Mina Sameh — Software Engineer (React Native, TypeScript, AI)

Mina Sameh

Career

Five-plus years building production software across mobile, web, and backend.

Experience

Software EngineerMedGulf

Jan 2025 — Present

Lead engineer on the consumer-facing insurance app: policy lookup, claims submission, document uploads, and bilingual (Arabic/English) UI. Migrated the runtime to Hermes and the storage layer to MMKV to take cold start from ~2.4s to under 1s on mid-range Android. Owned the EAS pipeline end-to-end so we ship via CodePush within hours of a hotfix landing.

  • Insurance app shipped to 100K+ users on iOS & Android
  • 4.1★ Google Play, 3.9★ App Store
  • Hermes engine, JSI/TurboModules, offline-first with MMKV
  • EAS CI/CD pipelines, CodePush OTA updates

Software EngineerAgillo

Jul 2022 — Jan 2025

Built the WlthyWise personal finance app from blank repo to App Store and Play Store, plus the marketing site that lands a 95+ Lighthouse score. Set up the Jenkins → GitHub Actions migration so the team stopped paying for a CI box and shaved the average build to under nine minutes. Wrote and reviewed enough React Native that the architecture survives turnover.

  • Built WlthyWise finance app from greenfield to 1K+ downloads
  • EAS build pipelines, 95+ Lighthouse score
  • Jenkins & GitHub Actions CI/CD
  • React Native + Expo architecture

Software EngineerForkNKnife

Feb 2021 — Apr 2022

Backend and integration work on a restaurant POS used across dozens of locations: 10,000+ monthly transactions, live order tracking via WebSockets, and a WhatsApp automation flow driven by Dialogflow NLP that let customers place orders by texting. Built the analytics dashboard that owners actually checked daily.

  • Enterprise POS handling 10K+ monthly transactions
  • WhatsApp automation with Dialogflow NLP
  • Real-time analytics dashboard
  • WebSocket-based live order tracking

Full Stack DeveloperGo Free

Sep 2020 — Feb 2021

Shipped the MVP of a health-tech product end-to-end: React frontend, Node.js services, RESTful API, HIPAA-compliant data handling. First commercial role where I owned the full stack and learned the cost of every shortcut.

  • Health tech MVP with zero critical bugs
  • Full stack React + Node.js
  • RESTful API design
  • HIPAA-compliant data handling

Full Stack DeveloperCreative Twinkles

Feb 2019 — May 2020

Early agency role: full-stack work for SMB clients building marketing sites and client-facing dashboards. Owned the GSAP-driven animation work and performance optimization that lifted lead generation ~30% across the agency's client portfolio while it was clearing $50K+ in recurring revenue. Where I learned to ship to a deadline.

  • Digital agency generating $50K+ recurring revenue
  • 30% increase in lead generation
  • GSAP animations, performance optimization
  • Client-facing dashboards

Education

Bachelor of Computer ScienceFaculty of Computers & Information (2018 — 2022)

Certifications

  • AWS Cloud PractitionerAmazon Web Services
  • React Native SpecialistMeta
  • TypeScript AdvancedMicrosoft

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