I build software and play music.

Currently working in engineering at Sarwa, a digital wealth management platform in MENA. Before that, I spent nearly a decade at Anghami and OSN+, where I collaborated on a lot of fun projects across music streaming and entertainment.

Studied computer engineering at McGill. Originally from Lebanon.

In parallel, music is a big part of my life. Currently with Shakoosh and AÏA. Previously Turbulence (prog metal from Lebanon).

For the longer story, projects, writing, and music: seb.smelki.com.

Go protobuf toolkit for building type-safe HTTP APIs. Handlers, validation, OpenAPI docs, and client SDKs — all generated from .proto files. Designed for small, dependency-light services that still feel rigorous.

Real-time global intelligence dashboard. Synthesizes news, markets, commodities, supply chains, and conflicts with AI into one situational-awareness view. Started as a weekend project, now one of the most-starred dashboards on GitHub.

Go SDK for the Alpaca Trading API, generated from sebuf contracts. Built to scratch my own itch around algorithmic trading experiments.

• agentsmith — lightweight MCP federation gateway with per-backend secret scoping
• causality — multi-platform SDK (Go + gomobile/WASM) for detecting app tampering via behavioral baselines
• iskandaria — self-hosted media library for music, movies, series, audiobooks, and podcasts
• dawlati — unified digital platform for Lebanese government services 🇱🇧
• template — full-stack project template (Go DDD + React + Pulumi + sebuf contracts)
• sebpage — this person's personal website (Go + templ)

A few things I've put on the Anghami tech blog:

• Rebuilding OSN+: A Technical Post-Mortem — modular monolith, protobuf contracts, and the birth of sebuf
• Anghami Live Radios — architecture of real-time social music streaming
• How we shifted to Work from Home on #Covid19 with little notice
• Deploying Ideas to Production

Full list at seb.smelki.com/writing.

• Shakoosh — current band
• AÏA — current project
• Turbulence — past prog metal band from Lebanon, known for split-screen cover videos
• Plus the occasional guest feature on other people's tracks

Videos and links at seb.smelki.com/music.

Go, Protocol Buffers, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, NATS, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Cloudflare, Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog. TypeScript and React when the frontend asks for it.