I build software
the way I built my life:
from scattered pieces.
As a little kid, I was a troublemaker — driving my parents crazy by breaking my toys apart and rebuilding them into something new. Then life took everything apart — and I did it again, with myself.
Chapter I
The kid who broke everything
In our house, no toy survived long. I pulled the motor out of every one of them, collected the parts, and built something new: a blender that spun for a few glorious seconds. A plane that flew for two - then crashed. My parents saw broken toys. I saw inventory.
And I was a real troublemaker. I adored my sisters and my cousins - and in every family photo I would close my eyes on purpose, just to start a fight with them that always ended in laughter and screaming. That's me in the red shirt: eyes closed, as always.
By 2005 I had my first business: buying game CDs, copying them, and selling them to my school friends. I was eleven.
Syria · the beginningChapter II
The formula on the blackboard
In school I fell in love with mathematics. One day I claimed I'd found a new formula for the distance between two parallel lines. My teacher said no such formula existed. He took my paper home with a warning: "Tomorrow, either I tell the class you're brilliant - or you never speak up in my lessons again."
The next morning he walked in without a word, wrote my formula on the blackboard, and said: "Your friend created this."
School, Syria
Chapter III · Baccalaureate, wartime
The revolution had begun. We fled our home; my siblings and I were scattered, each of us somewhere different. I studied for my final exams by candlelight - through heat, cold, and six months without internet. When the results came, they stunned everyone: 232 out of 240. A family of doctors expected medicine. I chose code.
Chapter IV
The decision
Two years of Informatics Engineering at Damascus University. I trained for the ACM programming world championship - algorithms and data structures in C and C++ - while the country grew darker around me.
I had always dreamed of studying in Japan or Germany. One day the dream stopped being a dream and became a plan: I would leave for Germany.
This photo was taken eight months after I arrived in Germany, at the end of 2016 - during a three-month voluntary internship in web development at adesso, a software company in Dortmund. My first steps back into the field.
2016“I arrived with a new language to learn, a degree to redo, and no one to pay my way. So I got to work.”
Chapter V
Every job under the sun
Germany was a restart from zero - new language, foreign country, and I was completely responsible for myself. So I worked. Everything. Security guard, waiter in countless restaurants and cafes, garbage collector for the city, worker in a makeup factory - anything honest that paid for the next month of the dream.
None of it was the plan. All of it built the engineer: discipline, humility, and the certainty that no problem is beneath you.
Germany · 2016-2018
Chapter VI
Starting again, properly
2018: Computer Science at Leibniz Universitaet Hannover - from the beginning, in German. The poorest, hardest, most important years of my life. I worked through every semester of my degree: Swiss Life in my second semester, then HDI, Uniper, Stiebel Eltron. Programming was always the constant.
And on the side, I taught - mathematics and programming for nearly 200 international students who were fighting the same fight I was.
Hannover · 2018 till end of 2022Chapter VII
The defining moment
In 2023 I graduated. Victory in the biggest challenge of my life - a moment of pride for me and for my family, a feeling beyond words. The boy who studied by candlelight had a German computer science degree.
Two months later I started as a Software Engineer at BWS Consulting Group, where I build backend systems today: Spring Boot, MongoDB, Docker, Terraform, Azure DevOps on the Douglas CRM project.
Hannover · 2023 - todayChapter VIII
Beyond the code
I volunteer with multiple NGOs - my way of sending the ladder back down. I co-founded Syrische Stimmen, a non-profit for the integration of Syrians in Germany and development projects in Syria, and I work with Syrmania Assembly - a platform in development that builds a community of Syrian talents and strengthens their role in rebuilding Syria.
I also give online workshops for Syrian students in Syria, sharing my experience with business and studying computer science - so the road I walked is a little clearer for the next one who takes it.
The rest of me: music, swimming, travel, reading, mathematics for its own sake, friends from every corner of the world - and an unshakeable obsession with startups, markets, and what gets built next.
Ongoing
“The boy took machines apart to see how they worked. The man builds them.”
Chapter IX — Today
What I build now
By day: backend engineering at BWS Consulting Group. By night: the same kid with the screwdriver — except now the parts are APIs, databases, and ideas.
CRM backend - Douglas
Backend developer in the CRM department of the Douglas project: RESTful services on a Spring Boot framework with MongoDB, deployed via Docker, Jenkins, and Terraform on Azure DevOps.
Ice-Desk
Multi-store B2B ordering platform for an ice cream factory: admin and employee roles, order board, PDF invoices, bilingual EN/RO interface - plus interactive training guides for the client's staff.
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