# About Haytham A. Salama

> Experience, products, open source, skills and where his work with AI agents is going.

Page: https://haythamasalama.me/about

Senior Software Engineer at WINCH · SaaS · AI · FinTech · Logistics · Cairo, Egypt

I'm a senior software engineer at WINCH, a logistics platform in Saudi Arabia, working remotely from Cairo. I set up its business and carrier platforms and build the APIs behind their apps and dashboards, along with the core components every product relies on: security, notifications, exports, and the integration engine that connects WINCH to government services, payment gateways and AI models. I evolved the Domain-Driven Design structure the back end follows, and led the move of the old code onto it with the team.

Before WINCH, I built fintech and operations software. At Sanad I built the API and admin dashboard of a real-estate investment platform, from verified investors and a wallet ledger to returns paid on a schedule. At Faris Petrol I built the systems its teams ran on: a vehicle inspection and maintenance system behind thousands of checks a month, CRM and HR systems, bulk card charging for the Clever loyalty app, and IoT control for its car-wash stations. It all started in 2016, building websites for clients as a freelancer.

Today AI is part of how I build: I plan, write and review code with coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor, and at WINCH I write the agents and skills our engineers code with. Outside work, I'm building Runarks, my own product for governed access to production databases, and I'm part of the Nuxt UI team.

## Experience

### Senior Software Engineer · WINCH

Feb 2023 – now · Full-time · Jeddah, Saudi Arabia · Remote

A logistics platform in Saudi Arabia. https://winch.sa/

- Set up the business and carrier platforms, and build the APIs behind their apps and dashboards.
- Built the platform's core components: security, notifications, exports, and the integration engine that connects WINCH to government platforms like Tamm, Yaqeen and ZATCA, payment gateways and AI models.
- Shaped the Domain-Driven Design structure the back end follows, keep evolving it, helped the teams move the legacy code onto it, and review pull requests to keep it consistent.
- Write the AI agents and skills our engineers code with: they teach coding agents our Domain-Driven Design rules, scaffold new features in that structure, and review changes against it.
- Proposed the shared UI package both dashboards use, led its build and maintain it.
- Lead small teams that take features to production.

### Full-stack engineer · Sanad

May 2024 – May 2025 · Part-time · Jeddah, Saudi Arabia · Remote

A real-estate investment platform; I built its API and admin dashboard. https://investsanad.sa/

- Designed and built the API on Domain-Driven Design, so every financial transaction stays reliable.
- Built the parts where money moves: a wallet ledger that traces every riyal, investing in one step, and returns paid to every investor; and the admin dashboard on my own.
- Built investor identity verification through the government Absher integration, and integrated payment gateways with the security and compliance financial systems need.

### Full-stack developer · Faris Petrol Company

Nov 2019 – May 2023 · Full-time · Palestine · On-site

The company's internal systems, from its maintenance workshops to its wash stations. https://fpco.co/

- Built the vehicle inspection and maintenance system for the company's workshops, handling thousands of inspections a month across several branches, with a dashboard for every branch, technician and supervisor.
- Built the CRM and HR systems with one other developer: calls, tickets and store visits in one place, and attendance turned into shifts.
- Built IoT control for the company's car-wash stations: a Raspberry Pi at every bay, driven by one server that checks the customer's card.
- Built a test-driven system that charges Clever cards in bulk, one queued job per card.

### Full-stack developer · Patric Technology

Dec 2019 – Feb 2023 · Part-time · Palestine · On-site

Designed and built clever.ps, support.clever.ps, wepatric.com and more for clients. https://wepatric.com/

### Web developer · Freelance

Apr 2016 – Feb 2018 · Remote

More than 16 custom websites: my first lessons in full-stack work and in talking to clients.

## Open source

Maintainer roles, merged pull requests and contributor ranks, live from GitHub: https://haythamasalama.me/open-source.md

## Skills

- **AI & agents**: Claude Code, Cursor, Claude, Gemini
- **Languages**: PHP, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, C
- **Back end**: Laravel, NestJS, Pest, Spring Boot
- **Front end**: Vue, Nuxt, Inertia.js, Tailwind CSS, Sass
- **Data**: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, GraphQL
- **DevOps**: AWS, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare, Docker, CI/CD pipelines
- **IoT**: Raspberry Pi, Arduino

## Education

- **Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering**, Al-Azhar University · Gaza (2019 – 2024)

## Awards

- **Research Excellence Award**, Ministry of Education, West Gaza Directorate (2017). For the interactive physics program I built for a study of tenth-grade students.

## Organizations

- [Nuxt](https://github.com/nuxt)
- [aug-projects](https://github.com/aug-projects)

## Vision

**From building software to building intelligence.** For years I've built platforms that move money and deliveries. My next step is a master's degree in artificial intelligence, to go from software that processes data to systems that learn from it, starting with the fintech and logistics problems I know best.

## Contact

- [GitHub](https://github.com/haythamasalama)
- [X](https://x.com/haythamasalama)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/haythamasalama)
- [Medium](https://medium.com/@haythamasalama)
- [Email](mailto:haythamasalama@gmail.com)