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Hi, I'm Ismail.
I'm a full-stack engineer who loves building things I'd find useful myself.
most of these started as a problem I had
I've been a software engineer since 2022. I build apps for myself first, and I spend most of my time making them easy to use.
What I'm working on now
Getting Gradatim, my health and money app, onto the App Store.
Things I've built.
01GradatimiPhone · 2026My health, workouts, food and spending in one app. Swift
02Career Memory BotTelegram · 2026An AI bot that keeps track of your wins at work. TypeScript, Claude API
03User RadarWeb · 2026Uses AI to find people online who have the problem your app solves. TypeScript, Claude API
04Car hire contractsTelegram · 2025Send the details, get a contract back ready to sign. TypeScript
05RideoutMobile · 2022One place for all your cycling club rides. Node.js, React Native
06Literature ScraperWeb · 2021Finds research papers on a topic and ranks them by your keywords. Python
Blog.
All posts →What side projects taught me.
Make it easy to use.If an app is hard to use, people only put up with it when there's nothing else.
Building it is the easy part.Finding people who want to use it is the hard part.
Use it yourself first.If I enjoy using it, other people probably will too.
Work.
- 2023 to now
- AskPorter
I started on the front end, then got some experience on the back end. Now I work full stack. - 2022 to 2023
- Capgemini
Software engineer
What I use.
- To build
- Claude Code, Claude Design
- At work
- TypeScript, Express APIs, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Terraform
- Side projects
- React, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL
- Learning as I go
- Swift and SwiftUI, through Gradatim
- Also used
- Supabase, MongoDB, Redis, Stripe, Telegram bots, Python