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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia / GMT+3

ABDELHADYSAAD*

Products die in translation between marketing and engineering. I speak both languages — leading digital products from strategy to store release to profitable growth. 10+ years.

iOS & Android Apps React Native Full-Stack Web SEO & Growth WordPress / WooCommerce AI-Accelerated Riyadh · KSA

01 / About

Most people build the productor run the marketing.I do both.

I'm Abdelhady Saad — a digital product lead and mobile app developer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. For over a decade I've owned products across the full life-cycle: strategy and scoping, architecture and code, store releases, and then the SEO, analytics and campaigns that turn them into revenue.

Today I manage the digital presence of six automotive brands in the Kingdom — Ford, Lincoln, QuickLane, Indian Motorcycle and Polaris — and I engineered Tafrud, a complete e-learning platform with native apps on both stores, end to end.

That dual fluency is the job: I'm the person you put between your marketing and engineering teams to make them ship — or the one you hand a budget and a goal, and get back a product. I work in Arabic and English, and I build with AI in the loop, which means agency-level output at startup speed.

Years across product, code & growth
10+
Live digital properties under management
9+
Stores — App Store & Google Play
2
Uptime across all properties
100%

02 / Services

What I ship

03 / Selected work

Built to earn

2025 —

Flagship

Tafrud

E-learning platform · iOS + Android + Web

A complete e-learning business for the Saudi market, engineered end-to-end: a React Native app on the App Store and Google Play, powered by a WordPress / LearnPress / WooCommerce backend with a custom plugin suite.

Role — End-to-end owner — product, code, stores, growth

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  • In-app purchases (Apple & Google) + Tamara and bank-transfer checkout
  • Magic-link SSO between app and web, single-device session security
  • Group chat, push notifications, coupons, self-hosted course video
  • Custom WordPress plugins: payments, sessions, announcements, analytics
  • React Native
  • TypeScript
  • WordPress
  • WooCommerce
  • PHP
  • Firebase
  • MySQL

2025 —

Al Jazirah Vehicles

Digital lead engine · 6 automotive brands

Running the full digital presence for Ford, Lincoln, QuickLane, Indian Motorcycle and Polaris in Saudi Arabia — vehicle-launch campaigns, landing pages, lead-capture systems and the analytics that prove what converts.

Role — Digital Marketing Specialist & Webmaster

  • SEMrush-driven market & competitor strategy for the KSA market
  • GA4 + Looker Studio reporting across every brand property
  • Launch landing pages with tracked, attributed lead capture
  • 100% uptime across all six digital properties
  • WordPress
  • PHP
  • SEMrush
  • GA4
  • Looker Studio
  • Meta/Google Ads

Live

Saudi Tech

Arabic tech-news portal · sauditech.net

An Arabic-language technology news platform covering AI, fintech, gaming, smart vehicles and device reviews from a Saudi perspective — publishing multiple articles daily. I built and run the platform end to end: full RTL magazine layout with dark mode, ad monetization and an editorial workflow that scales.

Role — Platform build & management

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  • 8+ tech sections: AI, fintech, gaming, cars, reviews, business & startups
  • Deep archive — the tech-news section alone runs to 274 pages
  • Full RTL Arabic layout with dark mode, lazy loading and newsletter
  • AdSense monetization, contact & team-recruitment forms with CV upload
  • WordPress
  • SmartMag
  • Elementor
  • AdSense
  • PHP
  • Hostinger

2019 —

Dora News

Licensed Saudi electronic newspaper · dora.sa

A Saudi online newspaper — founded 2019 and licensed by the Ministry of Culture and Media — publishing local, regional and international news around the clock with sports, economy and opinion sections. I run the platform behind a daily, high-volume editorial operation.

