Hello again. I’m Moaz.
There’s more to me than the projects on the main page. This is the longer path into the things I build, the tools I care about, and the interests I return to when I step away from code.
School and Thanaweya Amma
During Thanaweya Amma, I was the top student at my school and ranked 11th in my governorate. It is an early chapter I want to keep here because it sits before the engineering projects and explains something quieter about me: I have always enjoyed the long process of learning something properly.
Studying Computer Engineering
That path led me to Computer Engineering at Suez Canal University. University is where my interest in software became less abstract: not only using systems, but asking how their layers fit together and how I could build them myself.
Modaresy, my first startup
Modaresy (مدرّسي) was a marketplace connecting students with tutors, and my first experience building a startup with a team. My role was CAIO, focused on AI, but much of what I took from it happened beyond the technical work.
We went through extensive business training and developed our business model, learning what it takes to turn an idea into a viable business. I also spoke with hundreds of teachers. Those conversations taught me about communicating, understanding people’s needs, and working with different personalities. We eventually won third place at the Creativa Ismailia competition; what stays with me is how the experience opened up the business and human sides of building a product.
Linux, Neovim, and making the tools mine
I enjoy Linux and Neovim partly because they invite curiosity. My development environment is something I can open up, understand, and shape around the way I work. Adjusting a keybinding, reading a configuration file, or tracing why a tool behaves a certain way is not separate from programming for me. It is another form of building.
That setup will keep changing, which is exactly why I want to leave room for it here rather than freeze it into a list of technologies.
Across the chessboard
Chess has taken up a good part of my time: playing, learning, and trying to improve. I like the way a position rewards patience, pattern recognition, and the willingness to revisit a decision that looked obvious a move earlier.
Learning Chinese
I’m learning Chinese, one class and one page of practice at a time. These photographs hold a few pieces of that journey: a course certificate and the workbook pages behind it.
