Ameer Al Ashhab
Fullstack Engineer & Designer at Civic Marketplace
Amman, Amman, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAmeer Al Ashhab is a Fullstack Engineer and Designer with eight years of experience building polished, user-centered products and frontends for both open-source and GovTech platforms. He’s been a founding design engineer at Cap and a key contributor to high-profile open-source projects like Spacedrive (35k+ stars), translating product vision into component systems, interaction patterns, and production-ready UIs. Comfortable across React/TypeScript frontends and design tools (Figma, After Effects), he blends hands-on engineering with visual craft—often producing prototypes, animations, and marketing art alongside core features. His work history spans early-stage startups and distributed teams, delivering scalable frontends and aligning brand, UX, and technical implementation. Now based in Amman and currently building government procurement infrastructure at Civic Marketplace, he focuses on making complex systems feel beautifully simple. Anecdotally, he prefers fixing terrible designs as much as inventing delightful ones, which shows up in both his code and design revisions.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc (Hons) Interaction Design, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc (Hons) Interaction Design at Norwich University of the Arts
Github Skills (7)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
spacedriveapp/spacedrive
Apr 2023 - Nov 2024
Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:368 reviews, 528 PRs, 762 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ameer primarily focused on front-end development, contributing to the UI components and structure of the Spacedrive application. Their commits refactored the sidebar by separating components into individual files and added keybindings for the search bar. They also implemented improvements to the image slider in the quick preview and updated the location view.
distributed-file-systemfile-explorerrustfile-managerdistributed-systems
Metadit/metadit
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:106 commits, 4 PRs, 64 pushes in 4 months
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