Seif Kamal

Seif Kamal

Product Engineer in Manchester, UK

A user-centric software engineer and artist.

Contact

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Writing

2023

I write up brief notes about anything I learn or make on my site.

Work Experience

2024 — Now
2019 — Now
Remote (Manchester, UK)

Created web applications¹ and art for chart topping mobile games like Pocket Estimation² with millions of users worldwide.

¹ pocketestimation.com
² apps.apple.com/eg/app/pocket-…

2023 — 2023
Remote (London, UK)

Joined on a 3 months contract to help put the flagship B2B SaaS¹ into maintenance mode.

Extended contract in order to help build and launch a new B2C offering²: An AI-native, rich data processing and visualisation app.

Successfully saw the launch of the MVP, having worked with the team to research, plan, design, and develop the product.

¹ progression.co
² weeknotes.fun

2021 — 2023
Manchester, UK

Created and owned the in-house React UI kit¹.
Co-lead the rewrite of the main web application into a responsive, React PWA.
Worked with external accessibility auditors to ensure the site is AA WCAG certified.

Main Tech: React, (Semantic) HTML, CSS, Go.

¹ ui-kit.wakelet.com

2018 — 2021
Manchester, UK

Designed and built a fully tested and scalable checkout system that powers the payment and ticketing flows for major shows in West End and Broadway theatres, as well as provide an analytics API and dashboard.

Ported the backend infrastructure from manually created AWS entities into CloudFormation code. Introduced scaling, rollback, monitoring, and security policies to ensure service reliability and autonomy.

Main Tech: Node (JS/TS), PHP, AWS, Docker, React, MongoDB, SQL.

2016 — 2018
Manchester, UK

Worked on ecommerce projects for high profile UK retailers from start to finish, planning and building various fullstack features along the way.

Main Tech: PHP, Docker, SQL, JS, Magento.

2015 — 2015
Arabic/English Interpreter & Translator at Debonair Languages
UK (Multiple Locations)

During the Syrian Refugee Crisis, I interpreted legal and medical documents on behalf of refugees as well as translate between them and their government assigned representatives.

Side Projects

2024

Practice typing on random inspirational quotes.

2023

A series of mini experiments and art projects performed on an HTML Canvas.

2023

A collection of 3D scenes made using just CSS.

2023

A minimal web-based audio sampler/groove box.

2023

Write your thoughts down and throw them away.

2023

A minimal stylesheet for creating HTML presentations.

2020

Co-designed the game UX, created the soundtrack, and co-wrote its lore.

2020

My 2020 Covid lockdown project: I had some free time and decided to learn Unity.

2020

A command line client for generating disposable email addresses.

2020

A command line ASCII drawing tool.