Network designs at work, custom builds at Forzateks, and the occasional weekend experiment.
Network2024–26
SD-WAN rollout across 300+ retail sites
HPE Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN for a regional retail group, rolled out to 300+ sites across the GCC: EdgeHA, MPLS + internet underlays, Business Intent Overlays and BGP/OSPF routing, with legacy firewall/router sites migrated to the new fabric. (Sanitized: client details withheld.)
EdgeConnect virtual appliances in Microsoft Azure with IPSec to HQ and branches, plus a proof of concept that ran fabric tunnels over a private Azure path.
HPE Aruba SSE (formerly Axis Security) connectors and role-based Zero Trust (ZTNA) policies for a hybrid workforce, replacing legacy VPN access to internal apps.
Site survey and audit of an Aruba Instant On network at a school in Sharjah with NetAlly AirMapper heatmaps and air-quality analysis, ending in redesign recommendations.
Export-desk site for NOVOSIC, a UAE medical equipment supplier — 13-brand catalog, product categories, and export services spanning Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.
A focused Zoho Creator workflow that splits scanned GS1-128 barcodes into clean product, batch and expiry fields, so medical stock is traceable without retyping.
Corporate site for TGT — a marine supplies and FMCG distribution group spanning 11 pages across their divisions and partner brands. Hand-coded, no framework.
High-conversion landing page for a UAE online fitness coaching brand — a 120-day transformation program as a dark editorial one-pager: hand-drawn hero type, scroll-driven day counter, application funnel to WhatsApp. Near-zero JS shipped.
Editorial digital storefront for a London performance & luxury car dealer — a brand site that doubles as a working inventory showroom. Built from a blank repo on Next.js 16 + React 19 with a custom editorial-Swiss design system: Sora display type, racing-red accents, hairline geometry, 9 statically-rendered routes.
Operations app for a UAE container-transport company — jobs and invoicing, driver commissions, diesel logs that flag fuel efficiency below 2.0 km/L, fleet and supplier management, live revenue and profit dashboards, PDF and Excel exports. (Internal tool.)
Internal operations platform for a network/security engineering team — session & time tracking, task management with database-level approval workflows, leave & overtime on a custom credit-banding policy, engagement & POC tracking, and analytics dashboards. A PWA with a live-update system, backed by Supabase with row-level security.
A 10-page SEO site for a UAE container-trucking company, built start to finish with Claude Code, MCP servers and Cloudflare Pages, and written up as a free field guide.
The company site. A UAE technology studio building websites, apps, business automation, and AI integrations on a Zoho-centric stack — the work behind much of this list.