Ali Harkous

Travel, car rental (Avis/Budget franchise), mobility, and concierge group. Contributing across multiple internal web and mobile platforms.

• Built Kin52 Voucher, a multi-company, multi-agency e-voucher platform using tailored OpenAI prompts to extract structured booking data from uploaded vouchers, with a template engine and flexible block editor for generating branded prepaid and non-prepaid vouchers.
• Shipped features across FleetDrive Pro, a fleet management platform and driver app, spanning attendance, expenses, payroll, fuel, and vehicle assignments, plus driver-app flows for AI-based damage assessment, identity and uniform checks, and GPS speeding alerts.
• Built PettyPro, a petty cash and expense management app for companies to track invoices, petty cash, reimbursements, accounting periods, and transactions.
• Migrated legacy data from a Microsoft SQL database into Odoo, accurately reading the source schema and mapping records to Odoo's PostgreSQL structure.
• Contributed to Kin52 CRM for travel quotes and bookings, surfacing caller information on inbound calls and recommending hotels, deals, and packages.
• Planned and assigned tasks via Jira, reviewed and merged pull requests, and defined branch protection rulesets and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines with automated Neon Postgres migrations, tests, lint, and type-checks.

• Designed and shipped production web applications using Node.js, GraphQL, and TypeScript, contributing across both backend architecture and frontend development.
• Built background job systems with Cron jobs, AWS queues, and Graphile Worker to power scheduled and asynchronous workflows.
• Developed scalable APIs and typed data flows with GraphQL, improving client flexibility and data-fetching efficiency.
• Leveraged advanced TypeScript patterns such as generics and utility types to enforce type safety and support a more maintainable architecture.
• Created polished, animation-rich interfaces with GSAP, Motion, and advanced CSS, delivering responsive and engaging user experiences.
• Integrated external and custom APIs, including Google's Automated Discount API, to support specialized client and product needs.
• Enhanced application performance and content delivery using Cloudflare CDN and caching strategies.

• Established and applied best practices for scalable, maintainable, and high-performance web applications across development and deployment workflows.
• Developed production features using Next.js, leveraging its architecture for improved performance, routing, and frontend reliability.
• Built a WhatsApp-based messaging API workflow that guided users through identity verification via secure links and step-based interactions.
• Implemented the full verification journey, including identification checks, ID scan handling, and workflow logic for a secure user onboarding process.
• Used Docker to standardize containerized environments, improving deployment consistency and cross-stage reliability.
• Partnered with designers and backend engineers to deliver cohesive, intuitive, and production-ready user experiences.