My career, played as a game. Press start to play.
Press startany button, really. there's one.Ready. Player 1 has almost 7 years of experience. Pick a level
Career mode - five levels at Wajeez
What I worked on
Took my first steps building backend and a mobile app, on the old PHP/Laravel system and on Android. Learned how real teams ship code with Git and Jira.
Skills unlocked
What I worked on
Stopped being the new kid three months in. Speedrun. A few more months on the old PHP and MySQL system, then the big move: rebuilding the platform on .NET Core and PostgreSQL with Clean Architecture, from the living room, while the world was on pause.
Skills unlocked
What I worked on
Built new features and services for busy apps with lots of traffic, plus the tricky database queries behind the reports. Also wired up payments: Stripe, plus Google Play and Apple App Store purchases. This level took the long way round.
Skills unlocked
What I worked on
The go-to person for weird production problems. Connected outside systems and listened for their webhooks, made sure things happen exactly once even when the network misbehaves, set up cron jobs that run while everyone sleeps, and wrote scripts that do other teams' boring work for them.
Skills unlocked
What I worked on
Final Wajeez level, cleared. Led the team and still coded every day, kept code quality and architecture in shape, and built tools that helped teams across the company. Voted Most Valuable Person company-wide.
Skills unlocked
Feb 2020
What I worked on
Took my first steps building backend and a mobile app, on the old PHP/Laravel system and on Android. Learned how real teams ship code with Git and Jira.
Skills unlocked
May 2020
What I worked on
Stopped being the new kid three months in. Speedrun. A few more months on the old PHP and MySQL system, then the big move: rebuilding the platform on .NET Core and PostgreSQL with Clean Architecture, from the living room, while the world was on pause.
Skills unlocked
2022
What I worked on
Built new features and services for busy apps with lots of traffic, plus the tricky database queries behind the reports. Also wired up payments: Stripe, plus Google Play and Apple App Store purchases. This level took the long way round.
Skills unlocked
2024
What I worked on
The go-to person for weird production problems. Connected outside systems and listened for their webhooks, made sure things happen exactly once even when the network misbehaves, set up cron jobs that run while everyone sleeps, and wrote scripts that do other teams' boring work for them.
Skills unlocked
End of 2025 to Jun 2026
What I worked on
Final Wajeez level, cleared. Led the team and still coded every day, kept code quality and architecture in shape, and built tools that helped teams across the company. Voted Most Valuable Person company-wide.
Skills unlocked
Now playing
Part-time freelance R&D for T2. Working on login systems and device fingerprinting, and lately building frontend apps too. I'd tell you more, but then I'd have to write documentation.
Details: classified
Side quests, built after hours
A calm Muslim companion. Locked, but only to make you press a button.
Prayer times and the call to prayer, the Quran, adhkar, du'a, the qibla, a tasbeeh counter and home-screen widgets. Arabic first, ten languages, works offline.
wisal.abutir.com
SawfaFor people with 400 "read later" tabs. You can unlock it now, or later. It'll remind you.
Share a link from any app. Sawfa reminds you later the same day, and keeps nudging until you open it or clear it.
sawfa.abutir.com
GamesThe actual game this whole page is pretending to be. Known in-house as "the only tool that shipped".
Plays on your laptop or your phone. Same game, same leaderboard.
Jump, duck, repeat. An endless runner with a worldwide top 20, installable like an app. Current high score: mine. Come take it.
games.abutir.com
WaktoCalm time tracking for freelancers who bill by the hour.
NICE TRY. Wakto unlocks when Hatim finds the time to finish his time tracker.
Character sheet
Backend main: the part of an app that stores data, sends reminders and does boring jobs on its own so people don't have to. Computer Science at Al-Zaytoonah University, top of the class, then almost seven years levelling up.
Got a weird problem, or a boring job that should do itself? Player 2 can join any time.