Personal site. Zaher Ghaibeh
Building on the web since 2006.
I'm a senior software engineer from Syria living currently in Türkiye. This site is where I keep the long-form notes, the small experiments, and the work I'm most proud of.
Snapshot
Where the work is right now.
A quick read of the practice. The company, the stack, the lab, and the long arc behind both.
Currently
Open to workAvailable for senior engineering work.
Most recently shipped AI-first WordPress tooling at Extendify (Launch AI and the AI Agent). Now splitting time between open-source projects, AI experiments, and rebuilding the home lab from scratch on a new MiniPC with Proxmox VE.
- Open to work
- Open source
- AI tooling
- Self-hosting
Years
20+
of professional web work, from the LAMP era to the edge.
Stack
- →PHP, Laravel, WordPress
- →NextJS, Hono
- →TypeScript, React, VueJS
- →Linux, Docker, Docker
- →Postgres, MySQL
Lab
Docker, Docker swarm and PVE.
Running Traefik, Umami, n8n, and a handful of small services locally or on my small VPS Kept boring on purpose.
Now reading
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A Philosophy of Software Design · John Ousterhout
Yaknyam Press
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The MCP Standard · Srinivasan Sekar
Apress
Public signals
- → Packt technical reviewer for Laravel Application Development Blueprints
- → Leanpub author of Building Web Applications Using Parse REST API
Field notes
Selected writing.
My new Wordpress plugins development workflow
I'll just explain the new way that I am planing to use for working with Wordpress plugins development
Building a WordPress Plugin Entirely with AI Agents — In One Week
This is how I gave AI Agents the freedom to build something
Using Kindle as weather display screen
In this post I'll explain how I turned my old Kindle to show the current weather in my area when its sleep
Open source
Selected projects.
bab
MCP server on Bun that bridges MCP clients with AI CLI tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini.
k3s-recipe
Small practical recipes for running a K3s Raspberry Pi cluster.
cloudflare-workers-prisma-postgres-example
Cloudflare Workers, Prisma, and Postgres in a compact TypeScript example.
supabase-umami
Unofficial Docker image for running Umami analytics with Supabase support.
litepress
WordPress with SQLite and Composer for personal experiments and portability.
Work history
Twenty years, mostly product engineering.
The roles I remember, in reverse chronological order. Full history and CV on request.
Education
Software foundation, then innovation management.
Get in touch
Working on something interesting?
I'm open to consulting, collaboration, and thoughtful technical work. Email is the fastest path. I read everything and reply within a day or two.