Curriculum vitae
Mahmoud Attia
Founder of nqrah · Final-year medical student · Full-stack engineer
Summary
Final-year medical student and full-stack engineer building nqrah, an Arabic-first commerce platform for cash-on-delivery markets. Experience across product, engineering, cloud, security, AI and e-commerce operations, with a track record of EGP 500K+ in online sales and a 97% delivery rate.
Experience
Founder · nqrah
2025 – present- Building an Arabic-first, multi-tenant commerce platform for Egypt and the Middle East: AI store design, COD-native operations, cost-capped AI and tenant isolation.
- Launched the public beta on 10 October 2026. Accepted into startup programmes from AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud.
Founder · nqrah design
- Interior design studio delivering drawings, walkable 3D models, schedules and a private client portal as one package.
Full-stack engineer · Independent
2022 – present- Designed and built bilingual websites for Nation Engineering (Abu Dhabi), Smart Zone (Abu Dhabi) and Arkan Al Majarra (Dubai) with Astro, plus custom team dashboards for Nation Engineering and Smart Zone.
- Built the FOMSU research site for the Faculty of Medicine, Suez University, with Next.js: accessible charts, a quiz and a presentation mode.
Co-researcher and design lead · Faculty of Medicine, Suez University
2026- Co-authored a pre-post study of energy drinks, vital signs and cognition in 47 adults.
- Planned and designed the presentation, the official poster and the research website, and co-presented the study at the 4th Student Research Symposium.
Co-founder, media buying and operations · E-commerce business (family)
- Ran media buying and most of the operations. Passed EGP 500K in sales in a short time with strong margins.
- Built a shipment-tracking automation that messaged customers at every step, raising the delivery rate to 97%.
Education & training
- Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBCh)Faculty of Medicine, Suez University · Degree · final year
- CS50: Introduction to Computer ScienceHarvard University · Course
- Cloud trainingAmazon Web Services · Courses
- Cloud trainingMicrosoft Azure · Courses
- Cloud trainingGoogle Cloud · Courses
- AI certificatesAMD · Certificates
- Web development trackOsama Elzero (Elzero Web School) · Courses
- Python programmingIbrahim Adel · Course
Skills
- Engineering
- TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Astro, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Python
- Cloud & DevOps
- Docker, Traefik, Linux, Cloudflare, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
- Security
- Tenant isolation, secret vaults, passkeys and 2FA, audit logs, security headers
- AI
- LLM integration (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini), cost controls, privacy-first prompting
- Business
- Media buying, COD operations, shipping and settlement, product management
Languages
Arabic (native) · English (professional)