Senior software engineer · Meta · Texas
Eleven years across Android, mobile platforms and backend systems. These days it is user interfaces that a server describes, or an AI agent composes, and a phone renders natively.
The server sends a description; the phone draws it with native parts. This demo works the same way, and it is roughly what I do all day.
Right now
Making Meta's server-driven UI framework a native target for open generative-UI protocols, so an AI agent can compose a screen and the phone renders it with real native components.
Since 2022, on the shared mobile infrastructure behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger.
Adding our UI framework to a new app meant days of boilerplate, every time. Nobody had asked for a fix. I proposed one, then built a command-line tool and an AI-agent skill that do the whole integration.
Now part of the platform: every new app ships with it.
One of three core engineers who turned generative UI into a stack that works across messaging apps and wearables. I built the component transpiler and the playgrounds teams use to iterate, and wrote the roadmap.
First wearables version shipped in a week, with two engineers new to the area.
A legacy pipeline copied shared frameworks into a major messaging app and broke often. I led the move to live dependencies, step by step and behind flags, while keeping the old path stable until everyone was off it.
No production downtime. The app has no special pipeline left.
An ads team needed rendering failures caught before an impression. The shortcut was to reuse a test framework's internals. I argued for a proper validation system and built it with them.
A large, measured revenue loss prevented in its first year.
One app shipped as two products from a single build definition, which kept a build-time safety check switched off. I split it into separate consumer and business targets.
The check is back on, and a whole class of production incident is gone.
Defined the 2025 to 2026 roadmap, wrote the proposals behind it (including a unified visibility API that replaced several separate implementations), and mentored the engineer who now owns the area.
Point of contact for 5+ product teams; 70% faster code deployment for one of them.
Three cities, a studio of my own, two startups, and then very large scale.
Software engineering degree. Founded a small studio.
Android engineer, then technical lead at a news startup.
Backend at scale, then mobile infrastructure at Meta.
Led two developers on backend systems handling more than a million API calls a minute. Circuit breakers, Bloom filters, and a move to containers on AWS.
Early employee. Led four engineers, moved the backend from one server to elastic cloud, cut API latency from 900 ms to about 100 ms, and built an ad platform that doubled revenue.
Android and iOS prototypes with product and sales teams. Two became products that sold.
Batched network requests, fixed memory leaks, raised the crash-free rate from 96% to over 99%.
A small software studio: scheduling software for lawyers and a parental-control app for Android.
I like the problems that sit between product and infrastructure: five teams are blocked, three codebases are involved, and nobody is sure where the bug lives. I find it, fix it, and then try to make sure the next person never has to.
I studied software engineering in Damascus, started a small studio there, led engineering at a news startup in Kuala Lumpur, and now work from Texas. Outside work I build puzzle games and a news reader, mostly to stay close to what it feels like to ship a product end to end.
B.S. Software Engineering, Damascus University, 2015 · Arabic and English
Native Android (Kotlin, Java), server-driven UI, shared UI frameworks, performance and memory debugging. iOS and Flutter when the product needs it.
Interfaces composed by AI agents and rendered natively. Agent skills and tools that automate integration and debugging, built for agents as well as people.
Command-line tools, code generation, build modularization, dependency migrations, runtime debugging, CI reliability.
PHP/Hack, TypeScript, Node.js, Laravel. GCP, AWS, BigQuery, Elasticsearch, Redis, Firebase.
All three are live. I own the product, the code and the deployment.
A daily number puzzle. Fill a tree so each pair adds or multiplies to its parent.
Flutter · TypeScript · Fastify · Firebase
A logic game where every garden hides one dog, and each breed claims space differently.
Flutter · TypeScript · Fastify · Firebase
Arabic and English news. Reports on the same event are grouped so you can compare coverage.
Next.js · Payload CMS · PostgreSQL · Flutter
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