About
Tarek Okasha.
I'm a software engineer in Cairo. I build AI systems, automations, and custom internal software for founders and operating teams — the tools a business runs on every day. I take a handful of projects a year and build each one properly: tested, documented, and handed over with an architecture the next engineer can actually read.
I'm not the right call for a vague idea you want someone to figure out. I'm the right call when the problem is real and expensive — a process held together by spreadsheets and goodwill, a workflow quietly eating your team's week, a system your business needs that no vendor sells. Bring me that, and I'll build the thing that makes it go away.
Background
I studied Robotics and Automation Engineering at the German International University. The degree gave me the foundations — control systems, embedded hardware, sensor fusion. The real education came from the things I built while still a student: starting with an auction-pricing model for a friend who resold electronics, a system that taught me more about production constraints in one month than a semester of coursework. Most projects since have had the same shape: a real constraint, limited resources, and a hard requirement that it actually works.
Alongside the robotics work, I was shipping paid software projects — the first at 20. I went independent before graduating because the client work was already more demanding and more interesting than any job I could see ahead of me. Seeing something you built running in a real business, with real people depending on it, is a kind of feedback that sharpens your judgment faster than anything else.
I'm 22. I work with clients across the Gulf, Egypt, and globally. Almost all of them came through referral — which, in my experience, is the only honest measure of whether the work was actually good.
Tools
AI & LLMs
- Claude (Anthropic)
- GPT-4o / o1
- Gemini
- Fine-tuning
- RAG pipelines
- Vector search
- Prompt engineering
- Evals & benchmarking
AI Engineering
- LangChain
- LlamaIndex
- CrewAI
- Computer Vision
- Embeddings
- Function calling
- Pinecone / Weaviate
- OpenAI Assistants API
Automation & Integration
- n8n (self-hosted)
- Zapier
- Make (Integromat)
- GoHighLevel
- WhatsApp Business API
- HubSpot API
- Salesforce API
- Webhook orchestration
Frontend & UI
- Next.js 15
- React 19
- TypeScript (strict)
- Tailwind CSS v4
- Framer Motion
- GSAP
- Three.js
- Figma → code
Backend & Data
- Node.js
- Python / FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Supabase
- Prisma ORM
- REST & GraphQL
- Stripe
Infrastructure
- Vercel / Netlify
- Docker
- Linux (Ubuntu)
- GitHub Actions
- AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda)
- Cloudflare
- CI/CD pipelines
- Monitoring & alerting
How I work
I write the code.
No subcontractors, no 'team of vetted freelancers.' When you hire me, I'm the person on the keyboard. You get my thinking on your problem, not a project manager who escalates to someone you've never met.
Working software in weeks, not pitch decks in months.
I ship weekly demos. You see progress. No surprise invoices at the end of month three. If something isn't working, we know in week two — not week twelve.
If it doesn't move a number, it doesn't ship.
Every system I build has a metric attached. Saved hours. Reduced errors. Faster cycle time. If we can't agree on what success looks like before we start, we don't start.
I say no a lot.
I take on 6 projects a year. Not 20. I'd rather recommend someone better suited than over-commit and underdeliver. Scarcity isn't marketing — it's how good work actually gets done.
Outside work
I lift heavy things and box at the gym — the most consistent thing I do. I read more nonfiction than is probably necessary — currently working through The Systems Mindset: Managing the Machinery of Your Life, which keeps turning up in my work in ways I didn't expect. I'm slowly learning to make a proper espresso. The machine judges me.
Have something to build?