Software engineer building
thoughtful software.
I'm Zaid — based in Amman, Jordan. I founded Learnify Technologies, a livestream community where young builders, creators, and self-starters work together — live. By day, I write software at Whispers Global.
Selected work
02Learnify Technologies
2024 — NowFounder · Engineering lead· 2024 — NowA livestream community for youth — where builders, creators, and self-starters work live, side-by-side. Real-time spaces, shared focus, and a layer of structure on top of unstructured creativity.
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2024Software engineer· 2024A booking platform for travel and adventure experiences. Designed the booking flow, built the API, and shipped a system that holds up under spiky, calendar-driven demand.
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More work — including consulting and shipped features at Whispers Global — available on request.
Recent writing
All postsBoring stacks win
Apr 22, 2026On choosing tools you can debug at 2am, and why novelty is a liability in production.
Engineering·4 min· Apr 22, 2026The tradeoffs of being a founder-engineer
Mar 8, 2026What I learned shipping Learnify while still writing code as my primary role.
Building·6 min· Mar 8, 2026The shape of good code
Feb 14, 2026Naming, locality, and the small disciplines that compound into a codebase you trust.
Engineering·5 min· Feb 14, 2026
Tools
What I reach forLanguages
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- SQL
Frameworks
- Next.js
- React
- Node.js
Data
- PostgreSQL
- Prisma
- Redis
Platform
- Vercel
- AWS
- Docker
I prefer boring, well-understood tools over novelty. They're easier to reason about, easier to debug at 2am, and easier for the next person who has to read the code.