Solo by design, senior by default.
Makhloof Studio is a boutique software studio led by Mahmoud Makhlouf, a senior full-stack engineer. The model is deliberate: one principal engineer who delivers agency-quality systems using modern tooling and AI — so clients get senior judgment end to end, not a layer of project managers between them and the code.
Across seven production projects — marketplaces, multi-tenant SaaS, native + web systems, and premium landing pages — the throughline is the same: ship the whole thing, get the hard parts right, and leave clients with a business that runs, not a prototype that demos.
Less ceremony, more signal.
Senior on every line
No work handed down to juniors. The person who scopes your project is the person who builds it — so judgment, not headcount, drives the result.
AI as leverage, not a crutch
Modern tooling and AI compress the busywork, so a single senior engineer can deliver what used to take a small team — without sacrificing quality.
Systems, not screens
Auth, payments, real-time state, ledgers, DevOps — the unglamorous parts that make software actually run a business get the same care as the UI.
Experience & Education.
Software Engineer
Devolva (Egypt)Engineer on the team behind a secure digital fund and payment platform for the Fund for Improving Social & Health Care Services, Ministry of Interior (صندوق تحسين خدمات الرعاية الاجتماعية والصحية). Feature development, maintenance, production issue resolution and support for the offices using it.
Full Stack & ERP Developer
Barkotel (Egypt) · 1 yearEngineer on the team behind a unified procurement ecosystem for the General Administration of Supply & Warehouses, Ministry of Interior (وزارة الداخلية), spanning multi-vendor RFQ and negotiation plus a full supply-chain back office.
Node.js Developer
1 yearEngineered scalable backend services, APIs, and business logic using Node.js.
Flutter Developer
Egypt & Saudi Arabia · 3 yearsShipped multiple production-grade cross-platform native applications for iOS and Android using Flutter.
B.Sc. Software Engineering
Faculty of Electronic Engineering (FEE)Graduated as an engineer from the Software Engineering Department.
The tools behind the results.
The eight technologies that show up most across the work — ranked by how often they ship real product, not by how many logos fit on a page.
- TypeScript·5
- Next.js·4
- Node.js·4
- Flutter·3
- PostgreSQL·3
- NestJS·2
- Supabase·2
- Docker·3
● Bilingual Arabic-RTL + English, everywhere — across the portfolio.
// Let's build
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Tell me what you're building. I'll come back with an approach, a rough timeline, and a ballpark — usually within 24 hours.