Bola Sydhom, Product EngineerFast, reliablesoftware people use.
6+ years shipping web products. Now at Celfocus, building for Vodafone Ireland. Open to remote roles.
Built solo, used for real.
Three products I took from idea to production, and still run.
Side product · Wedding invitation SaaS
My Rashi
A wedding invitation, live in minutes.
My Rashi turns a wedding invitation into a small website that the couple makes themselves. They choose one of 30+ animated designs, add their names, dates and venues, pay once with Instapay, and share their own site at their-names.my-rashi.com, with RSVP and a personal link for every guest. In Arabic and English.
- Animated designs, with new ones every week
- 30+
- From spec to a live, paid launch
- ~2 wks
- Arabic and English, full right-to-left
- EN · AR
- Shipping web products
- 6+ yrs
- Users across the apps I built for
- 1B+
- Old apps moved to modern frameworks
- 2
- People in a CRM I built alone
- ~650
I don’t just close tickets. I find the real problem and stay on it until it’s solved.
Selected work.
Problems I owned, from first question to shipped.
Experience.
Five companies, always close to the product.
CelfocusSenior Software Engineer, Vodafone Ireland · 2026-Present
Software engineering for telecom clients, working remotely from Cairo.
Senior Software Engineer, Vodafone Ireland · Jul 2026 - Present
- Full-stack engineering for Vodafone Ireland with Ext JS and Java, as part of a Celfocus client team
Full-Stack Developer, Jawwy (STC) · Mar 2026 - Jul 2026
- Worked across the full stack for Jawwy, STC’s digital mobile brand in Saudi Arabia, including React Native mobile development
Luciqformerly InstabugSenior Front-End Developer · 2022-2026
Front-end for app monitoring and debugging tools used by apps with over a billion users combined.
Senior Front-End Developer · Apr 2025 - Feb 2026
- Led moving a large AngularJS product to Vue.js while new features kept shipping
- Built customer-facing AI features: LLM APIs through a Node.js service, answers streamed into the Vue.js UI, with checks and fallbacks
- Improved prompts and results in short cycles, based on customer feedback
- Brought AI coding tools into the team without lowering code review or testing standards
Front-End Developer II · Apr 2022 - Apr 2025
- Led the switch from Angular 1.x to Vue.js and split the code into clear modules
- Led data-heavy features, including Session Replay and flame graphs
- Made the dashboard load faster and cut automated test run time by 30%
- Raised test coverage with Jest, Karma and Cypress: unit, end-to-end and visual tests
- Mentored junior engineers and ran knowledge-sharing sessions
CegedimSoftware Developer · 2021-2022
Updated internal tools that automate cloud operations.
Software Developer · Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
- Moved old AngularJS apps to Angular 11+, including itCare, an internal tool that automates cloud operations
- Set up unit and end-to-end testing so the migration stayed safe
- Built responsive screens that matched the designs pixel for pixel
Eva PharmaFront-End Developer · 2021-2022
Healthcare products and marketing tools used across Egypt.
Front-End Developer · Mar 2021 - Jun 2022
- Led front-end work on se7atak, an Egyptian online healthcare service
- Turned marketing’s campaign ideas into small sites and form tools they could run without developers
- Made all company websites work well on phones
Penta-bProject Engineer · 2020-2021
Map-based (GIS) software for government and business clients in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Project Engineer · Aug 2020 - Apr 2021
- Delivered GIS software for INOVAR (Saudi Arabia) and the Administrative Capital for Urban Development (Egypt)
- Worked with business analysts, operations and client teams to turn requirements into working software
- Built small tools and plugins with React, Redux, Semantic UI and React-Bootstrap
Community
- External Instructor, Information Technology Institute (ITI)
- Organizer, Google Developer Group (GDG) Ismailia
Education
- Bachelor of Computers and Informatics, Suez Canal University
- Web & User Interface Development Diploma, Information Technology Institute (ITI)
Certifications
- UX Research (Udacity)
- Angular Development Cross-Skilling (Udacity)
Tools I reach for
- TypeScript
- Vue.js
- React
- React Native
- Ext JS
- Angular
- Node.js
- Java
- LLM APIs & streaming
- Web performance
- Jest & Cypress
- Legacy migration
- Technical design
- Figma
- Mentoring
Questions.
Who is Bola Sydhom?
Bola Sydhom is a product engineer in Cairo, Egypt, with 6+ years of building web products. Bola is a Senior Software Engineer at Celfocus, working remotely on projects for Vodafone Ireland and, before that, Jawwy (STC). Before Celfocus, Bola spent four years at Luciq (formerly Instabug), building customer-facing AI features, Session Replay and flame graphs, and leading the move from AngularJS to Vue.js. Earlier: Cegedim, Eva Pharma and Penta-b.
What does Bola mean by “product engineer”?
Someone who owns the result, not just the ticket. That means understanding the user’s problem, turning what product, business and marketing need into a technical plan, building it with care for speed and quality, and improving it from real customer feedback.
Has Bola built AI features?
Yes. At Luciq, Bola built customer-facing AI features from start to finish: connecting LLM APIs through a Node.js service, streaming answers into a Vue.js UI, adding checks and fallbacks for bad output, and tuning prompts from customer feedback.
What has Bola built?
Highlights: AI features, Session Replay and flame graphs for monitoring tools used by apps with over a billion users combined; two large migrations (AngularJS to Vue.js at Luciq, and AngularJS to Angular 11+ at Cegedim); and se7atak, an Egyptian online healthcare service at Eva Pharma.
What products has Bola built on the side?
Three, each built alone from idea to launch. Masroof is a household spending app that works offline, in Arabic and English, with barcode scanning, a good deal / bad deal price check and AI receipt scanning with Google Gemini. Flock is a phone-first CRM for a church’s Sunday school, covering about 650 people in 29 classes, with offline QR attendance, home-visit approvals, WhatsApp follow-ups for absences and passkey sign-in. It replaced a Google Sheet. My Rashi is a wedding invitation SaaS in Arabic and English: couples choose from 30+ animated designs, edit without signing up, pay once with Instapay and share their own invitation site with RSVP and personal guest links. An AI agent drafts new designs every week.
Which technologies does Bola work with?
TypeScript and JavaScript with Vue.js, React, React Native, Angular and Ext JS; Vuex, NgRx and Redux for state; Node.js, Java and REST APIs; LLM APIs with streaming; Jest, Karma and Cypress for testing; and Figma for working with designers.
Is Bola open to new opportunities?
Yes. Bola is open to remote product engineering and senior front-end roles, anywhere, on products with real problems to solve. Bola is based in Cairo, Egypt, is comfortable working across time zones, and speaks Arabic (native) and English (professional). The quickest way to reach Bola is email, bsydhom@gmail.com, or LinkedIn.
Let’s build something.
Open to remote product engineering and senior front-end roles. Email is the fastest way to reach me.