Mo Abualruz.

I'm Mo — engineer, occasional manager, full-time system whisperer. 15+ years of shipping backend systems from national healthcare digitisation (HAKEEM) to Germany's largest loan marketplace (auxmoney), by way of Wikipedia, an event-driven multiplayer game backend at Bytro, and an EHR/EMR suite I founded and led (AFAQ, rolled out at Prince Sultan Cardiac Centre in KSA). Born 1987, Jordanian + Egyptian, married, based in Hamburg.

I lead with a "Playing Captain" philosophy: hands-on in the code, making the architecture, enabling the team to run without me. I've managed a 12-person engineering org, mentored senior engineers into leads, and written MUMPS routines for VistA EHR the same year I was writing Vue components and Kotlin services. Polyglot by necessity, opinionated by taste.

Between W-2 seats since Wikimedia wrapped (April 2025), I ship harder than most people do inside roles: Fulcrum (local-first agent control plane), Crispy-Tivi (Flutter + Rust IPTV), raise (Go CLI swapping configs across 17 AI tools), and the site + homelab you're reading this on. Consulting on AI-assisted engineering workflows and LLM-driven backend automation.

If there's a broken pipeline, a vague spec, or a team that needs unsticking — that's my Tuesday. I like systems that are boring to operate and exciting to read about. I like engineers who can explain their own code in one sentence. I like coffee that offends at least one Italian.