May–Jul 2026
Consultant · AY Automate
- Led web and technical SEO/GEO. Took the site’s Ahrefs health score from 14 to 100.
- Built the n8n automations behind their content pipeline and scheduled posting.
Writer, independent AI researcher, software engineer & music producer
Open to remote
Muhamad J. Akoum
Hard problems are the fun part.
I work directly with founders and build end to end, from idea to production, with real innovation and polish.
Lebanese product engineer in Beirut, available worldwide. Twelve years shipping real software, from native iOS for millions to end-to-end-encrypted tools and AI products. I work where founders, product teams, and users meet, and stay accountable through production.
Built with, across twelve years
Everything you’re seeing, hearing, and reading right now is my taste. The track, the words, even this line breaking the fourth wall to say so. In the age of AI, taste is the whole edge.
01
Work
Things I’ve built and shipped, start to finish. Most of it is open source, so you can read the code, check it, and build it yourself.
liminals
liveA paid web app that rebuilds your own photos as eerie, half-remembered rooms, full-resolution and VHS-graded.
AIWebdropwire
★ 24End-to-end-encrypted, peer-to-peer file transfer for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Send any file straight between devices, resumable, with no account and no server holding your data. Built on iroh.
kith
★ 16Serverless, end-to-end-encrypted sync for your own devices. Memory, tabs, and files, with no account to make and nothing to mine.
aifinetuner
★ 3A visual fine-tuning plugin for AI coding agents. Bespoke pages with live design controls instead of guessing at prompts.
nocturne
★ 2Design multi-agent coding workflows on a canvas and run them while you sleep. If a run hits the wall at 2am, it checkpoints and waits.
Research into LLM memory for million-token contexts. Agent memory and retrieval, worked out in the open.
02
Experience
I like to build the whole thing, from the security layer to the last pixel to the last note. Twelve years of it: seven leading native iOS for millions of users, the rest building my own products.
12+
years shipping
7+
years senior iOS
11
countries reached
2025–2026
Independent software engineer · Freelance · confidential clients
- Two products end to end: Supabase backends with Flutter apps across mobile, web, and desktop, from architecture through build and handoff.
- Shipped native iOS and Android apps to the App Store and Google Play.
2017–2025
Senior native iOS & Flutter developer · Majid Al Futtaim
- Rebuilt the core journeys of the MAF Carrefour app (login, loyalty, addresses) for millions of customers across eleven countries.
- Migrated UIKit to SwiftUI and cut each journey into its own reusable CocoaPods SDK module.
- Shipped an overhauled OTP auth flow that earned the company’s “Spark of the Month” award.
- Established MVVM, DataManager, and DI patterns across the modules, then profiled and cut load times.
2014–2017
Technical manager / engineer · Mojo Tribe
- Led a three-developer team shipping cross-platform mobile apps end to end, and owned the store releases.
- Built native iOS (Swift, Objective-C) and Titanium/Alloy apps, and wrote the custom native modules in Objective-C and Java.
03
Hire / deploy
Hiring for a remote FDE or Product Engineer role, or need senior delivery for a defined problem? Pick the closest fit. It reaches me directly.
