At Ford Motor Company, my work sits in the practical middle of full-stack delivery: frontend systems, backend APIs, CI/CD, and the day-to-day judgment required to move enterprise software through real constraints. The useful story is not a secret system or a dramatic metric. ...more
Software Engineer
Hussein KarakiProduct Engineer
"Product management is the new bottleneck" - Andrew Ng
Current startup
KDrama FanClub
iOS app currently in beta
KDrama FanClub is an iOS social app for K-drama fans to discuss shows, share theories, send messages, follow favorite actors and dramas, and connect with other fans.
It is built around the behavior fans already have after finishing a show: quick reactions, actor chatter, hot takes, favorite lists, and the need to find people who care about the same drama.
Visit kdramafanclub.com
Writing
K-Drama Fan Club is a consumer social app project for fans who want a place to react, discuss, and keep the feeling of a show alive after the finale. The project started as a product hypothesis, not just an app idea. ...more
AI has become part of how I build, but not because I want to outsource judgment. I use AI tools to compress the distance between idea, implementation, and iteration. ...more
Side projects are useful because they force full-stack ownership. There is no separate platform team, no handoff ceremony, and no one else to blame when DNS, deployment, storage, auth, or monitoring gets fuzzy. ...more
When I say product engineer, I do not mean "frontend engineer with taste" or "developer who attends product meetings." I mean an engineer who is useful before the ticket is fully shaped and after the first version ships. ...more
A side project is not automatically impressive. Plenty of them are abandoned, overbuilt, or shaped around the builder's taste instead of a user's need. ...more
AI can make software development feel dramatically faster. It can also create a lot of polished work that nobody has really understood. ...more
About
Product-minded engineering without losing the engineering.
I'm a software engineer based in the Detroit area. I've spent most of my career building web applications, backend systems, cloud-backed services, and internal tools. Recently, my work has shifted toward the overlap between engineering, product judgment, and AI-assisted execution.
I like owning problems end-to-end: understanding the customer, shaping the solution, building the system, and shipping something real.
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