# Mohamad Al Kayal

> Developer & business systems builder in Brisbane, Australia. Turns messy business problems into practical systems people actually use — enterprise insurance front-ends, ERP rollouts, e-commerce storefronts, and a solo-built SaaS. Open to new opportunities and collaborations.

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## Current role

- Front-End Developer at A&G Insurance Australia (Budget Direct), Brisbane — May 2023 to present.
- Builds Angular applications for car and home insurance quote & policy flows across Budget Direct and partner brands (ING, Virgin, Coles, Ozicare).
- Worked on Consultant Webscreens (internal quoting platform), the Coles Insurance partnership rollout, and the Home Insurance app rewrite. Large Agile environment, 80% test-coverage gate, NGRX/RxJS state, Jest.
- Uses AI tooling (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) daily for coding, refactoring, test generation, review, and documentation.

## Experience

- Invelops Engineering, Istanbul (Mar 2022 – Apr 2023) — Integration Engineer. Led end-to-end Odoo ERP rollout for a 50-person engineering company with no prior central system; built custom Odoo modules in Python; migrated 30 mailboxes from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 with zero data loss.
- MAA-ALTHAHAB Middle East, Istanbul/remote (Jul 2021 – Aug 2022) — Full-Stack Developer. Built and maintained 3–5 Shopify storefronts for luxury fragrance brands (Majouri, Maison Matine) across the Middle East and Europe; custom Liquid themes, localisation, conversion-focused e-commerce.
- Obaidli & Zarooni Lawyers, Abu Dhabi (Dec 2019 – May 2021) — IT Support Specialist. Hardware, software, networking, and office systems for a legal practice.

## Independent work

- AutoInspectPro (2026, sunset) — solo-built multi-tenant vehicle-inspection SaaS that ran in production: Next.js 15, NestJS 11, Prisma 6, Postgres with Row-Level Security, BullMQ + Puppeteer PDF pipeline, Fly.io with CI/CD, backups, and observability. Decommissioned in 2026 when it didn't find paying customers; codebase retained. Architecture write-up: https://moekayal.me/autoinspectpro-architecture
- Brizcars (late 2025 – present) — owner/operator of a used-car dealership in Windsor, Brisbane; built and runs the website, stock listings, enquiries, and the digital side of the business. https://brizcars.com.au
- Open source: ngrx-effects-cookbook, nestjs-rls-multitenant-starter, vin-decoder-au — https://github.com/mohamad-kayal

## Skills

- Front-end: Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), NGRX, RxJS, HTML5, SCSS, Next.js, React, Tailwind
- Back-end & CMS: NestJS, Node.js, REST APIs, Shopify/Liquid, Odoo ERP (Python), Prisma, PostgreSQL
- Quality & delivery: Jest (80%+ coverage), CI/CD, Git, Docker, Agile/Scrum
- AI-augmented development: Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, prompt-driven prototyping — daily practice, not a novelty
- Other: networking (CCNA certified), performance optimisation, responsive design

## Education

- B.Sc. Computer Science, Lebanese International University, Lebanon (2016–2019)
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), 2019

## Facts

- Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia (Australian Permanent Resident)
- Languages: Arabic (native), English (fluent)
- Availability: open to new opportunities and collaborations
- Contact: info@moekayal.me

## Links

- [Homepage](https://moekayal.me)
- [Résumé (HTML)](https://moekayal.me/resume)
- [Résumé (JSON Resume)](https://moekayal.me/resume.json)
- [Résumé (PDF)](https://moekayal.me/Mohamad-Al-Kayal-CV.pdf)
- [AutoInspectPro architecture](https://moekayal.me/autoinspectpro-architecture)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/mohamad-kayal)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/moekayal/)