Cairo, Egypt / Working since 2014

Engineering interfaces.
Understanding products.

I’m Sayed Esmail, a Senior Frontend / Full-Stack Engineer in Cairo. I started in 2014 building WordPress and Shopify sites for agencies in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, moved into product work at Botme and AutoTager, and have built and led the frontends of SaaS platforms since 2022: Untap, where I led the frontend team, and now Routz at Schoolz. I studied philosophy before I wrote code, which is probably why I care about naming things well.

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Career

Professional experience

Company roles, from web and commerce development to SaaS architecture and team leadership.

Jan 2025–Present

Schoolz (Routz Platform)

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Built the real-time layer end to end: live GPS tracking of active trips and an in-app chat (web backend and frontend plus the mobile apps) connecting operators, passengers, and drivers over custom Node.js socket services.
Shipped the passenger self-service subscription flow: in-app registration, package selection, and online payment through PayTabs, plus operator workflows for drivers, trips, and billing.
Integrated mapping and geocoding APIs for route planning, location search, and map interactions.
Established shared Vue components and composables for a bilingual Arabic and English interface.

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Dec 2022–Apr 2026

Untap

Senior Frontend Engineer / Frontend Team Lead

Became the primary frontend contributor and was promoted to Frontend Team Lead in January 2025, owning architecture decisions, code reviews, and engineer mentoring.
Designed the multi-tenant foundation for client theming, permission roles, and runtime configuration, supporting dozens of distinct client deployments from one codebase.
Delivered a schema-driven form builder and drag-and-drop page builder on SurveyJS and GrapesJS, then added an AI layer so clients generate forms and pages from a prompt and run AI screening of submissions before judge review.
Integrated Stripe so clients can charge participants for submissions.
Improved initial dashboard load time by 40% through Vite build optimization, route-level code splitting, and state-management refactoring.
Owned frontend security remediation during the ISO 27001:2022 certification: moved auth tokens from localStorage to HTTP-only cookies and replaced vulnerable dependencies until the certificate was granted.

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Jan 2022–Dec 2022

AutoTager

Frontend Engineer

Built the admin, client, and dealer dashboards in React: analytics, inventory, and multi-tenant listings.
Developed the vehicle-inspection workflow: photo uploads, condition scoring, and a structured report that a listing has to pass before it goes live.
Turned the Figma designs into a reusable React component library, which cut design-to-development handoff time by 50%.

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Jan 2018–Jan 2022

Botme

Frontend Engineer

Built and improved the bot builder, workflow automation, live chat, and commerce features in Vue.js and Angular, for a product with 5,000+ active business users a month.
Contributed to Botme Shops, the automated e-commerce module that Facebook featured at F8 Refresh 2021.
Designed the user flows for the visual automation editor and the interactive forms.

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2014–2018

MoreCreative, Enjaz (KSA), MTC (Qatar), and Webdivs

Frontend / Web Developer

Designed and built WordPress, WooCommerce, and Shopify websites and storefronts for agency clients.
Integrated third-party APIs into client sites.

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Alongside company work

Independent projects

I’m the founder and full-stack engineer behind Zads, a personal education product started in 2024. Explore Zads and Fleet Billing, a school-bus subscriptions and billing project, alongside Yanfaa, Wellpal, FundSeer, Kadouscope, and Movex in my freelance portfolio.

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Background

Education & languages

Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy
Damanhour University · 2009–2013

Arabic — Native
English — Full professional proficiency

Let’s work together.

Senior or lead frontend roles, product frontends that need an owner, and Arabic and English interfaces done right.

5atab.work@gmail.com ↗