Salah Alkhwlani is the CTO of Salla, the leading e-commerce platform in the Middle East, bringing over a decade of hands-on web development and architecture experience to scale high-performance, secure systems. He combines deep full-stack expertise (PHP/Laravel, Node.js, MySQL, JS/TypeScript) with cloud deployment experience on AWS and Aliyun to keep platforms resilient under growth. Known for automating workflows and optimizing performance, he has led teams building real-time services (Socket.io/Redis) and robust RESTful backends while supervising distributed development efforts. His career spans senior engineering roles across e-commerce and SaaS-focused shops, giving him a product-centered approach to technical decision-making. Based in Riyadh, he balances strategic leadership with code-level involvement, often contributing to code reviews, architecture design, and CI/CD automation. A practical problem-solver, he pairs UML-driven planning and unit-tested implementation to turn complex requirements into maintainable, scalable products.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at University of Science and Technology, Yemen
A Laravel middleware to cleaning all inputs/data of request from XSS and embed elements
Contributions:6 releases, 16 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 10 months
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Salah Alkhwlani - CTO at Salla E-Commerce Platform