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 five production platforms — marketplaces, multi-tenant SaaS, and native + web systems — 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.
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 all 5 projects.
// 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.