Ali Amer

About

What I do

Experience

Smart-Home Sales & Solutions Specialist

Apr 2022 - Present

Asalet Al-Kawaz (Smart Home Retail & Wholesale)· Mansour, Baghdad, IQ

• ▹Advised customers and sold smart-home products and solutions at the Babylon branch
• ▹Designed and installed smart-home systems for customers
• ▹Served as lead smart-home technical expert, primary contact resolving complex issues for customers and staff
• ▹Handled around 450 customer and merchant conversations a month across support and branch sales channels, troubleshooting setup and device issues remotely
• ▹Set up networking, CCTV, IP phones, POS and access control for a branch and warehouse, including point-to-point wireless links between buildings and VLANs
• ▹Repaired around 1,000 devices at component level, most fixed on the first attempt without replacing the unit
• ▹Trained new staff on the job as an internally certified On-the-Job Training Instructor
• ▹Built the company's e-commerce storefront and repair-tracking system alongside the role

Certificates

Education

Selected work

Smart home & lighting

Home Assistant automation and lighting design tools.

Showroom Automation: Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5

2026

ualiamer.com/showroom-demo ↗

• ▹Automated a retail smart-home showroom: 11 Tuya light circuits, WLED strips, a curtain motor, a "window" light that follows the real sun, and AI person sensors that trigger a zone greeting
• ▹Fixed scenes that thrashed when pressed: measured device lag up to 4.4 s, then generated scripts that send one command per device every 350 ms, with a verify pass that resends only what didn't land
• ▹Built a three.js 3D twin with live Home Assistant state (tap a light to toggle it) and cut its cold load from 4.3 s to 1.3 s; the public demo runs it on a sample apartment

Home AssistantRaspberry Pi 5Tuya (LocalTuya)WLEDthree.jsPython

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Hexlight: Hexagonal LED Lighting Planner

2026

hex.meiox.com ↗

• ▹Planner for hexagonal LED bar lighting: draw a layout on a grid and get a live bill of materials, with bars counted by length, connectors detected from the joint angles (I, L, V, Y, T, X), and power inputs sized at 420 W each
• ▹Estimates floor-level lux with the lumen method and checks it against EN 12464-1 targets for the room's use
• ▹Arabic, right-to-left interface with an Arabic PDF export of the layout drawing; runs entirely in the browser

ReactTypeScriptViteSVGjsPDF

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Built for the business

Software I built for the company I work for, all in real use.

Katalog: E-Commerce Catalog & Storefront Platform

Nov 2025 - Present

store.asaletalkawaz.iq ↗

• ▹Architected a 5-level price-resolution engine (per-customer → group → tier → retail) with request-time sale overrides
• ▹Built an automated PDF catalog pipeline on headless Chromium with an async worker queue that nightly pre-generates catalog variants, delivered through a Telegram Mini App
• ▹Integrated LLM APIs for auto-generated product summaries and Arabic→Kurdish (Sorani) translation
• ▹Engineered the full web storefront with cart, checkout, OAuth auth, loyalty points, Firebase push, and abandoned-cart triggers, with automated WhatsApp Business API order confirmations

PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLReactCeleryDocker

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Fixr: Multi-Branch Device Repair Tracking Platform

Oct 2025 - Present

fix.nixflow.xyz ↗

• ▹Built a multi-branch repair lifecycle engine (reception → repair → pickup) with 6-tier role-based access, atomic invoicing, and weighted-average-cost inventory
• ▹Engineered an offline-first PWA with service-worker caching and an IndexedDB queue, enabling QR scanning and form submission with zero connectivity, auto-syncing on reconnect
• ▹Automated WhatsApp status notifications via n8n with non-guessable UUID tracking tokens, plus AES-256-GCM encrypted backups and Arabic RTL PDF invoices

Node.jsExpressPostgreSQLRedisn8nDockerWhatsApp API

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Asland: Bilingual Brand Landing Page

2026

asaletalkawaz.iq ↗

• ▹Rebuilt a 1959 Iraqi trading company's site from a Wayback Machine backup into a modern, statically-exported Next.js app
• ▹Full bilingual EN/AR with RTL support, scroll-snap slide layout, and IntersectionObserver reveal animations
• ▹Interactive multi-branch location map via Leaflet/OpenStreetMap; deployed on Vercel

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSLeafletVercel

Side projects

Personal projects, each with a live demo or public code.

Ops Panel: Phone-First Shipping Operations App

2026

ops-panel-demo.pages.dev ↗

• ▹Built an Arabic-first, right-to-left panel that takes an order from review to packing to carrier handoff, with a stage-grouped order board and a one-handed tap-to-pack flow
• ▹Money tracking with operator wallets, driver ledgers, and a settlement screen that reconciles a carrier payout batch against invoices, order by order
• ▹Per-order chat threads, team rooms, and DMs with mentions and push notifications; a fixture-backed demo mode runs the whole panel with no backend

SvelteKitSvelte 5TypeScriptTailwind CSSshadcn-svelteSocket.IO

cvkit: CV Generator (CLI + Cross-Platform Desktop App)

2026

github.com/uAliAmer/cvkit ↗

• ▹Generates a CV from one JSON source as PDF, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text, with parallel role-specific variant builds
• ▹Cross-platform desktop editor (Linux/macOS/Windows) and a CLI sharing one core; native PDF export with no LaTeX dependency
• ▹Automated multi-OS release pipeline (AppImage, .exe, .app) with CI and golden-output tests

GoFyneCobraGitHub Actions

learn-sql: Interactive SQL Learning App

2026

learn-sql-101.pages.dev ↗

• ▹Interactive SQL lessons backed by a real Postgres database running entirely in the browser via PGlite (WASM), with no backend
• ▹React + Vite single-page app deployed on Cloudflare Pages

ReactVitePGlite (Postgres/WASM)Cloudflare Pages

Snip: Self-Hosted URL Shortener

github.com/uAliAmer/Svelte-URL-Shortener ↗

• ▹URL shortener with click analytics, QR codes, tags, link expiry/limits, API keys, and admin panel; one-command TLS via Caddy

SvelteKitPrismaPostgreSQLRedis

Hashban: Backendless Kanban Board

hashban.meiox.com ↗

• ▹Single-page Kanban board whose entire state lives in the URL hash, with no backend; sharing the link shares the board

TypeScript

Skills

Smart home

Home Assistant· Zigbee· Tuya / LocalTuya· WLED· Reolink· Raspberry Pi· Smart lighting· Scenes & automations· System design & installation

IT, networks & hardware

MikroTik· Ubiquiti· TP-Link· VLANs· Point-to-point wireless links· TCP/IP· DHCP· DNS· Hikvision CCTV & NVRs· Grandstream & Fanvil VoIP· POS terminals· Anviz access control· Windows 10/11· AlmaLinux / RHEL· Tailscale· ZeroTier· Electronics & integrated-circuit repair

Software

Python· FastAPI· JavaScript· TypeScript· Node.js· Express· React· SvelteKit· Go· three.js· Tailwind CSS· Vite· PostgreSQL· Redis· Prisma· Celery· Docker· REST APIs

Tools

Git· GitHub Actions· Linux (6+ yrs)· Docker Compose· Nginx· Caddy· Cloudflare R2· Playwright· n8n· LLM APIs· Telegram Mini App· WhatsApp Business API

Customer & business

Technical sales· Customer support· Customer relations· Staff training· Problem-solving

Languages

Arabic (native)· English (fluent)