Backends & APIs
APIs, background jobs, and data systems for commerce and customer platforms.
See RAIQAhmed Almerri · Backend engineer & systems builder
I design the APIs, data systems, and infrastructure behind products that need to stay fast when the numbers get serious.
Core capabilities
APIs, background jobs, and data systems for commerce and customer platforms.
See RAIQMessaging and live updates that keep conversations and product state in sync.
See ChattyRetrieval pipelines that connect customer questions to product data and team knowledge.
See Adraa InboxCurrent venture
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.
Featured work
Across web, mobile, desktop, and games.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For product teams
I help teams shape dependable APIs, data systems, realtime products, and applied AI features.
Production experience
The teams and products I’ve helped build.
Co-founder
unified AI inbox for customer messages
Lead backend developer · Contract
high-traffic e-commerce platform
Backend developer
Discord bot installed in 10M+ servers
Technical toolkit
The stack behind the work.
Learning by building

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

Projects across mobile, web, desktop, and games. A favorite is WeLink, a native iOS marketplace built with Swift and UIKit.
Open to collaborations
Let’s talk about the systems, APIs, or AI tools you’re building.
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