Dubai, United Arab Emirates · UAE Resident · Available now

Hi, I'm Abdallah.
I build AI agents and the systems that power them.

Results-driven Software Engineer with expertise in backend and full-stack development. Skilled in leveraging advanced technologies like large language models and cloud services to design AI-driven applications, enhance performance, and deliver scalable, secure solutions. Proven success in developing innovative tools across diverse industries.

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4.5+ yrs experience

AI · Backend · Full Stack across 3 companies

Native English / Native Arabic

Open to UAE roles Dubai & Abu Dhabi

At a glance

The 30-second version

If you only have a minute, here's what I bring to a team.

Ships AI to real customers

Built the AI chat and voice agents now answering SellAnyCar.com customers, replacing work that used to be human-only.

Measurable impact

50% faster prompt production, 40% faster operations, 30% faster databases — numbers from the systems I own.

Builds whole products alone

Parlay, my side project, is a full Discord-style voice and chat platform I designed, built and shipped solo.

US experience, UAE based

University of Maryland CS graduate, 2 US engineering roles, now in Dubai. Native English and Arabic.

Skills

What I work with

A snapshot of my day-to-day stack, from prompt engineering and agent orchestration to distributed backend services and cloud infrastructure.

Languages

Python5/5

JavaScript / TypeScript4/5

PHP4/5

SQL4/5

AI / LLM

LangChain4/5

LlamaIndex4/5

AWS Bedrock4/5

Prompt Engineering5/5

Agentic AI Systems5/5

ElevenLabs Voice Agents4/5

OpenRouter (multi-model routing)4/5

Backend

FastAPI5/5

Flask4/5

Django4/5

Laravel4/5

Node.js / Express4/5

REST APIs5/5

WebSockets4/5

Message Queues (SQS)4/5

Frontend

React4/5

Material UI4/5

HTML / CSS4/5

Responsive Design4/5

Data & Storage

PostgreSQL4/5

MongoDB4/5

MySQL4/5

Redis4/5

Google BigQuery3/5

Cloud & DevOps

AWS4/5

GCP3/5

Docker4/5

CI / Git Workflows4/5

Selected Work

Things I've built

Production AI systems at SellAnyCar.com, LLM-powered features at PMG, and the side projects I keep building to learn new things. Click any project for the full story.

2026Side Project

Parlay — Self-Hosted Voice & Chat Platform

A Discord-style community app I built alone in Rust: real-time group voice, screen sharing, live chat, moderation and an admin panel, all running on a $12/month server the community owns.

48klines of Rust

524automated tests

5 wksidea to v0.1 release

Group voice and 4K screen sharing that adapts to each viewer's connection
Full server, Windows app and web admin panel, built and shipped solo
One-command deploy; communities own and can export all of their data

RustTokioAxumQUIC / irohPostgreSQLWebSockets

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2026Platform

Meerkat — WhatsApp Business Platform

A WhatsApp messaging platform built with Laravel 13 and Laravel Sail, containerized with Postgres 16, Redis, Horizon, and Mailpit.

Containerized end to end with Laravel Sail, Postgres 16, Redis and Horizon
Queue-driven architecture with Horizon workers
18-test suite with a clean health endpoint

LaravelPHPPostgreSQLRedisHorizonDocker

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2025AI / Agents

AI Chat System for Customer Inquiries

Built from scratch at SellAnyCar.com: an agentic system that handles customer inquiries across chat channels, with multi-model routing via OpenRouter.

Replaced human-only chat support with AI agents handling inquiries end to end
Multi-model routing so each conversation uses the right model for the job
Daily monitoring loop to find failing conversations and fix them

PythonOpenRouterLLM AgentsPrompt EngineeringChat APIsWhatsApp

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2025Full Stack

BuyAnyCar Platform APIs

APIs and SDKs integrating AI models and agentic systems into SellAnyCar's social buying platform, with real-time chat and WhatsApp messaging.

Scaled APIs for real-time chat and WhatsApp integration across applications
LLM-powered agentic systems automating customer touchpoints
Enhanced legacy CRM and optimized database performance by 30%

PythonFastAPIReactWebSocketsWhatsApp APIPostgreSQL

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2025AI / Agents

ElevenLabs Voice Agents for Outreach

Conversational voice agents that run automated marketing and outreach calls for SellAnyCar, tuned per campaign until results approached human performance.

Production voice agents automating outreach calls over the telephony system
Per-campaign prompt and conversation design
Monitoring and tuning loop for underperforming agents

ElevenLabsVoice AgentsConversation DesignPrompt EngineeringMonitoring

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Blog

Latest writing

Notes on building agentic AI systems, production voice agents, and the engineering decisions behind them.

Aug 10, 2026

How I built an AI chat system from scratch

Every chat inquiry at SellAnyCar used to go to a human agent. I built the system that changed that, and the daily loop that made it good enough to keep.

#AI Agents#LLM#Production#SellAnyCar

Jul 22, 2026

Running ElevenLabs voice agents in production

Voice agents that make marketing and outreach calls are not demos. They are production systems with per-campaign design, monitoring, and a lot of iteration.

#ElevenLabs#Voice Agents#Production#Conversation Design

Jun 18, 2026