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Things I've built & shipped

From production cloud infrastructure to full-stack products — a few projects that show the range.

~/work/ride-hailing-platform 01

Ride-Hailing & Taxi-Booking Platform

shipped

DevOps Engineer · Backend · 2024 — 2026

Owned DevOps and backend for a production ride-hailing app — AWS + GCP infrastructure, CI/CD, and Spring Boot services — through to a public launch, while cutting cloud costs by up to 95%.

  • AWS ECS
  • RDS
  • CloudFront
  • GCP
  • Java Spring Boot
  • CI/CD
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~/work/oss-rebrand 02

Open-Source Network Software, Rebranded

shipped

Network / Platform Engineer · 2021 — 2024

Customized and rebranded enterprise network tools — OPNsense, Zabbix, and a ZeroTier controller — into client-specific products, plus Linux packaging for AI/ML agents.

  • Python
  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • OPNsense
  • Zabbix
  • ZeroTier
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~/work/shareef-crochet 03

Shareef Crochet — E-commerce

in progress

Full-Stack Engineer · 2026

A full-stack crochet storefront with an admin dashboard — NestJS + Prisma + PostgreSQL backend, Remix frontend with subtle 3D. Currently in active development.

  • Remix
  • NestJS
  • Prisma
  • PostgreSQL
  • Three.js
  • Tailwind
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~/work/chatty 04

ChatTy — Terminal Chat App

in progress

Solo — Full-Stack · 2023 — Present

A terminal-based, peer-to-peer chat app for Ubuntu & macOS — designed and built solo, by hand, before AI coding tools were part of my workflow. Now being re-engineered with AI-assisted development.

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • MongoDB
  • MQTT
  • Python
  • JWT
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~/work/portfolio 05

This Portfolio

shipped

Design & Build · 2026

An immersive, 3D personal site built on Astro with React Three Fiber islands — near-zero-JS content pages, a WebGL hero, and a built-in product-distribution flow.

  • Astro
  • React Three Fiber
  • Three.js
  • GSAP
  • Tailwind v4
  • MDX
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