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MHD KAREEM ALKHAYAT

@mhdkareemalkhayat

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Backend Developer at KuwaitNET building Django platforms for government, finance, and e-commerce.

Syrian Arab Republic

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What I'm looking for

I'm open to remote work in EU or GCC time zones and to relocation.

At KuwaitNET, I build Django and Django REST Framework applications for government, financial, and e-commerce clients. For the National Fund for SME Development, I delivered a bilingual e-services portal spanning 25 Django apps, with approval workflows and government integrations.

At Alfurat GmbH, I architect and maintain WebRobot, a distributed web and mobile automation platform. It combines Selenium and Appium automation with an OCR pipeline, and runs as a Dockerized multi-worker fleet with live monitoring.

I'm also the sole developer of Winy, a voucher marketplace with location-based merchant discovery, and Hissa, an education marketplace with an encrypted video pipeline and accounting ledger. My earlier work in network and system administration included maintaining Linux servers and ISP infrastructure.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Sole Developer

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Hissa

Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 9 months)

Sole developer of a two-sided marketplace for recorded video courses; built a secure video pipeline (FFmpeg to AES-128 encrypted HLS, S3), a double-entry accounting ledger with database-level integrity, and a JWT-secured REST API with OAuth on a modular 16-app Django architecture.

Python Django DRF PostgreSQL Celery Vue.Js FFMPEG HLS AES 128 S3 Double Entry Accounting JWT OAuth Modular Architectures

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Sole Developer

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Winy

Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 9 months)

Sole developer of a multi-country voucher marketplace with loyalty rewards and location-based merchant discovery, multi-currency support and ZATCA tax invoicing; production-grade auth, pluggable payment layer and modular-monolith architecture.

Python Django DRF PostgreSQL PostGIS Celery Vue.Js Multi Currency ZATCA OTP Argon2 Payment Integration Modular Monolith

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Open-Source Contributor

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django-background-tasks

Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 9 months)

Forked and extended the popular django-background-tasks library with multi-worker support: worker-specific task routing, per-worker synchronous execution, and admin filters/actions for a database-backed job queue across multiple servers.

Python Django Background Tasks Multi Worker Task Routing Admin Database Backed Queue

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Software Engineer

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Alfurat GmbH

Aug 2021 - Present (5 years 2 months)

Architect and maintain a distributed web & mobile automation platform on a master/worker model with a database-backed job queue and centralized Django admin. Automate web and mobile with Selenium and Appium, including an OCR pipeline, and build additional automation tools and desktop applications with Python and C#/.NET.

Python Django Selenium Appium ADB OpenCV Tesseract OCR Docker C#.NET Windows Forms REST Automation Distributed Systems

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Backend Developer

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KuwaitNET

Nov 2020 - Present (5 years 11 months)

Build web applications and REST APIs with Django and DRF for government, financial and e-commerce clients, with Celery + RabbitMQ background processing and CI/CD on GitLab CI. Integrate payment gateways, build Vue.js front ends, and optimize applications for speed and scalability.

Sole Developer

SimCharger

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022 (11 months)

Sole developer of a Windows desktop tool controlling GSM/LTE modems over serial (AT commands, USSD, GSM 7-bit PDU encoding) to top up prepaid SIM cards, with a REST client to a web backend.

C#.NET Windows Forms Serial AT Commands USSD GSM 7 Bit PDU REST

Network & System Administrator

AYA Internet Service Provider

May 2018 - Nov 2020 (2 years 6 months)

Administered Linux servers, routers, firewalls (Cisco ASA/PIX, Sophos) and monitoring (PRTG) in a 24/7 ISP environment; diagnosed and resolved hardware, software and networking issues.

Linux Cisco ASA Pix Sophos PRTG Networking System Administration Troubleshooting

IT Support & System Administrator

Syrian (Sama) Art Production International

Oct 2017 - May 2018 (7 months)

Maintained WAN/LAN, Exchange, Domain Controller and SAN/NAS storage; installed and configured hardware, operating systems, applications and user accounts.