# Haroon Abid Awan · Carbon Trail > Haroon Abid Awan, Senior Full Stack and AI Enabled Automation Engineer in Manama, Bahrain. GCC SaaS, EN/AR platforms, Laravel, NestJS, FastAPI, Benefit payments, and calm systems that ship. ## Identity - Name: Haroon Abid Awan - Role: Senior Full Stack & AI Enabled Automation Engineer - Location: Manama, Bahrain | Open to relocate - Email: haroon.abid.1999@gmail.com - Phone: +973 37327569 - Site: https://haroonabidawan.com ## Summary Most of what I ship runs quietly in production. Shipping software and web solutions at Bespoke Marketing. Five-plus years of enterprise backends, SaaS, and automation that still runs at 2 a.m. ## Services ### Consultancy Clear the scope before the first commit. Sometimes the expensive mistake is starting build before scope is clear. Consultancy covers system design, infrastructure choices, microservice boundaries, delivery planning, and where AI earns a seat. You leave with a build path, not another deck. URL: https://haroonabidawan.com/services/consultancy ### Websites A front door that earns the click. A site should carry the brand without apologizing. I ship marketing and product front doors that load clean, read calm, and hand off without mystery. Vogue Boutique is proof: Benefit and Easy Pay wired for local checkout, not a generic Stripe paste-in. WordPress stays in the lane when it is the right tool. URL: https://haroonabidawan.com/services/websites ### Web platforms Software people live in every day. Platforms are not brochures. They are systems people open on a Tuesday morning and expect to work. I build SaaS, portals, and multi-tenant products where tenancy, APIs, and auth are in the first release, not a late rework before launch. URL: https://haroonabidawan.com/services/platforms ### Mobile apps The pocket screen is only half the product. An app without a serious backend is a demo in a nicer case. Awal Gas is the pattern: cylinder ordering, maintenance flows, and an admin panel the ops team runs daily. I take on mobile-shaped products when the API contract, auth, and ops panel ship in the same brief as the screens. URL: https://haroonabidawan.com/services/mobile ### Custom systems When the template is the problem. Templates end where your edge cases begin. ForwardChess unified Laravel and WordPress with SSO when one login had to span two surfaces. Custom systems are for CRMs, automation glue, Keycloak estates, and workflows that refuse a marketplace theme. URL: https://haroonabidawan.com/services/custom ## Featured work ### HireMe GCC Job boards burn candidates. Privacy dies first. Video-first recruitment for the GCC with stealth presence, employer blocklists, ghost mode, and AI-assisted product features on a gluestack Turbo Repo with FastAPI. Outcome: Live at hireme-gcc.com. Candidates stay in control. Verified employers come to them. URL: https://hireme-gcc.com/ ### SellIt GCC Investment properties and businesses across the GCC needed one EN/AR marketplace, not a spreadsheet trail. Building Sell-It GCC on the same gluestack Turbo Repo and Python FastAPI services that carry HireMe. Outcome: Live at sellit-gcc.com. Properties and businesses listed for regional buyers. URL: https://sellit-gcc.com/ ### Crisis Pass Expatriates needed an evacuation plan before the crisis, not after the airport board went red. Secure, high-availability architecture with rigid data validation for crisis preparedness and evacuation support across Bahrain and the wider Middle East. Outcome: Live at crisispass.com. Real human support wired into a product that has to hold under pressure. URL: https://crisispass.com/ ### RentIt Bahrain A rental marketplace had to launch in Bahrain and stay ready for KSA and GCC scale. Engineered and launched RentIt Bahrain. Now architecting scaling, localization, and database structures for regional expansion. Outcome: Live at rentit-bh.com. Direct landlord rentals, expanding toward KSA and the GCC. URL: https://rentit-bh.com/ ## Experience ### Bespoke Marketing · Senior Software Engineer Feb 2026 to present RentIt Marketplace (rentit-bh.com): engineered and launched RentIt Bahrain; architecting scaling, localization, and database structures for KSA and GCC expansion. ### Nordic Holdings · Senior Software Engineer Aug 2025 to Jan 2026 Architected a scalable multi-tenant SaaS platform using NestJS, Next.js, and Turbo Repos. ### Fathom Media · Web & App Developer Apr 2025 to Aug 2025 Delivered full-stack solutions using Laravel, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, and Supabase for high-profile clients. ### SayG W.L.L · Senior Software Engineer Jul 2023 to Mar 2025 Engineered scalable backends on Laravel, Symfony, and Yii2 with AWS and VPS deployment pipelines. ### Contrive Solutions · Sub-Team Lead Nov 2021 to Jun 2023 Led project workflows and mentored developers while transitioning monoliths to microservices. ### Code Talker Innovations · Associate Software Engineer Aug 2020 to Oct 2021 Developed core web features and database schemas with PHP, Laravel, and MySQL. ## Toolkit highlights ### AI-enabled automation n8n, Ollama, AI-driven feature development, prompt engineering, agentic workflows ### Full stack PHP (Laravel, Symfony, Yii2), Node.js (NestJS), Python (FastAPI), JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, React, Next.js, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, gluestack, Tailwind CSS ### Databases & ORMs PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL, Prisma, Drizzle, Supabase, Redis ### Cloud & DevOps AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, SQS, SES), Docker, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Coolify, Traefik, Nginx, Linux, WHM / cPanel ### Architecture & messaging Microservices, Multi-tenancy, REST APIs, WebSockets, Socket.io, RabbitMQ, Turbo Repos, Swagger / OpenAPI, Git, Postman ### Security & auth Keycloak (SSO), OAuth 2.0, JWT, SSL/TLS, Zero-trust patterns ### Payment gateways Benefit, Stripe, PayPal, CardKnox, EasyPay, Credimax, Tap Payments, AFS ### Testing & quality Jest, PHPUnit, Laravel Pint, CI/CD pipelines ## FAQ ### Who is Haroon Abid Awan? Haroon Abid Awan is a Senior Full Stack and AI Enabled Automation Engineer based in Manama, Bahrain, open to relocate across the GCC. He ships multi-tenant SaaS, EN/AR platforms, and automation that still runs at midnight. ### What GCC products has Haroon shipped? Live GCC products include HireMe GCC, SellIt GCC, RentIt Bahrain, and Crisis Pass, plus Benefit and EasyPay commerce work, freelance sites, and internal CRM and automation systems. ### What services does Haroon offer? Five lanes: consultancy, websites, web platforms, mobile apps, and custom systems. Scope covers architecture, Laravel, NestJS, FastAPI, gluestack, Benefit payments, Keycloak, n8n, and Ollama where they cut real work. ### How do I hire Haroon or start a project? Use the contact page or email with a brief: what you are building, timeline, stack preferences, and how success looks in 30 days. Haroon replies with a clear next step when the fit is right. ### Which regions does Haroon serve? Bahrain is the home base today, with delivery and relocation openness across the Gulf Cooperation Council: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman. ## All routes - Home: https://haroonabidawan.com - Contact: https://haroonabidawan.com/contact - Services: https://haroonabidawan.com/services - Consultancy: https://haroonabidawan.com/services/consultancy - Websites: https://haroonabidawan.com/services/websites - Web platforms: https://haroonabidawan.com/services/platforms - Mobile apps: https://haroonabidawan.com/services/mobile - Custom systems: https://haroonabidawan.com/services/custom - Work: https://haroonabidawan.com/work - Projects: https://haroonabidawan.com/projects - About: https://haroonabidawan.com/about - Experience: https://haroonabidawan.com/experience - Toolkit: https://haroonabidawan.com/toolkit - Privacy: https://haroonabidawan.com/privacy - Credits: https://haroonabidawan.com/credits ## Brief checklist - What you are building or fixing - Timeline and constraints - Stack preferences, if any - How success looks in 30 days