Alaa Salman
Software Developer Founder at Open Code Solutions
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolAlaa Salman is a seasoned software developer and founder with 13 years of professional experience and over a decade of hands-on engineering across web, mobile, and infrastructure. He specializes in Python/Django and JavaScript/React while maintaining a deep background in Java, C#, Android, and legacy systems, enabling him to revive and scale complex platforms. He has led development teams, acted as CTO for startups, and run a long-standing freelance practice building custom web apps, ETL pipelines, and mobile tools for clients across Australia, North America and the Middle East. Comfortable shifting between customer-facing roles and low-level ops work, he often combines feature development with devops, performance tuning and documentation to reduce tech debt. Notably, his research background in mobile security and intrusion detection informs a security-minded approach to application design. Based in Melbourne, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a pragmatic generalist mindset that turns ambiguous requirements into production-ready systems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at American University of Beirut
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (21)
datetimepicker10
datetime9
datepicker9
discourse8
flarum8
forum8
fast-csv7
django7
python7
docker7
react6
php6
htmx6
responsive6
csv-parser6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ixc/Misago
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 32 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 1 month
reactpythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangoforum
alaasalman/deployer
Jun 2016 - Apr 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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