Work
Built, shipped,
or still in the oven.
Side projects are how I test ideas faster than a roadmap allows. Some became products, some became lessons, a couple became businesses. Everything here is mine — no client work disguised as a portfolio piece.
Aya
Quran verse API with translations and word-by-word breakdown
A small, fast API for random Quran verses with multiple translations and word-by-word morphology — so that recitation apps get clean structured data instead of scraped text.
Visit Aya ↗MNZL
Smart home design and installation studio
Consultation, design and installation of smart home systems — from network foundations to scenes that people actually use. The business side of a long-running home automation obsession.
Visit MNZL ↗Sarmad Digital
Independent engineering studio (UK LTD)
The vehicle for consulting work: architecture reviews, AI agent systems and platform engineering, for teams that need senior hands on the hard parts.
Visit Sarmad Digital ↗Prime
Self-hosted agent infrastructure
A Hermes Agent deployment on a Mac mini that runs my automations, watches the house through Home Assistant, and keeps a shared memory layer across machines. Infrastructure as a hobby that occasionally becomes a product.
Details on request →Day-to-day engineering lives inside Salla — e-commerce infrastructure, identity and payment rails that aren't mine to open-source. If you want the longer version of any of these, ask me.