Experience, leadership & community
Entrepreneurship, client work, training and community organising. Different parts of one journey, not separate careers.
2025 — present
AKL HOME
One of five founding partners in an Egyptian furniture company that joins real manufacturing to a modern online operation. I lead the technical and operational systems behind it.
Digital Egypt Pioneers Initiative (DEPI)
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology programme
Coaching aspiring software developers on the part of the work that nobody teaches in a syllabus: turning skills into paid client work.
Huawei Cloud Developer Group — New Cairo
A developer community group, not employment with Huawei
Organising technology events and workshops for the developer community in New Cairo — the logistics, the speakers, the promotion, and the people who show up.
Independent — client work
Eleven client websites and digital systems across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Italy — e-commerce, recruitment platforms, industrial catalogues, logistics and healthcare.
Apr — Oct 2024
Digital Egypt Pioneers Initiative (DEPI)
Completed the Digital Egypt Pioneers Program on the React Web Developer track, sponsored by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and was honoured at the Digital Egypt generations ceremony.
Roles here carry the titles and organisations as they actually are. Where a date or a figure has not been confirmed, it is left out rather than estimated. Community work with the Huawei Cloud Developer Group is exactly that — a developer community group, not employment with Huawei.
