Ghassan Ahmed / Software Engineer
Building software people rely on.
I design and ship software end-to-end — from system architecture and APIs to fast, bilingual interfaces. 6+ years in production across Palestine and the Gulf. Currently engineering BrightGaza.
- Years shipping to production
- 6+
- National & government platforms
- 10+
- Countries with gov clients
- 2
- Bilingual, RTL-native delivery
- AR/EN
Shipped for teams & institutions across Palestine and the Gulf
- BrightGaza
- Qareeb
- Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Human Rights Commission KSA
- Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
- PalAI.network
- ArabTalents
- Palestinian Bar Association
- TAQAT
Connecting Gaza's talent to the world.
BrightGaza is a freelance marketplace connecting global clients with vetted Palestinian talent. I engineer the platform behind it — hiring and service flows, proposals and contracts, secure payments, reviews, and the dashboards that run it all — in Arabic and English.
- 12,500+
- Community members
- 3,200+
- Projects delivered
- $480K+
- Secure payments
- 96%
- Satisfaction rate
Platform figures, as published on brightgaza.com
Talent that shines beyond borders. A trusted, bilingual marketplace for real remote work — built to hold up under real money and real deadlines.
- Jobs, services & talent marketplace
- Proposals, contracts & milestones
- Secure payments with clear billing
- Ratings, reviews & verified profiles
- Arabic + English, RTL-native
Qareeb
قريب“nearby” in Arabic
A delivery platform built for Palestine.
I designed and engineered Qareeb end-to-end — the customer ordering experience, phone-number sign-in, and the operations dashboard behind it. Arabic-first with full English support, installable on any phone, and deployed on a modern edge stack.
- Phone-first sign-inOTP verification on Palestinian numbers. No passwords, no friction.
- Arabic-first, truly bilingualRTL and LTR from one codebase — not a translated afterthought.
- Installable PWAAdd it to the home screen and it behaves like a native app.
- Operations dashboardThe tooling that keeps orders moving behind the scenes.
An engineer who owns the whole problem.
I started in 2020 shipping platforms for Palestinian government bodies, human-rights organisations and Gulf clients. Since then I've owned systems end-to-end — data models, APIs, access control, real-time pipelines, and the interfaces on top.
I'm a software engineer, not a framework specialist. I pick the stack that fits the problem, and I obsess over the details people actually feel: speed, clarity, and Arabic that reads like Arabic — not a mirrored English layout.
Product engineering
From a blank repo to a live product — scoping, building, launching, iterating.
Systems & APIs
Data models, REST APIs, auth and RBAC, real-time pipelines that hold up in production.
Interfaces
Fast, responsive React / Next.js front-ends that feel native on a phone.
Bilingual by default
Arabic and English, RTL and LTR, designed in from day one.
Platforms trusted at national scale.
Government portals, human-rights platforms, and bilingual marketplaces — production systems people depend on every day.
Divide and conquer. Ship in focused steps.
National-scale platforms aren't built by accident. Everything I've shipped got there the same way — and it's literally written on my wall.
Yes — that's BrightGaza on the laptop.- 01
Decompose
Break the problem into pieces small enough to reason about.
- 02
Design
Data model, boundaries, and failure modes — before the first line of code.
- 03
Ship a slice
Get a thin, real version in front of users early.
- 04
Iterate
Measure, harden, repeat. Small steps compound.
6 years of shipping to production.
Product engineering, backend systems, and admin platforms — for startups, government bodies, and human-rights organisations across Palestine and the Gulf.
- NowPalestine
Creator & Software Engineer
CurrentQareeb- Designed and built Qareeb, a delivery platform for Palestine — ordering flows, phone-OTP authentication, and an operations dashboard.
- Arabic-first, fully bilingual (RTL/LTR) Next.js app shipped as an installable PWA on Vercel.
- Jan 2023 — PresentGaza, Palestine
Senior Software Engineer
CurrentTAQAT Palestine Business Incubator- Lead engineer on BrightGaza — the freelance marketplace connecting global clients with Palestinian talent (12,500+ members, 3,200+ projects delivered).
- Engineered production platforms across government and civic-tech, including PalAI.network and ArabTalents.org.
- Architected systems with role-based access control, RESTful APIs, and analytics dashboards serving thousands of daily users in Arabic (RTL) and English.
- Built CMS and admin platforms for the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture and Saudi Arabia's Human Rights Commission — employee management, warehouse tracking, reporting.
- Owned secure authentication, API design, and integration workflows across multi-tenant deployments.
- Apr 2022 — May 2024Contract / Part-time
Freelance Software Engineer
Danat Company- Designed and shipped a real-time lead-prioritization pipeline over WebSockets, cutting sales-team response latency on hot leads.
- Built five product landing pages end-to-end: wireframes, mockups, and responsive implementations.
- Integrated RESTful APIs across internal applications and tuned performance for backend-heavy workloads.
- Nov 2020 — Feb 2022Gaza, Palestine
Software Developer
Shift Company- Improved site performance and user experience by ~83% in collaboration with the design team.
- Contributed to website planning and research workflows, saving the team an estimated 400+ working hours.
- Maintained QA sheets across design and project management for delivery quality control.
The right tool for every layer.
Framework-agnostic by design: modern TypeScript and React on the front, solid APIs and data underneath, and bilingual (Arabic/English) delivery baked in.
Languages
04Frontend
06Backend
06Platform & workflow
07Engineering
04Education
Certifications
- Small Project ManagementUSAID (U.S. Embassy supervision) · 2020
- Innovation in Government WorkMBRCGI
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)Google
- Cybersecurity FundamentalsEdraak
- Introduction to CybersecurityEdraak
- Introduction to NetworksEdraak
- System Protection from HackingEdraak
Let's build something worth using.
Open to senior engineering roles, product partnerships, and ambitious builds — remote-first. A short note about what you're building is the fastest way in.