About
Hello there đź‘‹
My name is Abdallah Othman, a product engineer based in Hamburg,
Germany. I’ve been building for the web for about 9 years,
these days as a Senior Growth Engineer at Lokalise.
Originally from Alexandria, Egypt; Hamburg’s been home for a while now.
It started from pure curiosity when I was 12, in my bedroom with an old
Intel Pentium III running XP. I picked up my older brother’s 1,000-page
HTML 5.0 reference and hacked my way to a first .tk website with MS
FrontPage, deleting a few dll32 files along the way, for the sake of it.
A few years of that, and a CompSci degree later, I got to do it for a
living: ABOUT YOU, XING, Postman, and now Lokalise.
Each one put me on diverse, multicultural teams, which shaped how I
communicate and lead as much as how I build.
I work best in remote-first, async teams that care about craft and ship
often. My home turf is the growth side of products: onboarding,
activation, pricing, billing, and the experiments that show what’s
actually working. My stack is TypeScript, React, and Node.
Lately, most of my building involves AI. I work with LLM agents and
MCP, including a few small tools just for myself, like a system that
turns my meetings into a searchable archive. I’m especially curious
about AI for Arabic-speaking markets and family-oriented workflows.
Outside of code, you’ll usually find me somewhere in Hamburg’s music
scene (concerts at the Elbphilharmonie) or tinkering on side projects
through my little experiment space, Escalay. The overlap of music,
culture, and technology is where a lot of my curiosity lives.
This site is my digital home: projects, a few thoughts on tech, and
notes from an Egyptian engineer living in Germany. Whether you’re here
for the technical stuff or the crossroads of culture and code, welcome.
Glad you stopped by.