Beyond my day work, I build open-source tools to fix the problems I hit myself: the small frictions that show up in real projects. Right now I'm focused on Aristonis, my personal brand and site, where I ship those tools and write devlogs about how they're built.
🎓 Graduating 2026 in Software Engineering. Based in Homs, Syria.
- Technical Diploma in Software Engineering, Homs University (ranked 2nd → earned a place at ITE)
- IT / Software Engineering, Faculty of IT Engineering (ITE), Homs University
- Bachelor of Information Technology (BAIT), Syrian Virtual University
- Backend: PHP, Laravel, Livewire, Filament
- Frontend: Tailwind, Vue/Nuxt, React
- Also code in: Java, Python
- Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle
- Tools: Docker, Git, n8n, k6
- Careerly: Full-stack career guidance platform (frontend, backend, Docker, n8n). Graduation project, Syrian Virtual University.
- ITPortal: Request management system built for the Faculty of IT Engineering (ITE), Homs University.
🔧 Open source: I ship my OSS under the Aristonis organization →
The foundations I built through courses, exercises, and early builds (self-taught, largely via Elzero Web School):
- PHP: PHP-Bootcamp ⭐
- Python: Mastering Python ⭐
- C++ / Algorithms: C++ basics · algorithms · ProblemSolving
- JavaScript / Frontend: ES6 notes · Bootstrap · React tic-tac-toe
- First real project: election-process. My first full app, rough code and plenty of bugs, but where I learned the most.
- 🔗 aristonis.org, my site, OSS, and devlogs
- 📫 mekadalibrahem123@gmail.com · mekad_123@outlook.com