▍What I've built
A live, HIPAA-compliant platform for home-care and developmental-disability providers across Washington State. Multi-tenant with database-per-tenant isolation, audit-grade controls, and passwordless auth — architected and shipped solo.
carecade.orgA developmental-disability care platform I designed and built end-to-end — client management, web, and operations — serving real clients in Washington State. The kind of domain depth you only get from building the real thing.
aonepluscare.comLaravel, Next.js, Flutter, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS. An event-management platform I taught myself Laravel to build in a single week is still in production years later. I've grown an Arabic-language audience into millions of views — and I'm writing a book to help others land their first client.
Before I ever wrote a line of code, I drew — Captain Majid, faces, little cartoons, shapes and color and geometry. My parents encouraged every page of it, and that's where my eye for detail was born. I've loved design ever since; the craft just moved from paper to the screen.
As a boy in Qatar, I watched a programmer turn typed commands into action on a monochrome monitor. That was the revelation — logic is power, and you can build something from nothing. Drawing and code became the same instinct: make something real, and make it beautiful.
My father died in 1996, and my mother raised six of us on her own. In 1999 we lost my brother to leukemia — a second blow before I'd healed from the first. My mother carried us through all of it. I grew up fast, and everything I've built since rests on the strength she showed. She taught me you can hold grief and still hold the load.
Held back, years behind my classmates, carrying the shame of it. I didn't quit. That's where the rule that's governed every project since took hold.
Shame is temporary. Quitting is permanent. Finish what you start.
A software-engineering diploma at Aptech, then a degree in Computing & Information Systems from the University of Portsmouth — much of it through night shifts and distance learning on top of a full workload. And I never stopped teaching myself beyond the curriculum: whatever the next job demanded, I learned it.
Credentials open the door. Range is the edge.
Fired, deep in debt, a family depending on me, no clear path forward. In the worst stretch of my life I taught myself Laravel in a week and built a platform that replaced three jobs — and it's still running today.
Action beats anxiety. My best work comes out of my hardest moments.
Pouring my best work into other people's ventures taught me that verbal promises don't hold, and value given isn't value returned. So I drew the line.
Own the thing. Put it in writing. Vet character as carefully as competence.
I built A1+ Care to serve people with developmental disabilities — full circle for a kid who was once the one protected, now building things that protect others. Then CareCade, to give care providers the infrastructure they'd never had.
Technology as advocacy.
What I tell myself
“A ship in harbor is safe — but that's not what ships are for.”
Turn every “no” into “watch me.”