "Built and supported the company's web presence and supporting infrastructure.",
      "highlights": [
        "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."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Job2Go Recruitment Agency",
      "position": "Full-Stack Web Developer",
      "location": "Wales, United Kingdom",
      "startDate": "2019-01",
      "endDate": "2020-01",
      "summary": "Built the technical foundation for a UK job-opportunities platform.",
      "highlights": [
        "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."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Questionnaire Connect",
      "position": "Full-Stack Web Developer",
      "location": "United States (remote)",
      "startDate": "2018-01",
      "endDate": "2019-01",
      "summary": "Built a web-based survey platform for healthcare providers.",
      "highlights": [
        "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."
      ]
    }
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      "name": "Orient News Platform",
      "description": "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.",
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        "+30% engagement · +30% platform performance",
        "Migrated the newsroom off native PHP without interrupting publishing",
        "Built and led the engineering team from zero",
        "Restructured content architecture and technical SEO",
        "Optimised Core Web Vitals across article and index pages"
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        "PHP",
        "Next.js",
        "React",
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    {
      "name": "Multifaith Alliance",
      "description": "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.",
      "highlights": [
        "+70% site performance",
        "WordPress → Next.js migration with content and rankings preserved",
        "Dynamic page types staff can compose without a developer",
        "SEO structure and page-load rework",
        "Responsive design and production deployment pipeline"
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      "keywords": [
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        "Tailwind CSS",
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      "name": "Amenu",
      "description": "Menu-management SaaS for restaurants. Built solo end to end and iterated across three major versions based on how real venues actually used it.",
      "highlights": [
        "1,000+ active users",
        "Front end, back end, infrastructure, and support owned solo",
        "Three shipped versions driven by live usage data",
        "Multi-tenant architecture for independent venues",
        "Sustained adoption with no sales team"
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        "SaaS",
        "Node.js",
        "Product",
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      "entity": "Independent",
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      "name": "Global Hiring Platforms",
      "description": "Large-scale recruitment platforms handling multi-region job data, employer workflows, and candidate matching, delivered alongside multi-client site operations.",
      "highlights": [
        "+25% project success rate across 5 builds",
        "Multi-region job data models and employer workflows",
        "Led concurrent delivery across five complex builds",
        "Shared component and deployment standards across clients",
        "Cloud Run deployment with CI/CD"
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      "keywords": [
        "Next.js",
        "TypeScript",
        "Node.js",
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        "PostgreSQL",
        "MongoDB",
        "Prisma ORM",
        "Schema design"
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        "Linux server management",
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        "CI/CD pipelines",
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        "LLM API integration",
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