Wael Alshurafa
Co-Founder & CEO at Araba E-Commerce Platform
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolWael Alshurafa is an engineering leader and entrepreneur with over 11 years of hands-on software development and 15+ years of experience shaping scalable systems, now serving as Co-Founder & CEO of Araba and Software Engineering Manager at Booking.com. He bridges product and engineering, driving product innovation, go-to-market strategy, and technical excellence while building teams that reliably deliver customer-focused solutions. His background spans full-stack web development, cloud-native services, CI/CD and Kubernetes, with a track record of shipping recommendation and catalog systems at scale. Wael has led engineering teams across startups and large platforms, turning business needs into robust architectures and developer-friendly processes. Based in Amsterdam, he pairs experimentation with pragmatic trade-offs, prioritizing speed, quality and sustainability. An early career foundation in enterprise Java, PHP/Laravel and teaching informs his practical, mentorship-driven leadership style.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at iugaza
Dutch, Arabic, English, Turkish
Stackoverflow
183reputation
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4questions
Github Skills (60)
paypal10
payment-integration10
payment-gateway10
payment10
payfort10
frappe-framework10
composer10
cli10
webhooks9
filemaker9
socket-io9
security9
python9
laravel9
full-stack9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wshurafa/laravel-payfort
May 2017 - Jun 2022
Laravel Payfort provides a simple and rich way to perform and handle operations for Payfort online payment gateway
Contributions:2 releases, 13 commits, 13 PRs in 5 years 1 month
laravel-5-packagepayfortonline-paymentphppayment-gateway
mocashapp/laravel-app
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:39 PRs, 24 pushes, 57 branches in 4 days
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