The Journey — Ahmed Alaa

2013–2017

Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting

Cairo University · Cairo

Accounting, auditing and tax as a formal discipline — the vocabulary everything after this is built on.
Graduated into a market where finance was still run out of spreadsheets.

ExcelFinancial Accounting

2017

Accountant

Arab Organization for Accounting, Auditing & Tax · Cairo

Handled a portfolio of tax and audit clients across several industries.
Finalized the taxation paperwork that lets newly registered companies exist at all.
Learned to read a company from its books in a week, a habit that never left.

TaxAuditExcel

2017–2020

Accountant → General Accounting Supervisor

TEZ Tour · Cairo & Sharm El-Sheikh

Promoted to supervise general accounting for a high-volume tourism operation.
Reconciled the accounts payable ledger and chased every discrepancy back to its vendor statement.
Best Performance award in 2018 and again in 2019.
First real taste of building controls instead of just recording transactions.

Oracle EBSExcelInternal Controls

2020–2021

Senior Group Accountant

Tuwasol Group · Saudi Arabia · remote

Consolidated accounts across group entities from another country, fully remote.
Monthly, quarterly and year-end closings delivered on time, every time.
First ZATCA and VAT work — the Saudi compliance track starts here.

ZATCAVATGroup Consolidation

2021–2025

Senior Financial Officer

QDB · Cairo

Built the company's finance policy and procedures framework from a blank page.
Delivered monthly consolidated statements, payment schedules and cash-flow reporting to HQ.
Owned project cost forecasts, budgets and the controls that kept them honest.
Four years of writing down how money should move — the groundwork for encoding it later.

Policy & ProceduresReportingExcel

2021–nowEntrepreneur track

Founder — Tardel 3PL

Own venture · Egypt

Tardel: 50+ drivers and 200+ trips a month, running on an ERPNext system I built and still maintain.
Fleet, trips, invoicing, payroll and WhatsApp notifications — one system, no copy-paste.
Being the client taught me more about ERP than any implementation brief.

ERPNextFrappeOperations

2023–2024

Certificate, Computer Software Engineering

Holberton School · remote

Went back to school mid-career: algorithms, data structures and systems in Python, C and JavaScript.
Full-stack practice — HTML, CSS and React on the front; Node.js, Django and Flask behind.
Git, Agile, Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD — the engineering discipline behind everything I now build.

PythonJavaScriptReactDocker

2025–now

Senior Accountant

Twasul Future Co. · Jeddah

Set up Odoo ERP and the executive dashboards leadership actually opens.
Automated lease and contract schedules that used to be rebuilt by hand every month.
VAT returns filed on the ZATCA platform; fixed assets, payroll and custody accounts managed end to end.
Accounting, configuration and automation handled by one person — no translation loss.

Odoon8nDashboards

From ledger entries to the system that makes them.