Software Engineer · Independent Studio · 2026Dubai · UAE

Buildingdigitalproductsthat endure.

I'm Saleh — a software engineer crafting performant web, AI and cloud systems for founders and studios worldwide. Calm interfaces, deep engineering, lasting code.

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Teams who put their name on my work.

(About)

Engineering as a craft, not a checklist.

For the last eight years I've been shipping production software across fintech, healthcare, climate-tech and creative tooling. I work in small teams where every line counts, every interaction is intentional, and every release is something I'd put my name on.

My work sits at the intersection of rigorous engineering and quiet, deliberate design. I write less code that does more, prefer boring technology that scales, and obsess over the milliseconds most people never notice.

Years building

60+

Shipped projects

Countries served

∞

Cups of coffee

(Services)

What I can help you build.

Five disciplines, one accountable engineer. From first architecture diagram to last deploy.

Production-grade web applications — from marketing sites to multi-tenant SaaS. Performant, accessible, and built to scale without rewrites.

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Next.js / React apps
Design systems
Streaming & realtime
Edge-deployed
SEO optimization
Accessibility (WCAG 2.2)

System design that survives contact with real traffic. Event-driven, domain-driven, boring where it should be and clever where it counts.

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Architecture diagrams
ADRs
API contracts
Migration plans
Risk assessments
Cost projections

Practical AI that ships. RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, eval-driven development — grounded, observable, and cost-aware.

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RAG pipelines
Agent frameworks
Evals & guardrails
LLMOps
Cost optimization
Observability stack

Infrastructure as code, observability baked in, costs tamed. AWS, GCP, Cloudflare — whatever fits, never fashion over function.

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Terraform modules
CI/CD pipelines
Observability stack
Cost optimization
Disaster recovery
Security hardening

For teams that need a senior brain in the room. Code reviews, architecture audits, hiring loops, technical roadmaps.

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Architecture audits
Code reviews
Team mentorship
Roadmap sessions
Hiring loops
Technical due diligence

(Selected Work)

Recent things I've made.

A small selection of shipped products. Filter by discipline.

2026

Web

Lumen Finance

Lumen Capital

Lead Engineer

A real-time wealth dashboard handling 2B+ data points per day, with sub-100ms streaming charts and a buttery 60fps experience.

Next.jsWebSocketRustClickHouseTailwind

2025

Atlas AI

Atlas Labs

Founding Engineer

A retrieval-augmented assistant that reads 500k enterprise documents and answers in under 800ms — grounded, cited, and auditable.

PythonpgvectorLangChainFastAPIVercel AI

2025

Cloud

Verdant Climate

Verdant

Cloud Architect

A sensor ingestion pipeline processing 4M+ IoT readings/hour across 11 regions. Cost-optimized to 38% of original cloud bill.

AWSKafkaTerraformTimescaleDBGrafana

2025

Mobile

Haven Health

Haven

Mobile Lead

A HIPAA-compliant patient companion app with offline-first sync, end-to-end encryption and a 4.9★ store rating across 80k installs.

React NativeExpoSQLiteTypeScriptEAS

2024

Web

North Studio

North

Design Engineer

An award-winning agency website featuring a custom WebGL renderer, magnetic interactions, and 98+ Lighthouse across all metrics.

Three.jsGSAPNext.jsLenisGLSL

2024

Octave Audio

Octave

ML Engineer

Real-time voice cloning API serving 12 languages with 240ms median latency, deployed on a single GPU node.

PyTorchONNXTritonFastAPIRedis

2024

Cloud

Meridian Edge

Meridian

Platform Engineer

A multi-tenant edge platform deploying serverless functions to 240+ POPs with cold starts under 30ms.

Cloudflare WorkersWASMRustD1Queues

2023

Web

Saffron Commerce

Saffron

Full-stack Engineer

A headless commerce platform for MENA artisans, supporting 3 currencies, 2 languages, and a checkout that converts 3.2× industry baseline.

Next.jsStripePostgresAlgoliaVercel

2023

Mobile

Echo Edu

Echo

Mobile Engineer

An offline-first learning app for refugee students, with adaptive curriculum and 1.2M+ lessons served across 7 countries.

FlutterDartSupabaseHiveOpenAI

(Testimonials)

What clients say after we ship.

“

Saleh is the rare engineer who cares as much about the milliseconds as the architecture. He shipped our real-time platform in 14 weeks — what we'd estimated as 9 months.

Sarah Lindqvist

CTO, Lumen Capital

“

We hired Saleh to build our RAG assistant. Six months later we had four Fortune-500 customers and a hallucination rate of 0.4%. He set the standard for what 'production-ready AI' means.

Marcus Chen

Founder, Atlas Labs

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Our cloud bill was bleeding $84k/month. Saleh cut it to $32k without losing a single feature. His cost-engineering brain is worth the consulting fee ten times over.

Priya Venkatesh

VP Engineering, Verdant

“

The mobile app Saleh built for us has a 4.9★ rating and 71% week-4 retention. Industry average is 23%. He writes code that patients actually love to use.

Dr. Karim Aboud

CEO, Haven Health

(Open Source)