Available for select freelance projects

Yazan Alrefaai

I turn ideas into systems businesses actually run on.

Currently building payment infrastructure for a US fintech — remotely, from Damascus.

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Languages (AR/EN/DE)

What I do

Three ways to work with me

Backend & API Development

Robust REST APIs and backend systems that power your product — built for reliability, security, and scale.

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Complete Business System

A full system for your business — POS, inventory, restaurant, booking, or custom workflows — from first call to delivery and training.

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Business Website

A fast, professional website that presents your business properly — SEO-ready and easy to update.

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Selected work

Featured projects

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Payments & POS

Feb — Mar 2026Client work

Offline Inventory & POS System

Complete offline point-of-sale and inventory system for a retail hardware store — Arabic RTL interface, dual-currency, zero internet dependency, zero recurring costs.

Runs fully offline with no recurring platform cost

LaravelSQLiteBladeTailwindCSS

Payments & POS

Mar 2026 — PresentClient work

Karim Pay — Bilingual E-Wallet

A consumer e-wallet built on the SoftRemit platform, live at karim-pay.com — and bilingual before it is anything else.

Live, and bilingual from the first screen

Flutter.NETABP FrameworkSQL Server

SRFlutter

Payments & POS

Mar 2026 — PresentIn progress

Soft Remit — E-Wallet & Cross-Border Payments

E-wallet and cross-border payment platform for Syria and the MENA region, handling real money transfers with bank-grade reliability.

Payment platform in active development

Flutter.NETABP FrameworkSQL Server

Payments & POS

Jan — Jun 2025Client work

Baflay Burger — Restaurant Management System

Full restaurant ecosystem in Arabic and English: custom burger builder with real-time pricing, smart inventory, and complete order lifecycle management.

Public ordering experience with an operational admin workflow

LaravelMySQLREST APIs

Business Systems

Apr — Jun 2025Client work

Waste Management Platform

Digital platform connecting private companies with government regulators for waste inspection and removal — replacing paper processes with multi-role digital workflows.

Replaced paper submissions with tracked digital workflows

ABP Framework.NETSQL ServerREST APIs

AI & Data

Jan — May 2025Client work

Soutify — Social Media Listening Platform

Near-real-time brand monitoring across Twitter and global news, with Arabic and English AI sentiment analysis and flexible Boolean search.

Arabic + English monitoring and sentiment analysis

DjangoDRFPostgreSQLAI Sentiment Analysis

AI & Data

May 2026Research

InjectionGuard — Multilingual Prompt Injection Defence

A 3-layer English/Arabic guardrail for indirect prompt injection. In an initial 20-payload prototype benchmark, it detected 19 payloads with no false positives.

19/20 payloads detected in an initial prototype benchmark

PythonStreamlitOllamaLLM Security

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Under the hood

What I build with

Backend

Python
Django & DRF
FastAPI
Laravel (PHP)
C# / .NET

Databases

PostgreSQL
MySQL
SQL Server
SQLite
Redis

Frontend & Mobile

Blazor
Vue.js
React basics
TailwindCSS
Flutter

Practices

SDLC
Agile / Scrum
Git
API Design
System Design

yazan@dev — zsh

How we work together

A simple, transparent process

Discovery

A free call to understand your business, the problem, and what success looks like. Message me on WhatsApp and we will find a time.

Proposal

A clear written proposal: scope, timeline, milestones, and a fixed price. No surprises.

Build in sprints

Weekly progress updates with working demos — you see the system grow and can adjust early.

Delivery & training

Deployment, documentation, and hands-on training for your team — plus support after launch.

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Career

Experience

Software Engineer

SoftRemit · Dearborn, MI, USA · Remote

March 2026 — Present

Building SoftRemit — a white-label remittance platform and the Karim Pay e-wallet on top of it, with Flutter for mobile and .NET on the ABP Framework behind it.

Software Engineer

Freelance · Hybrid

March 2024 — Present

Building software for real businesses: POS systems, restaurant platforms, marketplaces, dashboards, and business websites — from first call to delivery and training.

Software Engineer & Backend Developer

Soutify · Riyadh, KSA · Remote

November 2024 — June 2025

Led backend development across three products: a social media listening platform with AI sentiment analysis, an e-ticketing system, and a government waste management platform. Django, FastAPI, ABP Framework.

Yazan is an exceptional Django developer with a knack for tackling complex projects. His strong Python skills and ability to deliver on time make him a highly valuable asset. I wholeheartedly recommend him.

Tawfik Ghamian

Founder & CEO @ AI Vaultex

Proof

Check it yourself

11 verified certifications

IBM, Copenhagen Business School and Anthropic — every one with a verification link.

Source code on GitHub

Two of the case studies ship their full repository.

LinkedIn profile

Roles, dates and a recommendation, on the record.

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