FullstackDeveloper& Founder
Seif Zakaria — Cairo, Egypt
About
“I build products that ship, solve real problems, and make users happy.”
Hey! I'm Seif Zakaria. I'm a full-stack developer based in Cairo, Egypt who ships fast and obsesses over the details. I lead the AI & Resonance committee at Microsoft Student Partners ASU, mentor developers, and build with Next.js daily. My background in leading HR teams gave me something most engineers lack: the ability to truly understand what users need before writing a single line of code. I'm applying that to build Rafiqi, a mental health platform that's helped real users. Got a challenging project? Let's talk.
20+
Projects Shipped
3×
NASA Space Apps
Top 5
GDG Finalist
Services
Comprehensive solutions to help you build and grow your digital presence.
My Journey
A chronological journey through my education, startup ventures, internships, and hackathon-driven milestones.
Sep 2022
Sep 2022
Attended Ain Shams University
Went beyond just coding; from shipping real projects to running events, mentoring, and experimenting with everything from software dev to data analysis and machine learning. All while stirring things up in the Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) and formerly the Open Source Community (OSC).
Sep 2023 – Present
Sep 2023 – Present
Founded Masons
Flagship Project:
Rafiqi combines culturally informed design with AI to provide mental health support that’s accessible and relevant to the people it serves.
Competitive Builds:
Oct 2023 — NASA Space Apps Challenge
Oct 2024 — NASA Space Apps Challenge
Mar 2025 — GDG Cairo AI Finance Hackathon (Top 7 Finalist out of 88 teams)
Oct 2025 — NASA Space Apps Challenge
Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Fintech Intern @ CIB Egypt
Completed a 2-week internship at CIB, one of Egypt's top-tier banks.
Gained solid experience in banking operations, financial systems, and risk strategy, while refining professional communication and critical thinking in a corporate setting.
Nov 2024 – May 2025
Nov 2024 – May 2025
Full Stack Intern @ DEPI
Spent 6 months with the Digital Egypt Pioneers Initiative as a Full Stack Web Developer, building and refining React web applications with the MERN stack.
Strengthened my core skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Git/GitHub, while picking up TypeScript, TailwindCSS, and Bootstrap. Gained practical exposure to backend development with Node.js and Express, plus a solid intro to containerization using Docker.
Beyond coding, learned UI/UX design principles, code quality practices, documentation workflows, and unit testing; all the stuff that turns code into a maintainable product.
Wrapped up with a capstone project: Convo, a full-stack real-time chat application built from scratch using React and Node.js. It pulled together everything I’d learned into a production-grade, working product, a hands-on challenge that shaped the way I now approach development.
Projects
Selected works highlighting proficiency in full-stack development and system design.
Umbra
Enabled researchers to visualize 600+ space biology experiments.
Umbra
Built for the 2025 NASA Space Apps Challenge, Umbra empowers researchers, mission planners, and citizen scientists to explore, filter, and visualize NASA’s vast library of space biology experiments. Designed to fuel the next era of human space exploration.
Masons Landing Page
Increased inquiry rate by 40% through improved UX.
Orbit
Visualized the entire solar system with some NEOs.
GitHub Contributions
Logs
Personal notes and deep dives from my journey—building apps, leading teams, and exploring the craft of modern web development.
Building world's first ITE "Integrated Thinking Environment"
A proposal for a local-first Markdown editor that uses real-time Sentiment Analysis to dynamically adjust its AI assistant's persona, featuring a multi-agent debate system ('The Council') and personalized memory recall.
Rafiqi: Our Journey Building Egypt's Mental Health Companion
How we built Rafiqi, an AI-powered mental health companion designed for Egyptians. From tackling cultural stigma to building tech that speaks Egyptian Arabic, here's the story of creating a platform rooted in accessibility, cultural respect, and real impact.
Rebuilding MSP for a High-Velocity Future
The story of how I led the complete structural and cultural rebuild of the MSP chapter, installing professional engineering standards (Unix/GitHub mandate) to foster technical excellence, culminating in the launch of the high-velocity Audio AI committee, Resonance.
Let's Talk
I'm always interested in hearing about new projects. My local time is in Cairo, Egypt.