Led development at a US Health-Tech startup; secured $2M in funding.
Top Rated Plus, 100% Job Success on Upwork.
National STEM Competition winner.
AWS Certified - AI.
Open for work — contracts, freelance, long-term.
⭐ Highlights
BaskHealth (US, TeleHealth Tech): Led core feature development (e.g., multi-tenant architecture, role-based dashboards), securing $2M in funding.
Trading Platform (Canada, FinTech): Integrated TradingView for real-time visualization, resolving critical bottlenecks and boosting engagement.
Isearch Archive (London, E-Commerce): Improved checkout speed by 1600% (16s to 1s), driving retention and revenue growth.
Manara (#1 Ambassador): Weekly live sessions for ~150 MENA SWE (AWS, LeetCode, frontend challenges).
Community gravity: Kholoud's Live PS-ing (~200) and Adel's Technical Book Club (~150) joined my circles: LeetCode Problem Solving (~450), Manara Group Study (~300) and 
CodeWithHakem weekly live sessions (AWS concepts & architecture, LeetCode, Upwork & freelancing, and more on Excalidraw whiteboards), and 
DSA sessions , 
Upwork mastery videos , Upwork guide , plus a 45k ecom community
✅ Upwork
A professional lead developer“Excellent work, Mohamed Hakem has a great Development, leadership and communication skills, he handles the load and met all deadlines, I enjoyed working with Hakem and will likely have additional jobs for him in the future. Highly recommended.”
USA- Senior Full Stack Developers (JavaScript (React) | Python (Flask | Django))
“Hakem did a Great Job, and will hire him again soon”
USA - Frontend / Devops developers
“Mohamed Hakem was diligent and worked very hard during his time with us. He's a hugely successful contributor to my team, submitted his work on time and with a high level of quality. Great communicator. Would definitely work with him again if the opportunity came available.”
USA - Integration of Three JS trading chart into Next JS front end
“I gave this project to three people, and Mohamed was the first to get it working live! His efficiency in connecting our API and loading historical data was impressive. His communication was clear and consistent, keeping me informed every step of the way.”
Canada - Senior React Developer
“Thanks man!”
USA - NextJS Optimization Performance
“Perfect thank you Mohamed!”
USA - NodeJS AWS Cloudflare and & Time Series APIsCanada
- Salla Custom Development for Nomination.com (Italian Jewellery Brand)
“حلو جدا بجد”
UAE
Testimonials
🏆 Achievements & Certifications
More on my LinkedIn Profile
💼 Work Experience
🚀 Projects
Sllty ↗
A Simpler Shopify Alternative with Growth Tools and Invite-Only Marketplace. Serving a ~45k-member seller community.
Manara Concept ↗
Concept rebuild of manara.tech in Next.js — 2 days, hand-crafted with no AI: speed, spacing, content.
image-sdk.dev
Image SDK toolkit — domain bought, MVP in progress. Stealth WIP.
safething.app
Stealth WIP — details soon.
ImageThing
Image optimization product — stealth WIP. Public endpoint soon with rate limits.
Klist
LeetCode-Blind-75 evolved: 170+ pattern questions, streaks and filters — built for weekly live-session students.
Thndr Calculator
1-page calculator for the Thndr (Egypt's Robinhood) investor community.
🌍 Communities
Free weekly live sessions across communities — everyone welcome, everything free.
- Manara — #1 Ambassador
Manara is a US startup training top software engineers across MENA and connecting them with global tech jobs — backed by Y Combinator, partnered with AWS.
“Thanks so much for running the study group and for sharing the content here Mohamed Hakem!”
— Iliana Montauk, Co-Founder and President at Manara (YC W21)“Thank you so much for all of your amazing effort with Manara!”
— Rawan El-Daour, Community Manager @Manara- 1st Manara Ambassador, Q1’25 — weekly live sessions
Ran 3–5h live Friday sessions for ~150 MENA SWE (AWS paths, LeetCode, frontend challenges); most-active on Circle, ran classroom QA and community challenges.
- YouTube series explaining + promoting Manara
AWS fundamentals and cert prep on @CodeWithHakem — earned 2 AWS certs through the program.
- Concept rebuild of manara.tech ↗
Their platform was slow — rebuilt the concept in Next.js over 2 days, hand-crafted with no AI: speed, spacing, content.
- Perks that kept on giving
Free AWS cert exam vouchers, and hiring pipelines into Google, Scale, Noon, and Spark.
- Weekly DSA live streams
Data Structures & Algorithms sessions for 430+ members.
- Open sessions for every community
Kholoud's Live PS-ing (~200) and Adel's Technical Book Club (~150) joined my circles: LeetCode Problem Solving (~450), Manara Group Study (~300) — freelancing and Upwork, AWS certs, low-level systems, LeetCode and problem solving, live on Excalidraw whiteboards.
- Faces from the weekly sessions
Ahmad Al-Deep • Ameen Dababat • Chelkha Ahmed • Mohamed Elkholy • Mohamed Hima • Waseem Medhat • Amany Fawzy • Oumar Ibrahim • Rawan El-Daour • Sahar Ahmed • Baziz Meriem • Menna Allah Sayed • Abdullah Abuslama • Abrar Fasil • Khadidja Arezki • Khadija Ezzat • Khallad Hafez Youseef • Mazen Alasas • Mina Shendi • Mostafa Shahat • Sohaib Aljazzar • Suleiman Abdullahi • Yusra Ahmed • Hammem Ben Younes • Iliana Montauk • Mariem Ben Youssef • Ali Mansour • Alaa Khouaja • Hossam Hassan • Ahmed Omran • Samira Alkhalili • Abdelrahman Anwer • Anas Moner • Mariam Elsayed • Zahraa Essam • Moamen Gomaa • Mohamed Elgabry • Oussama Arouay • Ranya A. • Younes Azizi • Arsany Ashraf • Shahd Osama • Jazz Salam • Nada Reda • Omnia Mohamed • Youssef Hrouk • Ahmed Elshamy • Ahmed Morgan • Mahmoud Abd-ElBaset • Mohammed Atef • Mohey Eldeen • Youssef Abdullah • Hasnaa Ahmed • Toqa Asedah • Zed • Mohamed Elfar • Amr Shamakh • Mohamed Khaled • Ziad Nasser • Salma Wagdy • Ahmed Mohamed • Hussien Mohammed • Ahmed Elkassas
✏️ Courses I Published
Co-authored with Mohamed Abdelhamied - Lead Software Engineer
🎓 Education
BSc of Computer Software EngineeringHelwan University
Winner of National STEM CompetitionSupreme Council of Universities - Engineering, Cairo University2019
Associate of science Degree in Analytical ChemistryIndustrial Technical Institute - Shubra2018
🛠️ Tech Stack / Skills
Frontend: JavaScript, React, Next.js, TailwindCSS, TypeScript
Backend: Node.js, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Redis, Hono, Drizzle
Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, SQL
Libraries: Auth.js, Redux, ReactFlow, Radix ui, Framer Motion
AI / Agents: Vercel AI SDK, agents orchestration, MCP, RAG
Tools: ClickUp, Slack, Zoom, Notion
DevOps: Docker, Hetzner VPS, GitHub Actions, Sentry
Other: Git, GitHub, Shadcn UI, Problem Solving, Data Structures, Algorithms, Performance Optimization, Responsive Design