Available in Dubai, UAE
I engineer systems
that survive scale.
Senior Software Engineer × AI Engineer building enterprise platforms, intelligent products, and dependable infrastructure from the first API to the final interface.
Current focus
AI-enabled product systems
production software
optimized
achieved
import failures
00 / PROFILE
From product surface to system coreA full-stack perspective.
An AI-forward trajectory.
I build software where reliability, scale, and user experience are all part of the same engineering decision.
Across 7+ years, I’ve delivered data-heavy enterprise systems, real-time education platforms, cloud search infrastructure, and applied machine-learning projects. My work spans architecture, implementation, optimization, and collaboration—from a clean interface to a 250-million-record query path.
01 · Measure the bottleneck
02 · Design for operability
03 · Ship the whole system
01 / SELECTED IMPACT
Production outcomesSystems thinking,
measured in outcomes.
250Mrecords
Segment targeting without the wait.
Extended MailWizz with a tree-based condition builder for nested marketing rules, then redesigned the data path with partitioning, database views, and step-wise Redis caching.
Query latency−60%
20M-address imports, built to finish.
Created a chunked CSV pipeline with queuing, Redis-backed caching, and in-database deduplication for reliable bulk ingestion.
30% faster ingestion20M addresses
Search infrastructure tuned for Arabic.
Built WordPress integrations and a reusable Laravel SDK with Redis-backed jobs, custom analyzers, tokenizers, and stemming pipelines.
99.9% reliability95% fewer failures
Live systems for faster human decisions.
Engineered call monitoring and live teacher-activity dashboards with Node.js and Socket.IO—supporting 200+ daily calls and sub-second event updates.
50%lower ticket latency
40%faster advisor response
99.8%platform uptime
02 / PROJECT LAB
Applied AI + product engineeringIdeas made executable.
GOV / 01Backend Engineering
Sharjah Media Council ePortal
A bilingual government e-services platform that digitizes company registration and the complete media-permit journey—from application and internal review to payment, certificate issuance, and renewal. My backend contribution focused on scalable API architecture, secure role-based workflows, auditable approvals, and integration-ready services across the UAE digital-government ecosystem.
Selected public-facing scope only · implementation details intentionally omitted
UAE INTEGRATION ECOSYSTEM
Designed to connect with the services that power digital government.
Identity · company verification · payments · government connectivity · trusted messaging
Sharjah Economic Development DepartmentCompany verification
UAE PASSDigital identity & SSO
Tahseel Payment GatewayGovernment payments
Sharjah Digital DepartmentGovernment connectivity
Etisalat SMS ServiceOTP & notifications
Integration architecture and delivery readiness shown; availability depends on government onboarding and production credentials.
AI / 01Language model
ArabPoemGen
A character-level LSTM pipeline that cleans, normalizes, and tokenizes Arabic poetry before learning to generate new verse from the source style.
AI / 02Audio intelligence
Music Emotion Recognition
A machine-learning pipeline combining annotated emotion ratings with extracted acoustic features to predict musical arousal.
SYS / 01Simulation
Cloth Simulation Engine
A real-time particle-based cloth engine with custom optimization algorithms for constraint solving and collision detection.
PERSONAL / 01Mobile Developer
SmartRecipeHub
A personal side project that helps people discover and save recipes, plan weekly meals, create shopping lists, and follow guided cooking steps. Built for English and Arabic users and published on Google Play as DishPlan.
API / 01Fitness platform
Fitnet · Your Gym Partner
Laravel REST APIs with JWT authentication, subscription management, and a Postman collection for mobile integration.
WEB / 01Multilingual site
Al Qalmoun Language Institute
A customized, multilingual WordPress site optimized for performance and secure administrative workflows.
03 / SYSTEM DESIGN
Architecture as a product decisionScale is designed.
It isn’t discovered.
I approach architecture from the workload backward: isolate the expensive path, make state observable, choose the right boundary, then build for graceful recovery.
ARCH / 0120M-address import path
InputCSV · 20M
→
ControlChunk + validate
→
BufferQueue + Redis
→
PersistSQL dedupe
ARCH / 02Live education operations
Events10+ sessions
→
TransportSocket.IO
→
OperationsLive dashboard
04 / CAPABILITIES
Broad enough to own the outcomeDeep in the stack.
Fluent across it.
Production experience across backend architecture, frontend delivery, applied AI, data systems, and cloud operations.
01
Backend systems
PHP · Laravel · Yii2 · CodeIgniter · Node.js · Express · Nest.js · Strapi · Python · Django · REST APIs
02
Frontend engineering
TypeScript · React · Next.js · Vue.js · HTML · CSS · Bootstrap · jQuery · Redux · Zustand · Jest
03
AI & machine learning
ChatGPT API · Claude · LSTM · YOLO · OCR · NumPy · Pandas · SciPy · scikit-learn · A/B testing
04
Data & infrastructure
MySQL · SQL · MongoDB · Redis · Linux · Docker · AWS Lambda · S3 · background queues · caching
05
Engineering practice
System design · performance optimization · accessible UI · Agile / Scrum · code review · technical documentation
Indicators represent day-to-day focus and experience breadth—not arbitrary proficiency scores.
05 / EXPERIENCE
2019 → presentBuilt in production.
2023Jul — Present
Software Engineer
Curve Spark · Dubai, UAE
Data-heavy marketing systems, segmentation, bulk imports, admin products, and REST APIs with measurable performance improvements.
2022Mar — Jun 2023
Software Engineer
Al-Ebtikhar Educational Aids · Ajman, UAE
Educational CRM, e-learning platforms, call monitoring, and live teacher dashboards supporting advisors and concurrent learning sessions.
2021May — Nov
Front End Engineer · Remote
Lone System · Germany / Damascus
Translated Figma designs into responsive educational interfaces and integrated frontend components with backend services in an Agile team.
2020Nov — Apr 2021
Software Engineer
Lableb Cloud Search · Damascus, Syria
Multi-tenant cloud search, Arabic-language processing, WordPress integrations, and a reusable Laravel search SDK.
2019Jul — Oct 2020
Full Stack Web Developer
Tradinos · Damascus, Syria
Tailored web platforms, responsive interfaces, REST APIs, and automation systems for food delivery, trading, and production workflows.
06 / RÉSUMÉ
The complete record.
Two pages covering employment history, government and independent projects, technical expertise, education, and languages.
- B.Sc.
- IT Engineering · Artificial Intelligence
- University
- Damascus University
- Period
- Sep 2015 — Sep 2021
07 / CONTACT
Have a hard problem?
Let’s make it tractable.
Open to conversations about senior software engineering, applied AI, and product-focused technical leadership.
Direct channels
Emailbashar.modallal@gmail.com↗ Phone+971 50 127 8292↗ LinkedIn/in/bashar-modallal↗BaseDubai, United Arab Emirates