Robotics & Automation Engineer.
I build systems that run without supervision — six-axis industrial robots, AI automations, and the custom software companies actually operate on. Engineered with the discipline of robotics, shipped like production software.
Most engineers pick a side: the machine or the business. I work the whole chain — from a gripper closing on a physical object to the invoice that object generates three systems later.
That range started with robotics. A six-axis arm is the most honest system you can build — either the gripper closes on the object or it closes on air. There is no hiding a bad abstraction behind a loading spinner. I brought that standard to everything after it: enterprise AI automation, custom ERP and management platforms, and full brand presences for the companies I partner with.
in production
every week
live workflows
motion planning
What I build
02 — CapabilitiesRobotics & Automation
Industrial manipulators from perception to motion. Collision-free planning, grasp sequences, and a simulation that mirrors the hardware so the real arm only ever runs code that already worked.
AI Systems & Automation
Not fragile scripts. Workflows with error handling, logging, and failure alerts — LLM classification, agentic pipelines, and fine-tuned models that hold up at enterprise volume.
Full-Stack & Custom Software
Front to back, database to interface — ERP, learning platforms, management systems and internal tools for companies the off-the-shelf market ignores. Multi-tenant, Arabic-first, offline-capable when the site has no signal.
Web, WordPress & Brand
Full presences, not just pages. Storefronts and marketing sites, plus the identity and tone of voice that hold them together — for brands I build once and keep building with.
Selected work
03 — Seven systems, robots to storefronts2026
Voice-controlled 6-DOF robotic arm
I led three engineers building a real-time voice-to-motion pipeline — Alexa to AWS Lambda to the Claude API to ROS 2 and MoveIt 2. URDF models and inverse kinematics for precise end-effector positioning, validated in RViz before it ever touched hardware.
2026
A production medical platform, seven integrated modules
Lead software engineer on the full stack — React, Node.js, Express and MySQL — with role-based access control and complete Arabic RTL for MENA deployment. A Claude-powered reporting layer turns injury, vitals and rehabilitation data into clinical insight the medical staff actually acts on.
2026
A full learning platform for business and commerce students
Two tracks and seven year-stages, each student seeing only their own curriculum. Ordered lesson plans, per-lesson progress, and manual device authorisation so one account stays one student. Arabic-first, right-to-left throughout.
2025
Multi-tenant ERP running live across two countries
Projects, inventory, payroll, procurement, machinery, vendors and reporting in one system. Isolated tenant data, multi-currency in EGP and USD, role-based access, audit logging, and a bilingual Arabic/English interface replacing fragmented spreadsheets with one source of truth.
2025
Automation across CRM, comms, scheduling and payments
Workflows wired through APIs, webhooks, Python and JavaScript, connecting the systems the team already ran on rather than replacing them. Error handling, logging and failure alerts on every one, documented so a non-technical manager can read what runs.
2025
AI photography studio for a jewelry brand
A fine-tuned generation pipeline that learned one brand's exact light. Raw phone photo in over WhatsApp, bilingual catalog entry out — inside the hour.
2025
PLC-controlled bottle filling and sorting station
Ladder-logic automation to IEC 61131-3 across filling and sorting — sensors, actuators, conveyors and e-stop safety interlocks. HMI screens for monitoring, diagnostics and manual override, modelled on Siemens workflows.
Brands, end to end
04 — Presence & partnershipSome work isn't a system — it's a whole presence. Identity, voice, storefront, and the software running underneath it, built as one thing rather than four separate briefs.
QX Media
A Saudi marketing house I built the presence for from the ground up — the bilingual Arabic/English site on a custom WordPress theme, the brand system, and the tone of voice running through everything they publish. Not a delivery and a handshake: an ongoing partnership.
The 965 Collection
An Arabic-first toy store for Kuwait: 25+ categories, shop-by-age from 0 to 9+, and fourteen licensed brands. KNET or cash on delivery, 24-hour nationwide delivery, and ordering straight through WhatsApp.
Home and commercial fitness: racks, weights and flooring, martial-arts gear, cardio and smart trainers. Ten category groups, plus a gym design and fit-out service with certified warranty.
PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo alongside custom gaming PC builds — components, peripherals, monitors, game cards and collectibles. Bilingual storefront with Google sign-in and live configuration.
How the work
actually goes
Diagnose before proposing
I find where the hours actually go — not where you think they go. Most engagements start with me watching the process run once, end to end, and naming the two or three places worth fixing first.
Architect the seams
Decouple the layers and define the contract between them. It's why a voice command and a keyboard press hit the same robot pipeline, and why swapping a model or a vendor later doesn't mean a rebuild.
Ship in phases, in the open
Highest-pain module first, live within weeks, then the rest in batches with observation periods between. You get value before the project ends, and adoption happens while I'm still there to fix it.
Hand over something maintainable
Plain-language documentation for every workflow, failure alerts that reach a human, and logging you can actually read. The measure of the job is whether it keeps running after I stop watching it.
About
06 — Cairo, Egypt · Working remote
I'm Tarek — an engineer who ended up responsible for whether things actually work.
Robotics and automation is where I trained and where the standard came from. Building a UR5e that hears a spoken command, locates an object with a depth camera, plans a collision-free path and closes a gripper around it teaches you something no web project will: the system either works or it doesn’t, and it tells you immediately.
Since then I've taken that same instinct into the businesses around me — decouple the layers, define the contract between them, and make the thing observable enough that when it breaks you know exactly where to look. That's how I built a medical platform running on seven integrated modules, a multi-tenant ERP live across two countries, automation that cut a team's manual workload by more than half, and the brands I now partner with.
The work splits three ways now. Robotics and automation engineering. AI systems and custom software for operators who never found anything off the shelf that fit. And whole brand presences for the companies I partner with — QX Media in Riyadh, and the three 965 storefronts in Kuwait.
“A robot is the most honest system you can build. Either the gripper closes on the object or it closes on air.”
Let's build something that runs itself.
Tell me the process that's costing you the most hours, or the machine you want to move on its own. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right person to build it.
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