Role — Platform build & management

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  • Round-the-clock publishing: breaking-news homepage, tickers and archives
  • Full news taxonomy incl. a dedicated Eastern Region section + opinion columns
  • Performance stack: LiteSpeed caching + Cloudflare CDN for news-traffic spikes
  • GA4 + Tag Manager measurement, RSS and structured data for Google News surfaces
  • WordPress
  • Jannah
  • LiteSpeed
  • Cloudflare
  • GA4
  • Hostinger

2018 — 2025

E-Commerce Builds

Stores, gateways & MVPs

Seven years of production e-commerce: PSD-to-store builds, payment-gateway and API integrations, WooCommerce and Shopify customization, and MVP prototyping for startups at Marn, OPIOSHOP, SUTU3 and ALASSLY.

Role — Full-Stack Developer

  • Payment gateway & shipping API integrations
  • MVP prototyping with cross-functional startup teams
  • Database & server administration (MySQL, Apache)
  • Store setup, theming and conversion optimization
  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • WooCommerce
  • Shopify
  • JavaScript
  • MySQL

04 / Experience

The road so far

  1. 2025 —

    Al Jazirah Vehicles Agencies

    Digital Marketing Specialist & Webmaster

    Ford · Lincoln · QuickLane · Indian Motorcycle · Polaris (KSA)

  2. 2023 — 2025

    Marn

    Web Developer

    MVP prototyping · full-stack PHP/JS · MySQL & Apache

  3. 2021 — 2022

    OPIOSHOP

    Web Developer

    Data-driven web apps · e-commerce modules

  4. 2020 — 2021

    SUTU3 Development

    Full-Stack Developer

    Secure, user-friendly platforms · debugging & hardening

  5. 2018 — 2020

    ALASSLY

    Web Developer

    PSD-to-store builds · payment gateways · APIs

05 / The stack

Technologies I build with

React Native React Next.js TypeScript Node.js PHP Laravel WordPress WooCommerce Shopify MySQL Firebase

Tools I grow with

SEO SEMrush GA4 Looker Studio Google Ads Meta Ads CRO Arabic SEO Core Web Vitals Claude AI AI Content Automation

06 / From the blog

Field notes

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07 / FAQ

Good questions

How much does it cost to build a mobile app in Saudi Arabia?

It depends on scope, but working with me costs a fraction of an agency: I cover the full cycle — design, code, store release and growth — accelerated by AI tooling. A typical MVP ships in weeks, not months. Message me on WhatsApp with your idea and you'll get a clear, fixed quote after one short call.

Do you build both iOS and Android apps?

Yes — one React Native codebase that ships to both the App Store and Google Play. I handle the full release process on both stores myself, including in-app purchases, push notifications and review submissions. Tafrud, my e-learning platform, is live on both stores today.

React Native or Flutter — which do you use?

React Native. It shares the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem with the web, so your app and website can share logic, developers and momentum — which makes the whole product cheaper to build and maintain. For almost every business app, the result is indistinguishable from native.

Can you also handle SEO and marketing, not just development?

That's exactly what makes me different. I run SEO, Google Analytics (GA4), Looker Studio reporting and paid campaigns for six automotive brands in Saudi Arabia. I don't hand you a website and leave — I can run the strategy that fills it with qualified leads.

Do you take product management roles, or only hands-on development?

Both. I'm at my best owning a digital product across the whole cycle — strategy, scoping, budgets, vendor and team leadership, then the analytics that steer it. Because I've personally done every seat (design briefs, code, store releases, campaigns), teams can't lose me in translation and agencies can't oversell me. Hands-on development stays on the table when it's the fastest path.

Do you work in Arabic?

Arabic is my native language and English is fluent. I build Arabic/RTL interfaces properly and do Arabic SEO for the Saudi and Gulf markets — both the technical side and the content side.

Do you work remotely or on-site?

I'm based in Riyadh with a transferable Iqama, available on-site or hybrid across Saudi Arabia — and I work remotely with clients worldwide. Most projects run perfectly over WhatsApp, email and short calls.

08 / Contact

Let'stalk.

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