MenuMate
Live
Web / SaaS
SaaS platform that lets restaurants create digital menus, generate QR codes, and accept real-time orders from a single dashboard. SEO-optimized and multilingual.
- Next.js
- React
- Tailwind
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL
Ala Baganne · Full-Stack Software Engineer
Full-Stack engineer building web apps, online stores & AI systems.
I build full-stack applications, AI features, custom Shopify themes, e-commerce stores, and landing pages for individuals and businesses. 5+ years delivering software for international clients.
- Monastir, Tunisia
- alabaganne9@gmail.com
- Years of experience
- 5+
- Users on a platform I help build
- 25K+
- Upwork job success
- 100%
- Production projects
- 10+
Work
Selected work, shipped.
Selected freelance, internship, and academic work across SaaS, e-commerce, and web applications.
Karta
Gift card store
Web
Online store for gaming and streaming gift cards in Tunisia, where most people can't pay online with an international card. Buyers pay in dinars by D17, bank transfer or cash, and get their code by email. French, English and Arabic.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind
- MySQL
- Drizzle
PromptStream
AI dictation for macOS & Linux
Desktop / SaaS
System-wide AI dictation app that turns speech into clean text and pastes it into the active app. Includes configurable shortcuts, a personal dictionary, multilingual transcription, and searchable local history.
- Electron
- React
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Supabase
BackupMaster
Native macOS app
Desktop
Native macOS app for backing up iPhone photos and videos over USB or local Wi-Fi. Copies only missing files, retries interrupted transfers, organizes media by date or device, and includes a local photo and video gallery.
- Swift
- SwiftUI
- libimobiledevice
- Next.js
- SQLite
EXODIA Store
Custom Shopify theme
Web
I designed and developed a custom Shopify theme for exodiatn.com, a Tunisian clothing brand. The storefront includes responsive Streetwear and Techwear collections, product variants, search, and cart interactions, with French content and pricing in Tunisian dinars.
Preview password: paglow
- Shopify
- Liquid
- JavaScript
- CSS
ABSoft
Digital agency website
Web
Website I built to run my web and mobile agency for Tunisian businesses. French and English versions, a page per service with prices and FAQs, a contact form that sends email through Resend, WhatsApp contact, and share images drawn at build time.
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- CSS Modules
- Resend
Internly
End of studies project
Web / Academic
Internship platform where students find and apply to internships, companies post roles and review applicants, and admins manage students, companies, fields and skills. Includes messaging, saved roles and application tracking.
- Laravel
- Vue.js
- Inertia.js
- MySQL
- Pusher
Satoripop RH
HR platform
Web / Internship
Human resources management platform with role-based dashboards for managers, HR, project managers, and employees, built during my 2020 internship.
- Vue.js
- Laravel
- MySQL
- Bootstrap
- Swagger
Taroura Arena
Gym & karate club website
Web / Freelance
Website for Taroura Arena, a gym and karate club in Jemmal, Tunisia. Full-screen video hero, training programmes, weekly class schedule, pricing plans, and trial-session booking by form or WhatsApp. French content, mobile-first.
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
Socialura
E-commerce
Web / Freelance
Built for an Upwork client, a modern, performance-optimized platform for selling digital social services with clean responsive UI/UX and Stripe payment integration.
- WordPress
- CSS
- Stripe
- Custom UI
About
I build software that holds up in production.
From custom storefronts and personal websites to SaaS products and AI workflows, I turn requirements into working software.
I'm a Full-Stack Software Engineer with 5+ years of professional experience. I build SaaS products and AI applications, design custom Shopify themes, and create e-commerce stores and landing pages for individuals and businesses. I work across frontend, backend, integrations, and deployment.
I work part-time at Retain Health, contributing to RetainYourBrain, a digital health platform with 25,000+ users. From October 2025 to May 2026, I also worked part-time at Wequity on NORA, an AI-powered legal document automation platform built with FastAPI, Supabase, GCP, and Vertex AI.
On the side, I run my own products. MenuMate is a SaaS I designed, built and launched for restaurants to manage digital menus, QR codes, and real-time orders. I'm Top Rated on Upwork with a 100% Job Success Score.
Services
What I can build for you.
Web and application development, AI integration, custom Shopify themes, e-commerce, landing pages, database work, mobile apps and custom software.
- 01
Web applications & SaaS
Full-stack products from database to deployment: dashboards, booking systems, internal tools and SaaS products.
- Next.js
- React
- Node.js
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL
- 02
AI features & integrations
LLM features built into your product: RAG knowledge bases, document processing pipelines and translation workflows.
- OpenAI API
- Vertex AI
- DSPy
- RAG
- FastAPI
- 03
Shopify themes & e-commerce
Custom Shopify themes and online stores with product catalogs, variants, search, cart and payment integrations.
- Shopify
- Liquid
- Stripe
- Square
- 04
Landing pages & websites
Fast, responsive and SEO-ready websites for businesses and individuals, in one language or several.
- Next.js
- Tailwind
- WordPress
- Resend
Experience
Experience with international teams and clients.
Five years of continuous shipping through long-term contracts, freelance wins, and product-led work for distributed teams.
Aug 2021 — Present
Retain Health, Inc.
Part-time contract · Boston, MA · Remote
Software Engineer
Healthcare platform with 25,000+ users focused on Alzheimer's prevention through personalized lifestyle interventions.
- Core contributor to RetainYourBrain, building and maintaining production features since August 2021.
- Built core features full-stack on AngularJS, Express.js, Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript and MySQL.
- Designed a dynamic form system with complex conditional logic powering personalized routines and topic recommendations.
