Ammar Alakkad - Senior Frontend Engineer at GitLab

Ammar Alakkad

Senior Frontend Engineer at GitLab

Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

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Ammar Alakkad is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Istanbul with 15 years of software experience and a focused frontend specialization over the past four years after six years as a full-stack developer. At GitLab he maintains the Customers Portal and trimmed CI times while collaborating closely with UX and backend teams to improve product fulfillment and seat/consumables visibility. He brings deep Laravel and localization expertise—contributing Arabic translations to the widely used Laravel-Lang repository—plus hands-on history building high-traffic CMS, SSR/PWA frontends and hybrid mobile apps. Comfortable in remote, cross-functional environments, Ammar pairs practical performance optimizations with a user-centered approach to shipping polished interfaces. Outside work he’s an avid coffee roaster and sourdough baker, reflecting a methodical, iterative mindset he applies to engineering and personal development.

15 years of coding experience

12 years of employment as a software developer

BTEC professional diploma, Computing, BTEC professional diploma, Computing at Edexcel University

BSc, Computing, BSc, Computing at University of Greenwich

Diploma, Networking, 81.07%, Diploma, Networking, 81.07% at Technical Computer College

Arabic, English, Turkish

Github Skills (9)

i18n-js10

localization10

lang10

ember-i18n10

rails-i18n10

laravel10

translation10

laravel-mix10

php9

Programming languages (17)

CSSRustCGoHTMLApacheConfTypeScriptCoffeeScript

Github contributions (5)

Laravel-Lang/lang

Jun 2013 - Dec 2013

List of 126 languages for Laravel Framework, Laravel Jetstream, Laravel Fortify, Laravel Breeze, Laravel Cashier, Laravel Nova, Laravel Spark and Laravel UI.

Role in this project:

Localization / Internationalization Specialist

Contributions:8 commits in 6 months

Contributions summary:Ammar's primary contribution to the repository involves translating and adapting Laravel framework language files for the Arabic language. They added and updated validation, pagination, and password reset messages, along with attribute names for Arabic locales. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving the project's internationalization capabilities by providing accurate translations. This work directly supports the Laravel ecosystem's localization features.

cashiermollietranslationvoyagerlaravel-spark

AmmarCodes/dotfiles-refactored

May 2015 - Nov 2015

Contributions:354 commits, 218 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months

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