Sydney, Australia

I build custom systems around your business, not the other way around.

Nine years in e-commerce taught me that off-the-shelf software has limits. I design and build the systems that work around yours.

Ali Kaba
Selected work

Things I've built

Marketplace grabit.au
19x faster than WooCommerce

GRABIT

Australia's first marketplace where brands share in retailer success. Retailers list instantly using brand-maintained product data. Rebuilt from WooCommerce mid-development resulting in a 19x performance improvement.

SvelteKitMedusaJSPostgresDirectusMeiliSearchRedisCloudflare
Team management tiro.gg
Live in production

Tiro

Central command for Marvel Rivals competitive teams. Handles player recruitment, roster management, availability tracking, event scheduling, and scrim coordination — all connected to Discord.

SvelteKitPocketbaseDiscord APINGINXDocker
Internal tooling Internal — not publicly accessible
3 channels unified

Casa Hub

Proprietary OMS built for a major Australian outdoor furniture manufacturer launching D2C. Syncs inventory and orders across Shopify, Freedom Furniture, and Temple & Webster from a single source of truth.

SvelteKitPocketbaseShopify GraphQLMirakl APIPuppeteer
Background

How I got here

It started with managing eBay stores. Then building a WooCommerce site. Then realising the tools I needed didn't exist — so I built them.

After years of listing products on marketplaces, I saw firsthand how much time retailers waste recreating product data that brands had already perfected. That frustration became GRABIT. The pattern kept repeating — a business with a problem, no off-the-shelf solution, so I'd build one.

That's still what I do. I understand the operational reality of the businesses I work with, which means I build things that actually get used.

Sydney, Australia — open to remote work worldwide
I work with
Frontend
SvelteKitSvelte 5TypeScriptTailwind CSS
Backend
Node.jsMedusaJSDirectusPocketbase
Data
PostgreSQLRedisMeiliSearch
Infrastructure
DockerNGINXCloudflareTraefik
Integrations
Shopify APIStripeMirakleBay SDK
Previously
C# / .NETPHPWordPressMagento 2
Get in touch

Got a problem worth solving?

Tell me about your business and what you're trying to fix. I'll come back to you within 24 hours.