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Ahmed Almerri · Backend engineer & systems builder

Building the systems behind products that scale.

I design the APIs, data systems, and infrastructure behind products that need to stay fast when the numbers get serious.

Manama, Bahrain4+ years in production

Companies I’ve worked with

Core capabilities

What I build

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Backends & APIs

APIs, background jobs, and data systems for commerce and customer platforms.

See RAIQ

Realtime products

Messaging and live updates that keep conversations and product state in sync.

See Chatty

Applied AI

Retrieval pipelines that connect customer questions to product data and team knowledge.

See Adraa Inbox

Current venture

Building the unified AI inbox at Adraa.

Currently co-founding Adraa Inbox, a unified AI inbox for customer conversations, while leading backend development at RAIQ.

Previously at ProBot, working on billion-row data systems and services used across more than ten million Discord servers.

Let’s work together

Featured work

Selected projects

Across web, mobile, desktop, and games.

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Chatty

General Assembly · Workspace Communication

Workspace chat with live messaging and media uploads.

A team project built at General Assembly Middle East, combining a React interface, live conversations over Socket.IO, and media uploads stored and served from Cloudflare R2.

  • React
  • Socket.IO
  • Cloudflare R2

CareSync

Clinic Appointment & Resource System

Real-time clinic appointment platform on Azure.

Clinic platform with JWT authentication, role-based access control, and live appointment tracking over SignalR. Built on Web API and Entity Framework Core with Azure SQL, and delivered to Azure App Service through GitHub Actions CI/CD.

  • C#
  • ASP.NET Core
  • SignalR
  • Azure

SCAIS

Smart Course Advising System

Desktop system automating academic advising at BIT.

Windows desktop system for Bahrain Institute of Technology that automates academic advising — recommending eligible courses, validating prerequisites and corequisites against academic history, and tracking specialization progress across four IT tracks in a layered C# architecture.

  • C#
  • Windows Forms
  • MySQL

iOS Service Marketplace App

Native iOS marketplace with booking, payments, and reviews.

Native iOS app covering the full marketplace journey — booking, payments, and reviews — with real-time data sync through Supabase and a recommendation system driven by user ratings. Structured around UIKit, Storyboard, and MVC.

  • Swift
  • UIKit
  • Supabase

Off the Dial

3D Puzzle Horror Game

First-person puzzle-horror with adaptive enemy AI.

Atmospheric first-person experience built around stealth, sound-based enemy detection, and adaptive AI that hunts the player across interconnected zones. Engineered in Unity 6 on the Universal Render Pipeline for moody, cinematic lighting.

  • Unity 6
  • C#
  • URP

Movie Review

Film Review & Rating Platform

PHP platform for publishing and managing reviews.

Community platform where authenticated users publish film reviews, upload posters and media, and manage their own contributions, with separate admin and creator roles. Built in PHP with session-based authentication, MySQL, and AJAX interactions.

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • AJAX

HR System

Staff & Department Management

Java desktop suite for staff and departments.

Desktop application designed for a large company's HR department, offering a Swing-based interface to create, search, and maintain staff and department records. Modeled in UML with OOP principles, persisting data through file I/O.

  • Java
  • Swing / AWT
  • File I/O

For product teams

Need a backend that holds up under real traffic?

I help teams shape dependable APIs, data systems, realtime products, and applied AI features.

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Production experience

Work experience

The teams and products I’ve helped build.

4+ years in production

Adraa Inbox

Co-founder

2026 — PresentRemote

unified AI inbox for customer messages

  • Building one inbox for WhatsApp, Instagram, Email, and TikTok DMs, with AI grounded in live product data.
  • Developing the NestJS and PostgreSQL backend and Meta integrations that sync and route messages.
  • Implemented workspace RAG pipelines for uploaded knowledge and accurate, source-aware customer answers.
  • Built a website crawler that indexes products and pages for real-time AI retrieval.

RAIQ

Lead backend developer · Contract

Sep 2023 — PresentRemote

high-traffic e-commerce platform

  • Leading backend development for a platform that passed 1M SAR in revenue in its first ten months.
  • Designing scalable REST and event-driven APIs with Node.js, PostgreSQL, BullMQ, and microservices.
  • Managing Kubernetes deployments and integrations across payments, fulfillment, and logistics.

ProBot

Backend developer

Jul 2022 — Nov 2024Remote

Discord bot installed in 10M+ servers

  • Built high-throughput Node.js APIs backed by PostgreSQL and MongoDB tables exceeding one billion rows.
  • Used Redis caching and session infrastructure for millions of concurrent users and ~2M monthly visitors.
  • Developed real-time WebSocket services and low-latency data pipelines at production scale.

Technical toolkit

Tools & technologies

The stack behind the work.

  • Languages & runtimes

    • TypeScript
    • Node.js
    • C#
    • Java
    • Swift
  • Backend development

    • NestJS
    • Express
    • REST
    • WebSockets
    • BullMQ
  • Databases & storage

    • PostgreSQL
    • MongoDB
    • Redis
    • MySQL
    • Prisma
  • Infrastructure

    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • Microservices
    • CI/CD
  • Applied AI

    • RAG
    • LLM integration
    • Context engineering
  • Payments

    • Tamara
    • Tabby
    • Apple Pay
    • Cards

Learning by building

Education

General Assembly · June 2026 — Sep 2026

Software Engineer Bootcamp

Projects include Chatty, a team communication app with live messaging and shared media.

Bahrain Polytechnic · Sep 2022 — Present

Bachelor of ICT in Programming

Projects across mobile, web, desktop, and games. A favorite is WeLink, a native iOS marketplace built with Swift and UIKit.

Open to collaborations

Ready to build something serious?

Let’s talk about the systems, APIs, or AI tools you’re building.

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Experience built with teams at

  • Adraa Inbox
  • RAIQ
  • ProBot