- Created reusable AngularJS services with dependency injection to reduce redundant API calls and improve frontend performance.
- Introduced automated testing with Jest, Cypress, Mocha, Supertest, Karma, Protractor, plus GA4/GTM analytics.
- AngularJS
- Express.js
- React Native
- TypeScript
- MySQL
- AWS
- Google Analytics
Oct 2025 — May 2026
Wequity
Part-time contract · Brussels, Belgium · Remote
Full-Stack & AI Engineer
Legal tech company building AI-powered tools for law firms and notaries across Belgium and the Netherlands.
- Built full-stack features for NORA, an AI-powered legal document processing platform handling English, French, and Dutch documents on React, FastAPI, and Supabase.
- Built a Smart Processing module that learns document transformation patterns from example pairs using LLM APIs and DSPy.
- Developed a RAG-based Knowledge Base where users query uploaded legal documents and get AI-generated answers with source citations.
- Integrated DeepL API for legal document translation across English, French and Dutch.
- Designed background task architecture using Google Cloud Tasks and Pub/Sub for async document processing.
- React
- FastAPI
- Supabase
- GCP
- Vertex AI
- LLM Integration
- OpenAI API
- DSPy
- BigQuery
- DeepL
Aug 2024 - Present
Upwork (Top Rated)
Self-employed · Worldwide · Remote
Freelance Web Developer
Top Rated freelancer with a 100% Job Success Score, building web applications, custom Shopify themes, e-commerce stores, and landing pages for individuals and businesses.
- Completed seven Upwork contracts, each rated five stars.
- Built the Martinez Auto Detail booking system with dynamic pricing and secure card storage.
- Developed Socialura for a client, a WordPress website with Stripe checkout for digital service sales.
- Next.js
- React
- Node.js
- Tailwind
- Supabase
- Shopify
- WordPress
- Stripe
- Square
Jul 2023 — Aug 2023
satoripop
Internship · Sousse, Tunisia · Hybrid
Full-Stack Developer Intern
Built a Google Meet-style video meeting platform independently during the internship.
- Built video meeting platform with authentication, meeting creation, scheduling, protected pages, and Jitsi-powered calls.
- Delivered both frontend and backend independently with React, TypeScript, Express.js and MySQL.
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Express.js
- MySQL
- Jitsi SDK
Feb 2021 — May 2021
Realinflo
Internship · Hong Kong SAR · Remote
Full-Stack Developer Intern
Built an admin dashboard for a real estate intelligence platform, working directly with the CTO via weekly milestones.
- Built an admin dashboard with Vue.js and Node.js to manage and visualize property data.
- Delivered enhanced data visualization and reporting through weekly milestone reviews with the CTO.
- Vue.js
- Quasar
- Node.js
- Feathers.js
- MongoDB
- SCSS
Jul 2020 — Aug 2020
satoripop
Internship · Sousse, Tunisia · Hybrid
Web Development Intern
Designed and developed a web application to manage company employees and converted a PSD landing page design into a fully responsive site.
- Built Satoripop RH, a Vue.js and Laravel HR platform with role-based dashboards for managers, HR, project managers and employees.
- Documented backend API endpoints using Swagger/OpenAPI for clean handoff and future contributors.
- Converted a PSD landing-page design into a responsive e-commerce front-end with hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Vue.js
- Laravel
- MySQL
- Bootstrap
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
Skills
Full-stack, end to end.
Hands-on across the modern web stack, from typed frontends to async pipelines on managed cloud.
AI & Modern Stack
LLM integration, RAG systems, vector databases, document processing pipelines.
- LLM Integration
- RAG Systems
- DSPy
- OpenAI API
- Vertex AI
- Vector DBs
- OCR
- Apache Tika
- AI Agents
Frontend & Storefronts
Responsive applications, custom Shopify themes, e-commerce stores, and landing pages.
- React.js
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Shopify
- Custom Themes
- WordPress
- Vue.js
- AngularJS
- Tailwind CSS
- Shadcn UI
- React Native
Backend & Databases
Scalable APIs, async pipelines, well-modeled relational and vector data.
- Node.js
- NestJS
- Express.js
- FastAPI
- Laravel
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
Cloud & DevOps
Production deployments, CI/CD, background processing, monitoring.
- AWS
- GCP Cloud Run
- Pub/Sub
- Cloud Tasks
- Docker
- Linux
- Supabase
- Vercel
Testing & Practices
Automated test suites, code review, API design, and Agile delivery.
- Jest
- Cypress
- Mocha
- Supertest
- Karma
- Protractor
- Agile/Scrum
- Git
Languages
Strong typed and dynamic languages across the full stack.
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Python
- PHP
- SQL
- HTML5
- CSS3
- C
Education
Formal training in software engineering.
Top-of-class admission to the competitive Software Engineering track at ISSAT Sousse, with a foundation in fundamentals and modern practice.
Sep 2021 — Jun 2024
Engineer's Degree, Software Engineering
ISSAT Sousse — Institut Supérieur des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie
Selected as one of the top Computer Science students to join the competitive engineering program. Curriculum emphasized advanced software architecture, backend system design, and industry-standard practices.
2018 — Jul 2021
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science
ISSAT Sousse
Ranked among the top 5 students out of 90, earning direct admission to the Software Engineering degree program. End-of-studies project: Internly, a full-stack internship platform.
Certifications
- CCNA: Introduction to NetworksCisco · 2022
- MTA: Introduction to Programming Using PythonMicrosoft · 2021
- MTA: Database FundamentalsMicrosoft · 2021
- MTA: Programming Using JavaScriptMicrosoft · 2019
- MTA: Programming Using HTML and CSSMicrosoft · 2019