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Mohammed Alama

I write code that ages well — Senior Backend Engineer, 9 yrs PHP

About Me

Nine years ago I was converting Photoshop mockups into WordPress themes at a small Cairo studio. Today I architect Laravel modular monoliths that ship rides across 50+ countries. Same person — different problems. What kept me here was a stubborn belief that code is read more than it's written, and that the best systems get smaller as they grow, not bigger.

Right now I'm focused on Domain-Driven Design at the edges where it stops being theory: geospatial pricing engines over 22k zones, event-driven pipelines moving 50k+ events/hr through Redis Streams, and AI-assisted workflows that turn ADRs into shipped modules. Senior Backend Engineer, technical lead, occasional mentor — comfortable owning a system from architecture diagram to production deploy.

Skills
Development Principles
Clean Code
SOLID
OOP
Design Patterns
DDD
Modular Programming
Enterprise Patterns
MVC
TDD
REST API
JSON:API
OAuth
OpenAPI
Languages & Runtimes
PHP 8.x
Python
SQL
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
PHP Frameworks
Laravel
Symfony
Yii
Zend
E-commerce Frameworks
Spryker
ORM
Eloquent
Doctrine
Propel
Databases & Search
MySQL
PostgreSQL
SQLite
Redis
Elasticsearch
AWS CloudSearch
Testing
PHPUnit
Codeception
Behat
Pest
Robot Framework
CMS
Drupal
WordPress
Infrastructure & Messaging
Linux (LEMP)
Nginx
PHP-FPM
Redis Streams
RabbitMQ
Laravel Horizon
DevOps & Cloud
Docker
Docker Compose
Git
Azure CI/CD
AWS
DigitalOcean
Methodologies
Agile
Scrum
ADRs
Code Review
Technical Leadership
Mentorship
Recent Projects

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Get In Touch

I'm always interested in hearing about new projects and opportunities. Feel free to reach out!