My Journey

Being honest about personal challenges is the best way to tell your story. It starts with passion and end with eating fried chicken and beer!

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It started with passion

15 years ago, I was a student in Engineering faculty hoping to study mechanical engineering. I was obsessed with Japanese anime and I decided to build a website for anime fans in my country Egypt. I didn't have any money to hire an expert so I decided to build it myself by learning how to design and how to write code. At this time there weren't a good tutorials and courses. I suffered a lot to learn it by myself. Finally, My website was published and I fell in love with web design.

Big Decision!

I decided to leave Engineering Faculty and move to computer science. I learned programming, algorithms and data structures. I discovered that we always need design before writing code and that lead me to learn design. I applied to art and design diploma and joined premium courses.

Shaping My Mind

Now, I have the knowledge of both fields that control IT and software industry. Design & Programming or development. I loved web design so i made my focus on it. I specialized in web design & development.

Bad News!

After studying Philosophy, Science , History, .. etc. I no longer believe in Islam as religion from god. I never been convinced, I was just born Muslim because Arabs conquer my country Egypt and spread Islamic religion and Arabic language. My boss fired me from my job and told me either I back to Islam or lose my job as a senior web designer & developer. It was very cruel after what i have done for this company. No one wanted to hire me after discovering I am an ex-Muslim. I couldn't pay my rent or buy food.

Never give up

I decided to be a freelancer for the first time. I joined freelancing platform such as upwork, freelancer, toptal. I remember when I started, I hadn’t eat anything for a month. I was very hungry and tired but I tried working without food until I got my first client and he was amazed with results. I got paid and bought food for my favorite meal. Fried chicken bucket from Kentucky with beer. It tasted different this time. It tastes freedom. I got to know clients from USA, England, Germany and many other countries. I felt love working with all of them. I felt I belong to the world and no thing can stop me.

Joey and KFC bucket