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Abdullah Ghonaiem

Salmiya, Kuwait

Abdullah
Ghonaiem, Software Engineer

Hey, I’m Abdullah Ghonaiem, an Egyptian software engineer based in Kuwait. I earned my software engineering degree at Istanbul Okan University in Istanbul, Türkiye, and I build full-stack applications, mobile products, and AI-powered automation systems, from architecture to production deployment.

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Currently Software Engineer and Technical Product Owner at Fifty Studios Holding Company.

Selected achievements

Verified results, each from one named project.

Featured projects

Three projects I led or built end to end. Each case study explains the problem, the architecture, and exactly which parts are my work.

Mobile · Product Engineering

Coop’s Delivery & Riders

A commercial grocery delivery platform in Kuwait with separate customer and driver apps for ordering, payment, tracking, and delivery.

  • Flutter
  • Dart
  • REST APIs
  • TAP Payments
  • UPayments
  • PACI Maps
  • Firebase Cloud Messaging
Role
Lead Flutter Developer & Technical Product Owner
Result
86,500+ combined app downloads
Context
Professional work at Fifty Studios Holding Company

  1. Manifest upload

    One of five provider formats

  2. Provider pipeline

    Validation and parsing

  3. HS classification

    Rules → cache → AI

  4. Review

    Operator resolves uncertain items

  5. Generated output

    PDF · Excel

From a provider’s manifest to customs documentsConceptual diagram

AI & Automation · Full-Stack

Manifest Automation Platform

A platform that automates customs manifest processing for a freight forwarding operation: document processing, HS code classification, and generated PDF and Excel outputs.

Role
Independent Software Engineer & System Architect
Result
92.5% reduction in document processing time
Context
Independent contract for a Kuwait customs & freight forwarding client
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • React
  • OpenAI API
  • SQLite
  • +3 more

Full-Stack · Backend Architecture

Nany Connect

A childcare marketplace connecting parents with nannies, with separate experiences for each side and an administrative console for verification.

Role
Full-Stack Software Engineer
Result
82 → 2 database calls to load 40 conversations
Context
Professional work at Fifty Studios Holding Company
  • React 19
  • TypeScript
  • TanStack Start
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL
  • +1 more

More projects

All 7 projects

  • Khsrniخسّرني

    Subscription payments, entitlements, and administration for an Arabic trivia gaming platform.

    React · TypeScript

  • Masahaمساحة

    Hybrid iOS and Android development for a tailoring app with AI-assisted body measurement.

    Capacitor · Swift

  • Thailand Store

    Native loyalty rewards, authenticated commerce APIs, and release hardening for a hybrid e-commerce app.

    Capacitor · Swift

  • Internal Knowledge Assistant

    A RAG chatbot that answers employees’ questions from company records and scanned documents.

    Python · RAG

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Technical expertise

Six areas I work in. Each one links to the projects where you can see it applied.

  1. Full-Stack Development

    Web applications built end to end: typed React frontends, API layers, data models, and the deployment that puts them in front of users.

  2. Mobile Application Development

    Flutter apps for customers and drivers, plus hybrid Capacitor apps where the hard problems sit between the web layer and native iOS and Android code.

  3. Backend Architecture

    Database design, authentication, and authorization enforced where it cannot be bypassed, with query paths measured and tightened when they get chatty.

  4. AI & Automation

    LLM-assisted extraction, classification, and retrieval, wrapped in rules, validation, and monitoring so the output can be trusted in daily operations.

  5. Payment Integrations

    TAP Payments and UPayments checkouts, gateway-verified results, idempotent settlement, and subscription entitlements that follow real payment state.

  6. Product Engineering

    Turning operational needs into requirements, coordinating releases with backend teams and stakeholders, and keeping production systems healthy afterwards.

