Mahmoud Galal aka krokingSenior Backend / Platform EngineerPlatforms I architected end-to-end, products that reached real users, and the small tools I open-sourced because I got tired of rewriting them.
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Architect · Team lead
Architected CRCL and led a team of four to build it. I owned the core API — ticketing, event lifecycle, payments — and the decisions underneath it.
A preprocessor for your inbox — allowlists, paywalls, spam
Same mailbox, a much quieter inbox. hi.new sits in front of your email with allowlists, paywalls and spam filtering. It reached #3 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.
Architect
Designed from a blank page: stack choice, infrastructure, cost model, and the team that kept it running. Serves the MENA region at six figures of monthly readership.
Mentoring platform, architecture to production
Built a mentoring platform for a client from architecture through to production and handover.
Dynamic OG image microservice used by 20+ sites
One small service that renders social preview images on demand. Built once at Dbrandria, then reused across more than twenty properties.