Senior Backend Engineer building the systems your product runs on.

At a glance

Years building production Laravel & PHP

10+

Projects delivered for 300+ clients

380+

Technical articles published

647+

Open-source platforms

3

• Shipped

  • Portfolio
  • Web Development
  • +1

  Mohamed Said — Personal Portfolio & Engineering Website

  A complete redesign of my personal engineering website, combining selected production projects, detailed case studies, hundreds of technical articles, certificates, open-source work, and lead generation into one clean professional platform.

  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • Blade
  • Livewire
  • +10

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  Mohamed Said — Personal Portfolio & Engineering Website

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  Role

  Product Owner, Designer & Full-Stack Developer

  Challenge

  The main challenge was organizing more than a decade of engineering experience, hundreds of technical articles, numerous production projects, certificates, and open-source contributions without overwhelming visitors. The previous portfolio format also needed to evolve from a simple personal profile into a professional platform capable of serving different audiences, including potential clients, recruiters, companies, and developers. The redesign needed to remain visually minimal while still providing enough technical depth to demonstrate architecture, backend expertise, real production experience, and the decisions behind each project.

  Approach

  I redesigned the website around a content-first architecture with clear separation between professional positioning, projects, technical writing, certificates, and contact paths. The homepage focuses on quickly communicating my role, experience, engineering focus, and selected work without requiring visitors to explore multiple pages before understanding what I do. Projects were rebuilt as structured case studies with categories, technologies, project status, technical challenges, implementation approach, outcomes, and dedicated project imagery. The article section was designed as an engineering library rather than a traditional blog. Articles are organized through topics, searchable content, featured articles, and technology-focused hubs so hundreds of posts remain easy to discover. The interface uses a restrained visual system with strong typography, generous spacing, reusable components, and minimal decoration to keep attention on the engineering work. SEO, semantic markup, accessibility, responsive behavior, structured metadata, performance, and lead-generation paths were considered throughout the redesign.

  Outcome

  Delivered a cleaner and more focused professional platform that presents my engineering work through projects, architecture decisions, technical writing, and open-source contributions instead of relying on a traditional résumé-style portfolio. The new structure gives clients, recruiters, engineering teams, and developers clear paths to explore relevant work, understand my technical experience, discover articles, and contact me.

  Stack

  Laravel PHP Blade Livewire Alpine.js Tailwind CSS MySQL FilamentPHP JavaScript Vite SEO AEO Structured Data Responsive Design

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  Liliana Antonik Shawky — Author Website & Book Storefront

  An elegant bilingual author website and direct book storefront designed to establish Liliana Antonik Shawky's digital presence, showcase her publications, share editorial content, and sell books directly to readers.

  • HTML
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Alpine.js
  • JavaScript
  • +9

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  Liliana Antonik Shawky — Author Website & Book Storefront

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  Role

  Full-Stack Developer, Solution Architect & UI Implementation

  Challenge

  The main challenge was combining an emotional, editorial author experience with a practical e-commerce flow without making the website feel like a traditional online store. The platform also needed to work for more than the author's first book, support multiple languages, present long-form editorial content, maintain a strong personal brand, and provide a clear path from discovering the author to purchasing a book.

  Approach

  I designed the website around two connected experiences: storytelling and commerce. The public experience uses an editorial structure with strong typography, author imagery, book storytelling, journal content, and carefully placed calls to action. Books are structured as reusable content entities rather than hardcoded sections, allowing future publications to be added without redesigning the website. Each book can have its own presentation, editions, pricing, media, description, and purchasing experience. The ordering flow was kept intentionally simple, allowing readers to select an edition and quantity before proceeding through a secure checkout process. The content architecture also supports bilingual pages, journal articles, newsletters, legal pages, FAQs, and future author events. SEO, semantic page structure, accessibility, responsive behavior, and content discoverability were considered throughout the implementation so the website can serve both readers and search engines effectively.

  Outcome

  Delivered a complete digital presence that combines author branding, editorial storytelling, book discovery, and direct sales in one cohesive platform. The website gives the author full ownership of her relationship with readers while providing a scalable foundation for future books, journal content, newsletters, events, and new releases.

