Hey, I'm Omar!
Welcome to my corner of the internet!
I'm a systems integration engineer in Abu Dhabi. By day I deploy and test defense systems in the field. On the side I build AI systems, apps and my own infrastructure, and I write here about what I learn along the way.
Here's what sets me apart and makes me unique
I like sharing my experiments && knowledge with others
Barjeel — Checking UAE Property Prices Against What Actually Sold
I was looking at property to invest in and couldn't tell a good asking price from a hopeful one. So I built a tool that pulls listings, compares them with government-recorded sales, and scores every deal from 0 to 100. Here's how it works and what it found.
Home Lab '22 — A Small Server That Holds the Whole Family's Photos
In 2022 I built a home server for about AED 4,300: three 6 TB drives in RAID 5, Proxmox for isolation, and the services my family actually uses. Here's the hardware, the reasoning, and what I'd tell myself before starting.
One Chat to Run It All — How My AI Assistant Is Put Together
I wanted one interface for everything — email, memory, research, reminders, my job search — and that interface had to be a chat. Here's the architecture behind it, the decisions that held up, and the ones I had to undo.
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