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Hi, I'mBilend M. Abdullah

I'm a Senior Software & Applied AI Engineer

Building high-performance web applications and applied AI systems in TypeScript, React, Vue, and Python. Recently architected the front-end for Iraq's UNESCO-backed national education platform serving 2M+ students across 21,000+ schools.

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About Me

I'm a software engineer based in Galway, Ireland, with 7+ years of experience building web applications and applied AI systems. Over the years, my work has taken me from co-developing one of Iraq's first online flight booking platforms to building municipal funding tools in Germany and international biopharma software.

After completing my MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Surrey as a Chevening Scholar, I focused on bringing AI and modern web architecture into production. Most recently, I led the front-end architecture for Iraq's UNESCO-backed national education system (EMIS) — rebuilding the platform from the ground up to run 6–7x faster for over 21,000 schools — and built internal LLM and speech-analytics tools at Asiacell.

Outside of work, I like building tools that fix everyday annoyances. Lately, that's meant building an AI-powered marketplace that turns messy Instagram vendor posts into searchable products, and writing a Chrome extension to fix a frustrating HR platform used by Irish institutions.

Galway, Ireland

Years Experience

30+

Projects Delivered

25+

Technologies

Countries Worked In

Frontend

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Vue

Pinia

Quasar

Tailwind CSS

Redux-Saga

Backend & AI

Python

FastAPI

PyTorch

Redis

MCP

ASP.NET Core

Java

Tools

Docker

Git

Sentry

Coolify

Cloudflare

Figma

Experience

What I've been up to

iMMAP Inc.

2025–2026

Senior Software Engineer

Owned the front-end architecture of Iraq’s national Education Management Information System (EMIS), delivered with UNESCO, end to end — page structure, role-based routing, state management (Pinia) and multilingual support (Vue-I18N) — serving every user tier from schools and teachers to a three-level hierarchy of education directorates.
Delivered a system 6–7x faster than the legacy platform, with data tables loading and filtering in milliseconds instead of seconds and near-instant page navigation.
Built a reusable component library that became the team’s shared UI layer, and drove its adoption across the team, improving consistency and accelerating delivery.
Built a spreadsheet-style grade-entry module with debounced auto-save, live save-status feedback and error recovery; shaped its backend API design and contributed code to the ASP.NET Core / Entity Framework backend.
Designed and built the API integration-testing framework from scratch, writing 100+ tests covering full HTTP-to-SQL Server round trips against a real containerised database.
Mentored a junior developer through regular one-on-ones, established team guidelines for verifiable AI-assisted coding, and represented front-end engineering in bi-weekly feature-scoping sessions with UNESCO and the Ministry of Education.

Vue 3QuasarPiniaVue-I18NC#ASP.NET CoreEntity FrameworkSQL ServerxUnitTestcontainers

Senior Software Engineer

Owned the front-end architecture of Iraq’s national Education Management Information System (EMIS), delivered with UNESCO, end to end — page structure, role-based routing, state management (Pinia) and multilingual support (Vue-I18N) — serving every user tier from schools and teachers to a three-level hierarchy of education directorates.
Delivered a system 6–7x faster than the legacy platform, with data tables loading and filtering in milliseconds instead of seconds and near-instant page navigation.
Built a reusable component library that became the team’s shared UI layer, and drove its adoption across the team, improving consistency and accelerating delivery.
Built a spreadsheet-style grade-entry module with debounced auto-save, live save-status feedback and error recovery; shaped its backend API design and contributed code to the ASP.NET Core / Entity Framework backend.
Designed and built the API integration-testing framework from scratch, writing 100+ tests covering full HTTP-to-SQL Server round trips against a real containerised database.
Mentored a junior developer through regular one-on-ones, established team guidelines for verifiable AI-assisted coding, and represented front-end engineering in bi-weekly feature-scoping sessions with UNESCO and the Ministry of Education.

Vue 3QuasarPiniaVue-I18NC#ASP.NET CoreEntity FrameworkSQL ServerxUnitTestcontainers

Selected Work

Some Projects

ML / AI

CNN Scene Recognition

ResNet-based scene classifier trained in PyTorch, with TensorBoard-tracked experiments across training runs.

ML / AI

CNN Knife Classification

Benchmarked multiple CNN architectures on a knife-classification task to compare accuracy against model complexity.

ML / AI

PhysioNet Challenge 2022

Heart-murmur detection from phonocardiogram recordings for the PhysioNet 2022 challenge — feature engineering plus model ensembling.

ML / AI

Vehicle Re-ID System

Vehicle re-identification on the VeRi dataset, combining Transformer attention with CNN feature extraction.

ML / AIWeb

Mawlawy

AI-powered product discovery platform that turns Instagram vendor posts into a searchable marketplace — Next.js front-end, FastAPI modular monolith, pgvector semantic search, and a Gemma-based ingestion pipeline with confidence-based approval flows.

Web

CoreHR Fixer

Chrome extension that fixes usability flaws in CoreHR, the HR platform used by Irish institutions — quality-of-life fixes layered directly onto the platform’s UI.

WebUX/UI Case Study

Samleys

Cosmetics storefront designed and built end-to-end — Next.js frontend, self-hosted on Hetzner with Coolify and Cloudflare, independent of any e-commerce platform.

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WebUX/UI Case Study

Lantana

Company site for an agriculture & landscaping business — Payload CMS content model so the team publishes without a developer, on a Next.js frontend.

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UX/UI Case Study

We Care

UX/UI design for a caregiver-hiring app — ~40 screens per language across English, Kurdish, and Arabic (RTL), from caregiver discovery to a live-priced booking flow.

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Web

Invoice App

Invoice management app with realtime data — create, track and filter invoices without a reload, built on Vue and Firebase.

UX/UI Case Study

To U Delivery

UX/UI for a delivery ecosystem — the admin dashboard, business app, and driver app designed as one system: ops tables and distance pricing on one side, a map-first ordering flow on the other.

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