  Stack

  HTML Tailwind CSS Alpine.js JavaScript Responsive Design SEO AEO Structured Data Payment Gateway Integration Laravel PHP Blade MySQL

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  • Platforms
  • Streaming Platforms
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  Suprivale Ao Vivo — Live Camera Streaming & Discovery Platform

  Suprivale Ao Vivo is a live camera streaming and discovery platform that connects viewers with public camera feeds from cities across Brazil. It combines login-free viewing, interactive map discovery, subscription-based partner publishing, advertisements, Asaas payments, and multi-role administration in one system.

  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • FilamentPHP
  • Livewire
  • +8

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  Suprivale Ao Vivo — Live Camera Streaming & Discovery Platform

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  Role

  Lead Backend Engineer & Solution Architect

  Challenge

  Designing a platform that serves both public viewers and paying camera partners while maintaining strict data isolation and permissions between visitors, users, partners, and administrators. The system also needed to combine public live streaming, geographic camera discovery, package-based feature limits, advertisement management, subscription approval, payment processing, and partner dashboards without making the underlying business logic difficult to extend.

  Approach

  I designed the platform around clearly separated user roles and domain boundaries. Public camera streams remain accessible without authentication, while registered users gain personal features such as saved cameras. Partners operate inside an isolated dashboard where all camera, advertisement, subscription, and statistics queries are scoped to their own account. Subscription capabilities are controlled through packages instead of partner-specific hardcoded limits, allowing camera limits, advertisement limits, and additional features to evolve independently. The subscription workflow was implemented as an explicit state-driven process: request submission, admin review, approval, payment, and activation. Asaas was integrated for subscription payments using webhook-driven confirmation and idempotent processing so subscriptions are activated only after verified payment events. OpenStreetMap and Leaflet power geographical camera discovery, while Laravel authorization policies and permissions enforce access rules on the backend rather than relying on UI visibility alone. The administration layer centralizes management of cameras, categories, partners, subscriptions, payments, advertisements, users, content, permissions, and platform activity.

  Outcome

  Delivered a centralized platform where visitors can freely discover and watch live cameras, registered users can save favorites, partners can manage cameras, advertisements and subscriptions, and administrators can control the complete platform from a single dashboard.

  Stack

  Laravel PHP FilamentPHP Livewire Tailwind CSS MySQL OpenStreetMap Leaflet Asaas REST API Webhooks RBAC

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  • SaaS
  • Operations
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  Multi-Tenant SaaS ERP System

  A multi-tenant SaaS ERP platform that lets organizations run sales, purchasing, inventory, CRM, and accounting from one centralized system. Each organization works in its own secure tenant workspace, while a dedicated admin panel lets the operator manage tenants, subscription plans, and platform-wide settings.

  • Laravel 13
  • PHP 8.4
  • Filament 5
  • Livewire 4
  • +2

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  Multi-Tenant SaaS ERP System

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  Role

  System architect & lead backend engineer, end to end

  Challenge

  The platform had to cover a dozen business domains, including sales, purchasing, inventory, CRM, accounting, and workforce operations, without turning into a tangled codebase that is hard to change. At the same time, every organization's data had to stay strictly isolated inside its own tenant workspace, while the SaaS operator still needed central control over organizations, plans, and platform settings.

  Approach

  I designed a modular monolith using nwidart/laravel-modules, giving each business domain its own isolated module so features can evolve and be extended independently within a single deployable application. I built two dedicated Filament 5 panels on Laravel 13 and PHP 8.4: an Admin Panel for managing organizations, subscriptions, and platform-wide settings, and an Organization Panel for employees' daily operations. Organization-level data isolation, role-based permissions, and audit logs secure every tenant, while Livewire 4 and Tailwind CSS 4 power real-time dashboards, PDF document generation, attachments, and human-readable sequential references for invoices and business documents.

  Outcome

  I delivered a complete, production-ready ERP platform that gives organizations a single secure workspace for their core operations and gives the operator full control over tenants and subscriptions. Its modular architecture keeps each domain maintainable and leaves room to add new business areas as the platform grows.

