WALID ADRA

Full-stack developer based in Lebanon, building production-ready applications on modern JavaScript stacks. Experienced shipping real systems under deadlines — SaaS platforms, real-time trading interfaces, end-to-end full-stack products. Below is the short version of how I got here.

1. Origin Tripoli, Lebanon

   Where it started

   Grew up in Tripoli. No bootcamps, no visible path into software. Picked up a laptop, opened YouTube, and started typing HTML into a file to see what happened. That first <h1> showing up in a browser was the hook.

2. Self-taught 1,000+ hours

   Learning by breaking things

   HTML → CSS → JavaScript → React. Built things, broke them, read the errors, googled the errors, built them again. No instructor, no curriculum — just docs, open-source repos, and a lot of stubbornness. That muscle is the one I rely on most today.

3. First role Telecloud internship

   First production code

   Joined Telecloud as an intern. First time seeing how software actually ships — code review, git flow, deploy pipelines, real users on the other end of a bug. The gap between "works on my machine" and "works in production" became the thing I cared most about closing.

4. 3 months ArisAI — AI trading SaaS

   Led frontend delivery, production scale

   Joined an AI trading platform mid-build and took ownership of frontend delivery under tight deadlines — 15+ production pages including real-time chat, signal rooms, trading dashboards, and the content engine. React, TypeScript, Socket.io integrating with a NestJS backend. Owned product-critical surfaces end-to-end.

5. Solo build MyPizza — myypizza.com

   Full-stack platform, end-to-end

   Built a production restaurant ordering platform from scratch — authentication, real-time order handling, admin dashboard, payments, push notifications, gamification, dual currency, PWA, Redis caching, 10+ integrated systems. Node.js + Next.js + Supabase on cloud infrastructure. End-to-end ownership of architecture, delivery, and post-launch support.

6. Now WebRift + AI Content Studio

   Building, teaching, compounding

   Turned the work into WebRift — a small agency where I build production apps for founders. In parallel I'm running an AI Content Studio I built from scratch (16 dashboards, 14 APIs, a local Neo4j knowledge graph that grows with every script, video, and topic I feed it, n8n automation) to document the craft. The whole site you're on right now is part of that loop: build, ship, teach, repeat. Tutorials, courses, and videos coming soon.

I focus on delivering production-ready features quickly, integrating into existing systems, and building scalable architecture that holds under real usage. Comfortable working under tight deadlines, taking ownership of frontend or full-stack systems, and shipping without hand-holding.

1. Frontend React · Vue · TypeScript

   Production-grade UI engineering

   Component systems, responsive UI, state management, real-time interfaces. Built 15+ complex data-dense pages for ArisAI's trading platform and full PWA for MyPizza — both shipped under deadline to real users.

2. Backend & Systems Node.js · REST · WebSockets

   Full-stack delivery, not just UI

   REST APIs, auth flows, payments, real-time order handling, caching strategies, data integrations. Node.js on the server side of MyPizza; NestJS integration on ArisAI. Comfortable owning the full vertical slice when that's what ships fastest.

3. Cloud & Delivery Deployment · CI/CD · Production fixes

   Ship, monitor, iterate

   Cloud-deployed SaaS products with real users on the other end. Experience with debugging production issues, rolling fixes out under pressure, and maintaining clean, maintainable code that the next engineer can read without calling me.

4. Collaboration Agile · Remote · EMEA-friendly hours

   Works well with teams

   Comfortable in agile, collaborative environments — standups, code review, git flow, integrating with designers and backend teams. Based in Lebanon, available across EMEA hours for contract and freelance work.