I didn't come through the front door.

After high school I enrolled in Telecommunication Engineering. Within a year I knew the classroom wasn't my path, so I left. I tried to study in Germany and learned the language; the visa was refused, more than once. I tried Turkey; the costs made it impossible.

In between, I worked as a franchise salesman. I got promoted quickly and was recognized as a high performer. It paid the bills, and it taught me how to talk to people and how businesses actually run. But it wasn't the work I wanted.

During the hardest stretch I volunteered with UNICEF, and through that I found RBK, an immersive software engineering program partnered with Hack Reactor in San Francisco. I joined with zero programming background. It was much harder than I thought. I almost quit twice and was convinced I'd be dropped. I wasn't. I came out a working engineer.

“I was not handed a clear path into software engineering. I had to build one. Every rejection, failure, and difficult moment became part of the reason I kept going, kept learning, and eventually turned software into my career.”

The lesson that stuck: the obstacle was never ability. It was confidence. Once that flipped, everything else followed.

From there: my first full-stack role at SIMS Creation. Then Eon Dental, where I learned how software moves a physical business and led the plant automation project that took daily output from about 2,000 to 10,000 aligners. Along the way I founded Screem Network, a digital screen-advertising network across Jordan, built every piece of its technology myself, grew it to 350+ clients and 300+ screens, and exited by selling my shares. Today I do senior platform engineering at Tarjama and build production AI automation systems for companies.

As a former colleague once put it: “He's a fighter.”