  Stack

  Laravel 13 PHP 8.4 Filament 5 Livewire 4 Tailwind CSS 4 nwidart/laravel-modules

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  • SaaS
  • Events
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  Eventech Integrated Event Management System

  Eventech is an integrated event management platform that helps organizers plan, run, and analyze conferences, festivals, sport events, and large venues from one dashboard, unifying registration, ticketing, accreditation, staffing, CRM, and crowd management with real-time insights and white-label event websites.

  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • +2

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  Eventech Integrated Event Management System

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  Role

  Backend architect & lead backend engineer

  Challenge

  Event organizers needed a single platform to replace fragmented tools for registration, invitations, ticketing, accreditation, staffing, venues, and CRM across very different event types. The hardest constraint was load: registration and on-site check-in traffic peaks in the same short windows, and the system had to stay fast so attendees were never held up at the gate.

  Approach

  I designed the backend in Laravel with MySQL as the core data store, exposing REST APIs that power the operational dashboard, white-label event websites, and third-party integrations. Traffic is distributed across multiple application servers, while Redis supports caching and queueing so the hot paths of registration and check-in stay lightweight. Heavy work such as badge and wristband generation, invitations, and notifications runs asynchronously on queue workers, keeping gate interactions responsive during peak rushes.

  Outcome

  I delivered a production platform that gives organizers end-to-end control of events before, during, and after execution, with real-time reporting, task and vendor tracking, and branded event websites. Its background processing and horizontally spread traffic let registration and check-in rushes be handled without slowing attendees at entry.

  Stack

  Laravel PHP MySQL Redis Laravel Queues REST APIs

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  • Marketplace
  • E-commerce

  OSmart Multi-Vendor E-Commerce Platform

  OSmart is a bilingual Arabic and English multi-vendor e-commerce marketplace where multiple stores and sellers list products and manage their storefronts in one place, while customers browse vendors, check stock availability, save wishlists, and shop through a single responsive cart.

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • MySQL
  • REST API

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  OSmart Multi-Vendor E-Commerce Platform

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  Role

  Full-stack developer, Laravel backend & marketplace architecture

  Challenge

  OSmart needed to bring many independent stores and sellers into one centralized marketplace, with each vendor managing its own storefront and product catalog. Customers had to browse across vendors, see accurate in-stock and out-of-stock status, and shop through a single cart. The whole experience also had to work in both Arabic and English on any device.

  Approach

  I built the platform on Laravel and MySQL with a data model centered on vendors, stores, and products, so each seller's catalog and storefront stay separated while customers see one unified marketplace. I implemented customer accounts with login and registration, a shared shopping cart, wishlists, and product availability status, and exposed core functionality through REST APIs. I added Arabic and English localization and a store directory, and kept the interface clean and responsive so the marketplace scales as new vendors join.

  Outcome

  I delivered a live, marketplace-ready platform at o-smart.net where multiple vendors sell through one storefront and customers browse, save, and buy products in Arabic or English. Its structure supports onboarding more stores without reworking the core.

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  PHP Laravel MySQL REST API

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  Mosque Open Source Website & Admin Panel

  Mosque is a free, open-source website and admin panel built with Laravel 12 and Filament 5. It helps mosques, Islamic centers, and community organizations launch a multilingual Arabic and English site with RTL support, managed through a page builder with 20+ ready-made blocks and no custom coding.

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  OpenCharity Open Source Charity Management Platform

  OpenCharity is an open-source charity management platform built with Laravel and Filament. It helps NGOs, charities, and community organizations manage families, cases, visits, assistance workflows, documents, and donations from one centralized admin panel, which reduces paperwork and makes beneficiary support more transparent.

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  PayPal Fee Calculator Open Source Tool

  PayPal Fee Calculator is an open-source web tool that helps freelancers, sellers, and online business owners instantly estimate PayPal fees, net amounts, and the exact gross amount to charge, so they can price invoices and services with confidence before money changes hands.

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