Technical skills

Languages
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Dart
  • Swift
  • Java
  • SQL
  • PHP
Frontend
  • React
  • Next.js
  • TanStack Start
  • Tailwind CSS
Mobile
  • Flutter
  • Capacitor
  • Android SDK
  • iOS SDK
Backend
  • Node.js
  • FastAPI
  • Laravel
  • Express.js
  • REST APIs
Databases
  • PostgreSQL
  • Supabase
  • SQLite
AI & Automation
  • OpenAI API
  • RAG
  • OCR
  • LLM Integration
  • Workflow Automation
  • Web Scraping
  • n8n
DevOps & Cloud
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Git
  • CI/CD
Integrations
  • TAP Payments
  • UPayments
  • Firebase
  • OneSignal
  • WooCommerce
  • WordPress REST API

Professional experience

Four roles since 2022: product engineering at a holding company, an independent client contract, mobile development, and an AI internship.

  1. April 2025 – Present

    Software Engineer · Technical Product Owner

    Fifty Studios Holding Company

    Engineering and product ownership across the company’s commercial products: a grocery delivery platform, a trivia gaming platform, a childcare marketplace, and two hybrid commerce apps.

    • Led development and management of Coop’s Delivery and Coop’s Riders, the customer and driver apps behind a commercial grocery delivery platform in Kuwait.
    • Built monetization and administrative systems for Khsrni, an Arabic trivia gaming platform with approximately 10,000 users.
    • Independently developed Nany Connect’s backend and full-stack functionality: authentication, messaging, database architecture, and administrative workflows.
    • Developed and maintained the iOS and Android apps for Masaha and Thailand Store, including MirrorSize integration work for Masaha.
    • Integrated payment gateways, REST APIs, and third-party services, and delivered web scraping, workflow automation, and conversational AI solutions.
    • Flutter
    • Dart
    • Laravel
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Node.js
    • Capacitor
    Case studiesCoop’s Delivery & RidersKhsrniNany ConnectMasahaThailand Store

  2. January 2026 – July 2026

    Independent Software Engineer

    Independent contract · Kuwait customs & freight forwarding client

    Designed, built, and deployed an AI-powered customs manifest automation platform on my own, from architecture to production.

    • Automated customs document processing across five shipping providers, with AI-assisted HS code classification and PDF and Excel generation.
    • Reduced processing time from about 20 minutes to under two minutes per manifest.
    • Built an administrative dashboard for workflow management, operational monitoring, and error handling.
    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • React
    • SQLite
    • Docker
    Case studyManifest Automation Platform

  3. 2022 – 2025

    Mobile Application Developer

    Codra Tech

    Developed and maintained Flutter applications for Android and iOS alongside other developers.

    • Integrated REST APIs with backend services and built reusable mobile UI components.
    • Debugged application issues, improved reliability, and shipped new features and maintenance releases with the team.
    • Flutter
    • Dart
    • REST APIs

  4. 2023

    AI Engineer Intern

    Diyar United Company

    Developed a Python-based internal AI chatbot that answers natural-language questions about employee information and internal documentation.

    • Used Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) over a searchable knowledge base built from employee records and company documents.
    • Implemented OCR to extract text from organizational documents so their contents could be retrieved.
    • Python
    • RAG
    • OCR
    • LLM integration
    Case studyInternal Knowledge Assistant

About

I’m Egyptian, based in Salmiya, Kuwait. I studied software engineering at Istanbul Okan University in Istanbul, Türkiye, and have more than three years of professional work across mobile, web, and backend systems.

I started in Flutter, building and maintaining apps for Android and iOS, and moved toward the systems behind them: APIs, databases, payments, and deployment. Today I work at Fifty Studios Holding Company as a software engineer and technical product owner, and I have delivered an AI-assisted customs automation platform end to end as an independent contractor.

I like owning a problem from the first conversation to the production release. That means writing down what the people using the software need, choosing the simplest architecture that will hold, and staying with the system after launch. The work I find most interesting is where a wrong answer is expensive: payments that must settle exactly once, access rules for sensitive data, and automation that operations staff have to trust.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering

Istanbul Okan University · 2020–2024

Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
  • Meta Back-End Developer Professional Certificate
  • Flutter Development Bootcamp

Languages

English · Arabic · Turkish

Location

Salmiya, Kuwait

Contact

For roles, client projects, or a technical conversation, email is the most direct way to reach me.

Abdullahghonaiem@gmail.com
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