FARES' CV
FARES GDOURA
Full Stack Developer
Profile summary
Trilingual Full Stack Developer with 6 years of GCC experience specializing in Laravel, Vue.js, and system architecture. Delivered 30+ projects and built production applications, platform migrations, and internal tooling for clients across multiple regions. Committed to maintaining high standards of software quality and scalable technical execution.
Career highlights
Independent Contracting Delivery: Delivered 30 projects over six years while billing 5,000 hours and generating over $100,000 in revenue as an independent contractor on Upwork.
Platform Migration and Tooling: Migrated a legacy platform to a modern Laravel and Nuxt stack and built an internal ad compliance tool to help staff identify rejected advertisements.
Frontend Component Library: Contributed to a production payment product at a payment provider, carrying out a full migration from Vue 2 to Vue 3 and building an open-source component library.
Laravel Developer Certification: Earned the Senior Laravel Developer credential to validate professional software engineering expertise.
Key skills
Professional experience
Founded and ran a web development agency focused on delivering consulting services and a proprietary SaaS product, directing all project lifecycles from initial requirements gathering through to final deployment.
- Delivered platform migrations for agency clients including Lott Agency.
- Built internal tooling to support agency operations and client deliverables.
- Integrated Meta Ads functionality for Gradyn LLC platform requirements.
Directed development operations for client deliverables, managing technical execution across multiple client projects while translating interface designs into functional code bases.
- Migrated a legacy platform to a modern Laravel and Nuxt stack by implementing new interface specifications directly from Figma designs.
- Built a new feature for the agency Meta Ads launcher tool, extending campaign creation capabilities.
Guided full stack development initiatives within the UAE, directing engineering workflows and supporting technical operations to maintain infrastructure reliability and operational readiness.
- Built an internal ad compliance tool enabling staff to quickly identify rejected advertisements and take corrective action.
- Maintained good standing across Business Managers and ad accounts by reducing time to detect and resolve rejections.
Directed development operations for client projects in Dubai, managing technical execution and system architecture.
- Built Laravel applications under fixed-scope project agreements for agency clients in 2024.
- Delivered 10 to 12 web features per milestone while maintaining software specifications.
- Delivered 30 projects over a six-year period, billing 5,000 hours and generating over $100,000 in revenue as an independent contractor.
- Built custom web applications, CRMs, WordPress, and Magento environments, adapting quickly to each client's existing systems.
- Executed a full platform migration from Vue 2 to Vue 3.
- Built Orchid UI, an open-source component library used across the product.
Education
Computer Science | Bachelor's, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications
Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications
Certifications
Languages
English · Fluent
French · Fluent
Arabic · Native