FirassZiedan.
Hello, I'm Firass — a Software Engineer from Jordan. Specialised in creating fantastic digital experiences. The combination of my passion for design, code, and interaction makes me build software solutions that actually work.
Selected projects, in reverse chronologicalorder. Click any row for the case study.
Nine years of backend engineering — Drupal, then Node.js, mostly out of Amman.
I build the plumbing.
APIs, integrations, the unglamorous
server-side systems that
have to stay up.
Today. Backend engineer with eight-plus years shipping production systems for enterprise clients and product teams across the MENA region. My current focus is server-side architecture on AWS — Node.js APIs, CRM integrations, third-party orchestration with Twilio and Bedrock, and the unglamorous infrastructure work that makes the rest of it possible: web security, scheduled remediation, and keeping things online.
Before that. Three and a half years at Vardot building enterprise Drupal platforms for clients like ICARDA, Al Araby TV, the Queen Rania Award for Education Entrepreneurship, and Fitness First Middle East. I'm an Acquia-certified Drupal 8 developer, an active contributor on drupal.org, and the author of an open-source npm package for generating GraphQL APIs from Objection.js models.
How I work.In person from Amman or fully remote. Node.js and PHP for a living, JavaScript and TypeScript by preference. I care about boring things — cache headers, repayment schedules, and whether your cron jobs log enough to be debuggable at 2 a.m.
The chronological version.
The tools I reach for. Primary = the things I write every week.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate
Design resilient, high-performing, secure and cost-optimised architectures on AWS — VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudFront and the surrounding service mesh.
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Cloud concepts · Core services · Security & compliance · Billing, pricing & support — foundations for production work on EC2, RDS and S3.
Acquia Drupal 8 Certified Developer
Custom module development · Custom theme development · Drupal site building · Website migration.
Backend
- Node.js · Expressprimary
- PHP · Drupal 7/8/9primary
- GraphQL · Objection.jsprimary
- WordPress
- Microservices · serverless
- API rate-limiting
Data & infra
- MySQL · PostgreSQLprimary
- MongoDB · Cassandra
- Redis · Kafka
- WebSocket
- AWS · EC2 · RDS · S3primary
- Google Cloud · Azure
Languages & tooling
- JavaScript · TypeScriptprimary
- PHP · Shellprimary
- Twilio · third-party APIs
- Acquia Drupal 8 Certifiedcertified
- Microsoft Clarity
- SEO · performanceprimary
Code I've shipped publicly, and a small handful of words.
Articles
No long-form blog yet — would be the next natural addition.
For pieces in motion, follow the GitHub commit feed.
The fastest way to reach me.
If you're building something that needs a sturdy backend, an API surface, or a Drupal site rescued from itself — I'm listening.