Chady Kassouf

Full-stack developer & technical leader. Twenty-six years of shipping products across web, mobile, and cloud.

Based in Canada
Available for work
About Chady Kassouf

CTO, tech lead, and solo developer.

I'm a versatile full-stack developer and technical leader with over 26 years of experience shipping products across web, mobile, and cloud platforms. I've built everything from food delivery platforms and adtech systems to educational tools and casual games.

I'm based in Canada and always interested in challenging projects that push boundaries.

What I do

Full-stack development

Backend to frontend to infrastructure. Laravel, Node.js, React, Vue, databases, cloud services.

Technical leadership

CTO and lead roles guiding cross-functional teams, scaling systems, and turning rough MVPs into production-ready products.

Mobile & cross-platform

Native iOS and Android with Swift, Kotlin, and Objective-C. Native macOS desktop apps. Hybrid when it makes sense.

AI integration

Chatbots, image recognition, real-time voice interaction, and workflow automation using OpenAI APIs and custom ML pipelines.

Selected work

2000 — 2026
001

Livro

Food delivery · Full-stack lead

Built the entire stack — apps, POS, payments, inventory, microservices. Scaled to multiple cities serving thousands of customers.

Laravel · Swift · Kotlin · AWS · Stripe

002

Teach

EdTech SaaS · CTO

Led the development lifecycle from MVP to full product. Optimized performance, supported SOC2 compliance, scaled the platform.

Laravel · Vue · AWS · SOC2

003

Choozle

Adtech · Senior developer

Supported a multi-million-dollar advertising platform — maintaining a legacy system while ensuring reliability at scale.

PHP · MySQL · Redis

004

Product of the Year

Asset management · Lead developer

Built a global asset management platform used in 40+ countries — media conversions, billing, notifications, and reporting.

Laravel · Vue · AWS

005

Abaad

NGO / training · Solo developer

Designed and built a custom online course system with certificate generation for gender-based violence case management workers.

Laravel · Vue · MySQL

006

Smartcards+

EdTech · Solo developer

Backend and database for a spaced-repetition iOS learning tool.

Laravel · MySQL

007

Lawn Mower

iOS game · Solo developer

Casual iOS puzzle game with 250 handcrafted levels.

Swift · SpriteKit · iOS

008

Censor This

iOS app · Solo developer

Blur and pixelate sensitive parts of photos and videos, with auto-tracking and face detection.

Swift · Core Image · iOS

009

Masstone

iOS / Mac / Android · Solo developer

Turns a color into a paint mixing recipe using spectral color science, not RGB averaging.

Swift · Kotlin · SwiftUI · Compose

010

Living Book

Web editor

A web editor for creating and sharing animated books using Phaser.js.

011

Crush the Numbers

Game engine

TypeScript numbers puzzle game engine with backend.

012

60fps Camera

iOS app

Early iOS camera app that unlocked high frame-rate video recording.

013

NoSquint

Accessibility

Accessibility dialer designed for visually impaired users.

014

Crowdservice

Marketplace

Job posting and bidding platform with payments, escrow, and payout workflows.

015

The Cloud Life

File platform

File management platform with iOS app, API backend, subscription billing, and secure storage.

Toolbox

The tool follows the problem. After 26 years, the names on the list change more than the work does.

Backend & APIs

Currently reaching for PHP/Laravel and Node.js. Comfortable in whatever the project runs on.

Frontend

Currently reaching for React, Vue, and TypeScript. Have shipped in most of what came before them.

Mobile & desktop

Swift on iOS and Kotlin on Android. Objective-C, Java, and Electron when the situation calls for it.

Data

MySQL, with Redis where it fits. The shape of the data picks the store.

Infrastructure

AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB), Docker, and Nginx. Have run things on bare metal too.

AI & third-party APIs

Chatbots, image analysis, voice, and workflow automation. Years of plugging in payments, telephony, maps, identity, and the rest.