El Rawas

Abdulkader El Rawas · Senior Full-Stack Engineer

The whole product, from first sketch to production.

10 years shipping marketplaces and impact platforms across legal-tech, agriculture, and sustainability, and leading the teams that build them.

Consultation · React / Next.js · Node / NestJS · AWS · AI · CI/CD · Monitoring

EL RAWASGlobalFarmsSustainChain360LEXCotenosAGRICULTURESUSTAINABILITYLEGAL-TECHSPORTS
Legend · dashed route: a product shipped end to end · = in build10+ years shipping products · 6 countries lived & worked in · 20+ engineers led as Tech Lead · 100+ developers mentored

Selected work

Four products, built end to end

Sustainability · USA

SustainChain

Senior Software Engineer · 2025 – 2026

A US public-service platform uniting investors, innovators, government, and non-profits to rebuild supply chains and drive progress toward a sustainable future. Full-stack ownership: React/TypeScript frontend architecture and Kotlin/Ktor backend services on AWS.

React · TypeScript · Material-UI · Kotlin · Ktor · PostgreSQL · AWS Cognito · AWS SES / S3

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Agriculture · Global

GlobalFarms

Tech Lead · team of 15 · 2023 – 2024

A global agricultural marketplace connecting farmers, wholesalers, and consumers across 22+ categories, on web and native mobile. Led a cross-functional team of 15 and the platform's move to a microservices monorepo.

Next.js · NestJS · NX Monorepo · Microservices · AWS EC2 / Route53 · S3 / SES / CDN · JIRA

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Legal-tech · Lebanonin build

360LEX

Freelance Full-Stack Engineer · 2026 – present

A legal-tech marketplace for Lebanon connecting clients with verified notary professionals, with map-based discovery of notary offices and procedures across every Lebanese region, in multiple languages.

Consultation · Next.js · NestJS · i18n · PostgreSQL · Prisma · Testing · Vercel · Render · CI/CD

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Sports · Lebanonin build

Cotenos

Creator · Full-Stack & Mobile · 2025 – present

A sports venue booking platform built end to end as three codebases: a NestJS + Prisma API, a React Native (Expo) app for players and venue owners, and a Next.js dashboard for owners and admins. In closed testing on TestFlight ahead of public release.

React Native / Expo · NestJS · Next.js · Prisma · PostgreSQL · Socket.IO · TypeScript

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Experience

The route so far

  1. Senior Software Engineer · SustainChain

    Sep 2025 – May 2026

    USA · Remote

    • Led frontend development of a React/TypeScript sustainability platform; built and scaled Kotlin/Ktor backend services.
    • Delivered multi-tenant features with capability-based permissions, AWS Cognito auth, and PostgreSQL data models.
    • Improved performance, accessibility, and release quality through testing, static analysis, and CI/CD.
  2. Tech Lead · Tech Quarters

    Dec 2023 – Jul 2024

    Lebanon · Australia

    • Led a cross-functional team of 15 (backend, frontend, mobile, QA) building GlobalFarms; owned technical direction, PR quality, and delivery.
    • Migrated the platform to an NX monorepo with microservices; managed AWS infrastructure end to end.
    • Designed the technical interview process and led hiring, sprint planning, and performance management.
  3. Head of Web Development / CLO · Codi Tech

    Jul 2022 – Feb 2023

    Lebanon

    • Designed and standardized a national full-stack web development curriculum with a 5-year technology vision.
    • Supervised the mentorship process across three cities: Beirut, Tripoli, and Zahle.
    • Led outreach with local and regional companies hiring from Codi's graduate pool.
  4. Full-Stack Engineer · Eve Yemek

    Mar 2021 – Sep 2021

    UK · Turkey

    • Co-designed the architecture and built the backend (NestJS) and frontend (Next.js) of a food-delivery platform.
    • Managed AWS EC2 deployments and mentored junior developers across the stack.
  5. Earlier stations

    • Full-Stack Engineer · Innovation & Partners (Silicon Valley) · 2020–21
    • Full-Stack Engineer · CK Dijital Ajans (Istanbul) · 2020
    • Full-Stack Developer · Cyprus International University · 2017–18

Skills

What I work with

Frontend
Next.js · React · TypeScript · Vue.js · Redux · Tailwind CSS · Material-UI
Backend
Node.js · NestJS · Kotlin / Ktor · Laravel · REST APIs · Microservices
Data
PostgreSQL · Prisma · MySQL · MongoDB · Exposed ORM · Flyway
Cloud & Delivery
AWS (EC2, S3, SES, Cognito, Route53) · CI/CD · NX Monorepos · Testing & Static Analysis

About

Beyond the stack

I'm a Russian-Lebanese engineer who has spent ten years building products end to end, from a university exam-analysis system in North Cyprus to a multi-tenant sustainability platform for a US company. Along the way I've been an IC, a tech lead running a team of fifteen, and head of a web development program that trained developers across three Lebanese cities.

The thread through all of it is marketplaces and platforms with real-world impact: agriculture sourcing, legal services, public programs, education, food delivery. I like domains where software meets messy offline processes. That's where good engineering judgment matters most.

Before industry, I was a researcher: I built the first virtual-reality project in North Cyprus (a VR gamification system supporting anxiety treatment), published on VR perception in education, and was a TÜBİTAK finalist. I speak five languages, have lived and worked in six countries, and mentor developers whenever I get the chance.

Contact

The next route starts here.

Open to senior / staff remote roles. Based in Lebanon · Remote-friendly (GMT+3). The fastest way to reach me is email.

abdulkaderelrawas@gmail.com