Hi, I'm Shahad 👋🏻
I'm a software engineer who enjoys building scalable, production-ready applications from idea to deployment. I love working across the entire stack, from crafting intuitive user experiences and designing reliable systems to solving the engineering challenges that bring products to life.
I like building things. Whether it's a web application, a developer tool, or an automation that solves a real problem, I enjoy turning ideas into something people can actually use.
This is my corner of the internet, where I share what I'm learning, document the projects I'm building, and write about software engineering, product development, and the lessons I pick up along the way. Thanks for stopping by.
Latest Posts
See all postsHow a supply-chain attack stole our CTO's token, rewrote our repositories, and quietly reached my own account — a first-person account of the PolinRider / Glassworm incident, and what it taught me about trust, Git, and backups.
Jul 2, 2026
The technical field report: how a stolen GitHub PAT was used to force-push malware into four repositories I had write access to, how I found it, and the exact commands I used to recover every repo from a clean local copy — and to reconstruct one where I had no local copy at all.
Jul 2, 2026
Work Experience
See all workApr 2025 — Present
Appmaker
Full Stack Developer
Appmaker instantly generates native mobile apps for ecommerce stores. I work across the stack.
- Built scalable backends on Cloudflare Workers (TypeScript, Hono, Durable Objects, D1) with per-project distributed data architectures.
- Own the data layer with Drizzle ORM across SQLite and PostgreSQL — schema design, migrations, auth, and role-based access with BetterAuth.
- Ship core features and internal tooling across a pnpm/Turbo monorepo.
Recent Projects
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Reach out on any of these, or drop me an email.