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Gasser Gadabdelkader / Software engineer / Brooklyn, NY

Gasser Gadabdelkader, software engineer. Buildingsoftwarethat ships.

Software engineer and 2026 CUNY computer science grad. I build whole apps, from the database to the interface, then test them, secure them and put them in production.

Open to roles · remote anywhere in the US, or NYC in person or hybrid

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0automated tests across my live apps
0apps live in production
0languages LingoBuddy translates
A/A-core CS coursework, CUNY
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01About

I'm Gasser, a software engineer based in Brooklyn, New York. I build the whole thing: interfaces people can actually use, APIs that stay up when everything upstream is slow, payroll that can never pay twice, and the tests and servers that keep it all running.

B.S. Computer Science, CUNY College of Staten IslandEnglish and ArabicRemote across the US, or NYC in any format

02Selected work

Shipped, live, and tested.

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01 · Jan 2026 to now

CompenStation

Payroll for small teams

  • Owned the backend, API and security on a five-person team, then rebuilt it solo.
  • One database transaction per run, with row locks and a unique constraint. Nobody gets paid twice.
  • Money in cents, scrypt hashing, CSRF checks, rate limits, audit log.
  • 45 automated tests, 27 of them against a real PostgreSQL database, plus CodeQL and gitleaks in CI.
Node.jsExpressPostgreSQLZodDocker
Live appCodechecking
02 · Mar 2026 to now

CS2 H2H

Head-to-head stats for FACEIT players

  • Finds every match two players shared as teammates or opponents. FACEIT doesn't show this.
  • Search suggestions as you type, with keyboard and screen reader support.
  • Caching, rate limiting and request queueing survive a slow upstream API.
  • Versioned releases, a changelog and 76 tests on every pull request.
Node.jsExpress 5FACEIT APICodeQLv1.1.1
Live appCodechecking
03 · 2026 to now

LingoBuddy

Live chat translation for games

  • Electron overlay that reads World of Warcraft's chat log as it's written.
  • Detects each message's language and translates only the foreign ones, across 24 languages.
  • Companion Lua addon flags translated messages in game.
  • Being rebuilt from scratch for World of Warcraft: Forever.
ElectronLuaTranslation APIs
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Always building something.

Smaller tools, coursework and experiments live on GitHub.

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03Stack

Front to back, and everything around it.

Backend

Node.js and Express APIs that treat correctness as a feature: transactions, validation, and errors that say what happened.

simplified from CompenStationawait db.transaction(async (tx) => { const period = await tx.lockPeriod(id); // row lock if (period.paid) throw new AlreadyPaid(); for (const e of period.approved) { await tx.insertStub(calcCents(e)); // no floats } await tx.markPaid(id); // unique constraint });

Security

Owned security on the team project, and built the same habits into everything since.

scrypt hashingHttpOnly sessionsCSRFCSPrate limitingaudit logCodeQLgitleaks

Testing and CI

  • linteslint
  • testsnode:test
  • npm auditdeps
  • CodeQLsast
  • gitleakssecrets

Data

Schema design, indexing, transactions and safe queries.

PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedis

Down to the metal

C, C++ and Pthreads on Linux, and ARM (LEGv8) assembly from Computer Architecture.

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Frontend

Interfaces that work for everyone, like H2H's search suggestions with full keyboard and screen reader support.

ReactHTMLCSSJavaScriptBootstrapThree.js

AI

Claude API and Model Context Protocol, with four Anthropic course certificates.

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Shipping it

Both apps run on my own Linux server, not a click-to-deploy platform. I set up the server, HTTPS and health checks myself.

  1. git push
  2. lint + tests
  3. CodeQL scan
  4. Linux server
  5. live on HTTPS

04Journey

How I got here.

Freelance Discord developer

Built custom bots for clients (moderation, custom commands), set up roles and permissions, and connected servers to outside services with webhooks.

Warehouse associate, Amazon

Picked, packed and quality-checked orders on a high-volume floor in Brooklyn.

CompenStation begins

A five-person team project. I owned the backend, API routing and security, and my teammates built on my endpoints.

CS2 H2H, first release

A solo, open-source tool for FACEIT players, built because the stat I wanted didn't exist.

B.S. Computer Science, CUNY College of Staten Island

Core coursework finished with A and A- grades. Computer Science Club and Esports Club.

Operating Systems + LabComputer ArchitectureDatabase SystemsSoftware EngineeringCybersecurity FundamentalsDigital Systems DesignData StructuresAlgorithms

Anthropic course certificates

Building with the Claude API, Introduction to MCP, MCP Advanced Topics, and Introduction to Subagents.

Both apps go live on gassergad.com

CompenStation and CS2 H2H move to their own homes. H2H 1.1 ships with search suggestions.

Rebuilding LingoBuddy, and looking for my first team

Open to backend, full-stack and front-end roles, plus security, DevOps and cloud, QA and test automation, and IT support.

05Contact

Let's build something real.

Hiring, collaborating, or just want to talk shop? I reply fast. Remote anywhere in the US, or remote, hybrid or in person in New York City.

hello@gassergad.com
LinkedIn GitHub Resume (PDF)

Brooklyn, NY · --:--English · Arabic