Zaid Hijazi

Experience

1. 2026 — Present Rushd AI · Riyadh · on-site

   Software & AI Engineer

   • Built a biometric identity verification platform for government agencies and financial institutions, with fingerprint matching in under 1.5 seconds.
   • Integrated fingerprint scanners from three vendors (Dermalog, IB Columbo and SecuGen) into one verification flow.
   • Built an AI-powered hiring platform for companies and candidates: bulk CV analysis, two-way matching, AI voice interviews and explainable CV scoring.
   • Built an AI governance gateway, an enterprise AI agents platform, and the company website.
2. 2026 Grow (grow-ksa.com) · Remote

   Full-Stack Developer

   • Built the Jobs and Applications modules end to end, including AI candidate matching that ranks applicants against each job.
   • Built dashboards for students, employers, universities and admins, with Typesense search across jobs, students and talent pools.
   • Delivered the co-op training evaluation system, talent pools, role permissions, OTP login and audit logging.
   • Worked in a strict layered architecture on a Dockerised stack with Redis queues.
3. 2023 — Present Self-employed

   Freelance Full-Stack Developer

   • Built Promatrix ERP alone: a multi-tenant ERP for Saudi businesses with 18 modules and ZATCA Phase 2 built in.
   • Built a bilingual website and CMS for a decorative paints company on my own, from requirements to production.
   • Built a pharmacy e-commerce platform: backend, admin dashboard, and the API behind a customer app and a driver app.
   • Keep developing a corporate website for a technology integrator, managed fully from its admin panel.
   • Deployed and maintained apps on DigitalOcean and cPanel with CI/CD pipelines.
4. 2023 — 2025 Dimas Company for Contracting and Trading

   Backend Developer

   • Built and maintained server-side logic and REST APIs for web and mobile apps with Laravel and PHP.
   • Designed and tuned MySQL schemas, queries and indexes for speed and growth.
   • Added caching, background jobs and queues to cut response times and keep the system stable.
   • Built the company’s bilingual website, where every page and section is managed from the admin panel.
5. 2022 — 2023 Tradinos

   Backend Developer Intern

   • Built CRUD modules and backend services in Laravel, following clean architecture.
   • Helped design databases and backend logic for core business needs.
   • Worked in a real production environment as part of a development team.