Requesting: FDE / Product Engineer
04
Skills
Twelve years of shipping, and a lot of it is agentic now. I build with AI every day, but I engineer it: specs, verification, and guardrails around the agents, not vibes. More on that ↓
Expert Senior Working
AI & agents
- Claude CodeExpert
- OpenAI CodexExpert
- Cursor · AI IDEsExpert
- Agentic engineeringExpert
- Multi-agent orchestrationExpert
- Prompt & context engineeringExpert
Building on AI
- MCP serversExpert
- Claude skills & pluginsExpert
- LLM apps · RAG & memoryExpert
- Fine-tuning & evalsSenior
- AI product developmentExpert
- Model APIs (Claude, OpenAI)Expert
Native iOS
- SwiftExpert
- SwiftUIExpert
- UIKitExpert
- CocoaPods · SDK modulesExpert
- Objective-CSenior
- Core DataSenior
Cross-platform
- Flutter · iOS / Android / Web / DesktopExpert
- DartExpert
- TauriSenior
- App Store / Play releasesExpert
Systems & web
- RustSenior
- TypeScriptSenior
- Next.jsSenior
- End-to-end encryptionSenior
- Java · PHPWorking
Backend & growth
- SupabaseSenior
- FirebaseSenior
- Technical SEO / GEOSenior
- n8n automationSenior
- Feature flags (Growthbook)Senior
Education
- BSc, Information & Communications TechnologyAmerican University of Science and Technology · 2016
- BT3, Information & AccountingBe'r Hasan Institute · 2014
Languages
- English · professional
- Arabic · native
05
Writing
I write to think through what I’m building, mostly about AI: agentic engineering over vibe coding, how LLM memory should actually work, and what breaks when you let agents write real code.
Latest essay
New · Jul 30, 2026
What Comes After Intelligence? AGI’s Wall or Transition
Most conversations about artificial general intelligence end at the moment AGI arrives.
- #artificial-intelligence
- #technology
- #agi
- #future
More writing
Jun 15, 2026 · #technology
The Genie Problem: AI Is Powerful, But We Don’t Know What to Wish For
The next AI skill is not prompt engineering. It is wish engineering.
Read ↗Jun 14, 2026 · #artificial-intelligence
The Bug Was in the Official SDK
That sentence sounds arrogant until it saves you a week.
Read ↗Jun 10, 2026 · #machine-learning
Why I Put LLM Memory Back Inside the Context Window
Context Swarm Memory: read-only memory shards, hash-enforced honesty, a benchmark head-to-head pending review, and the negative results that make the numbers believable.
Read ↗Jun 5, 2026 · #future-of-work
We Already Tested Life After Work. We Just Called It Being Rich.
In my previous article, I argued for Universal Basic Abundance : a post-AGI society where machines handle necessity, and humans are finally free to return to purpose, curiosity,…
Read →06
Music
Best with headphones on
Ancient Prayers
I’ve made music as Ancient Prayers since I was fourteen. Nocturnal, ambient, electronic, and hard to pin to one lane on purpose. Every piece is built to make you feel something, not to fit a genre.
More than thirty releases. I even reworked the MBC4 main titles, the theme I grew up waiting to hear come on TV and dropping everything to go listen to. That is the whole reason I make any of this.
I produce all of it in Cubase. Now I want to write for film, TV, and games. If you are scoring something, let’s talk.
Produced inCubase
AmbientDowntempoElectronicExperimental
Latest release
press play · full tracksNew
Amphetamine
Ancient Prayers
Whole tracks stream right here, straight from Bandcamp. No sign-in, nothing to press but play.
Open on Bandcamp ↗More recent
Forbidden Eden
You Can Travel To The Past, But You’ll Find No One There
Stargazing In A Lonely Night (2024 Remaster)
Gates & Realms (2024 Remaster)
Most played
on Spotify · for reference07
YouTube
Best with headphones on
The videos live on YouTube: music videos and reworks, including my own take on the MBC4 main titles I grew up waiting to hear on TV. These three are the most watched.
Most watched
MBC4 Main Titles (Ancient Prayers Second Rework), 2024 Edit
3.2K views
New · The Night Session
Want to make music that feels like this?
The track playing right now is mine. I opened up my real Cubase projects and wrote a no-theory way to make cinematic ambient, built ADHD-friendly because I have ADHD too. Join early access and I’ll send you a high-quality Air Song MP3, free.
See the kit and hear Air Song →08
Contact
I am open to remote Forward-Deployed Engineer and Product Engineer roles, plus selective consulting with founders. If you need someone close to customers who can turn ambiguity into production software, tell me about the team and the problem.
Follow the work
New tools, releases, and writing. Choose what you want to hear about, nothing else.