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Mohamed Gamal · Work & Experience

Building Systems
That Power Businesses.

Products I've built, systems I've worked on, and the companies I've partnered with.

Go Studios Group

Built for Go Studios Group, an influencer marketing agency in Kuwait. The products and brands belong to GSG.

GoLink homepage

Creator platform · SaaS

GoLink

A link-in-bio and business profile platform for content creators: a public profile with videos and services, Pro subscriptions with recurring billing in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, promo codes, and staff roles with an access log.

  • Laravel 13
  • React 19
  • Inertia
  • Payments
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Influencer CRM homepage with a live client report

Internal tool · CRM

Influencer CRM

One place for the GSG team to keep every influencer, build shortlists per brand, run campaigns, and send each client a live report they open from a link, with views and engagement per platform.

  • Laravel 13
  • Livewire 4
  • Reporting
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Direct clients

Built end to end for clients who worked with me directly. The products belong to them.

Lonzi photo book storefront

E-commerce · Saudi Arabia

Lonzi

A bilingual photo-book platform: pick a design, upload photos, edit the book, check out and track the order, ending in press-ready print files.

  • Laravel 13
  • React 19
  • TypeScript
  • Redis
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ProfitFlow landing page

Fintech · Investments

ProfitFlow

Manages investment units and distributes profits: ownership records, an investor portal with statements, automatic distribution calculations, and a documented API.

  • Laravel
  • REST API
  • AR / EN
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Leshant homepage in Arabic

Marketplace · Global shopping

Leshant

Request any product from anywhere in the world: verified shoppers send offers and deliver, with separate dashboards for customers, shoppers and admins.

  • Next.js 16
  • Laravel 13 API
  • AR / EN
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With Tekval

Delivered as part of the team at Tekval. Credit for these projects goes to Tekval and their clients.

OCS homepage

Compliance · GRC · Saudi Arabia

OCS

A compliance platform for regulated Saudi companies, covering SAMA and ten other frameworks: controls, tasks, evidence, risks, audits, audit-pack generation and confidential whistleblowing.

  • Laravel 12
  • PostgreSQL
  • Alpine.js
  • RAG
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Clean Click homepage

On-demand services · Jordan

Clean Click

Mobile car detailing in Amman: the API behind the customer and captain apps, plus the admin dashboard for bookings, captains and pricing, in Arabic and English.

  • Laravel
  • Vue 3
  • PostgreSQL
  • OpenAPI
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With IT Arm

Delivered with IT Arm, an IT solutions company. Credit for this project goes to IT Arm.

IT Arm website homepage

Company website · AR / EN

IT Arm

A bilingual website for IT Arm's services: ERP on Odoo, real estate investment and property management, websites, and mobile app design and development.

  • Laravel
  • AR / EN
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My own products

Things I build on my own time, mostly practical AI for business software.

Smart Inbox landing page

AI · Open source Live

Smart Inbox

Turns any inbox in a Laravel app, such as contact messages, reviews, support requests and disputes, into a sorted one: a category, a priority, a one-line reason and a draft reply for every item. It never replies on its own, and personal data never goes to the AI.

  • Laravel
  • AI agent skill
  • MIT
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Experience

The years behind the projects above. Most of this work lives inside these companies' products.

  1. Tech Lead · Tekval Solutions

    Jan – Jun 2026

    Contract

    Led the delivery of client projects, including OCS and Clean Click above.

    • Leadership
    • Delivery
  2. Senior Backend Architect · Upwork

    2024 – 2026

    Freelance

    Laravel SaaS features, dashboards and API-based systems for clients in several countries, and refactoring legacy PHP into modern Laravel.

    • Top Rated
    • Architecture
    • Legacy refactoring
  3. Senior Backend Developer · IT-ARM

    2023 – 2024

    Full-time

    Built a complete hotel and camp booking system from scratch, integrated with Najm and Elm in Saudi Arabia.

    • Built from scratch
    • Najm & Elm
    • Saudi Arabia
  4. Backend Team Lead · Rafiiq

    Aug – Dec 2022

    Full-time

    Led a cross-functional team rebuilding a legacy PHP system as a modern Laravel app, with custom Zoom and Paymob packages and a redesigned database.

    • Team lead
    • Legacy → Laravel
    • Payments
  5. Backend Developer · ArkDev

    2021 – 2022

    Full-time

    Delivered secure features for a government project, and built a full Laravel project for a U.S. client: architecture, APIs and database.

    • Government
    • U.S. client
  6. Backend Developer · Salla

    2020 – 2021

    Full-time

    Worked on the core product module and the Super Admin dashboard of Salla, the e-commerce platform behind thousands of Saudi stores.

    • E-commerce
    • High traffic
  7. Backend Developer · NextUp Software

    2019 – 2021

    Remote · Netherlands

    Built two apps: one for salaries, shifts and expenses, and one for Jira ticket management, deployed with Forge and CI/CD.

    • Netherlands
    • Jira API
    • Vue.js
  8. Backend Developer · Sharing Group

    2018 – 2019

    Full-time

    Backend modules and APIs for a food delivery and restaurant booking app: bookings, menus and customer workflows.

    • Food delivery
    • Booking
  9. Backend Developer · Upwork

    2017 – 2021

    Freelance

    Laravel and PHP web apps with dashboards and APIs, delivered end to end for international clients.

    • International clients
  10. Backend Developer · Midade Technical Services

    2016 – 2018

    Remote · Saudi Arabia

    Backend for a Quran interpretation app used daily, with faster search and more reliable data handling.

    • Saudi Arabia
    • Search performance
  11. PHP Developer · Freelancer.com

    2014 – 2016

    Freelance

    Websites and CMS features in PHP and MySQL. Where it started.

    • First clients

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