Mahmoud Aglan

Profile

Founder of AL-Arcade, a Cairo software house and game studio, since 2022. I design, build and run software end to end: ERPs that government and private organisations run their day on, multi-tenant platforms, mobile apps, AI assistants that work safely on sensitive data, motion-controlled games for global hardware brands, and the infrastructure all of it lives on.

Experience

• Built Club ERP, the system a Ministry of Youth & Sports club runs on: 80+ modules on a PHP framework I wrote, event-driven double-entry accounting, HR and payroll, from first commit to production in 5.5 months.
• Built El Captain, a multi-tenant academy platform with its own control plane; OC Sport runs 850+ players on it, with 960 automated tests and a 354-page Arabic user guide.
• Designed a guarded AI assistant on live ERP data: read-only at the database level, permission-scoped, masked and logged.
• Built El3ab, an Arabic platform for chess, ludo, domino and tawla with Stockfish bots and an in-house tournament engine (452 production deploys).
• Built DevPilot, a self-hosted platform that runs Claude Code agents from my phone: 513 agent runs and about 400 agent commits in two months.
• Shipped nine motion-controlled booth games for MSI, Cooler Master and PureGanic, 2023 to 2024.
• Run the company infrastructure alone: 73 apps and 42 databases on one server, moved to a new provider with 19 minutes of downtime.
• Lead a team on my own GitLab: 135 repositories, 4,084 commits, eleven team members.

How I work

Selected work

• Club ERP2026

  The system a whole club runs on: members and families, money, sports, bookings, staff and stock, in one place.

• Captain, the guarded AI2026

  Managers ask in plain Arabic and get numbers, charts and reports from live data. It can only read, and only what that manager may see.

• El Captain2026

  Multi-tenant academy software. OC Sport runs more than 850 players on it: programmes by age, schedules, attendance, billing and a parents’ portal.

• El3ab2025-2026

  Chess, ludo, domino and tawla in one Arabic-first game, with Stockfish bots, ratings, tournaments, clubs and a full operator console.

• DevPilot2026

  My own agent platform: I type a task on my phone, a Claude Code agent works in the real repo on the server, streams its progress and pushes the commit.

• The Club members’ app2026

  The club in a member’s pocket: a digital card with a QR gate pass, the whole family, bookings and news.

• Members’ app and legacy bridge2026

  A members’ app, a staff portal and a gate scanner for a club of about 80,000 members, fed by the club’s 20-year-old desktop system without replacing it.

• MSI Katana Warrior2023-2024

  A body-controlled samurai game: swing your arms to cut through 50 ninjas, then spin the prize wheel. It drew queues at MSI stands for months.

• Cooler Master Play & Win2024

  A cyberpunk runner you play with your body. Raise both hands to start. It packed Cooler Master’s stand for two days.

• IStalk2026

  Asymmetric multiplayer horror: one player is a giant Eye watching a procedural dollhouse, the others are Runners looting it in first person, slowed by everything they steal.

• Hospital on a Budget2026

  Four-player online co-op: clumsy physics hands give real first aid to ragdoll patients, wave after wave, until the clinic reaches Class S or goes bankrupt.

• AL-Arcade MC Launcher2026

  A redesigned Bedrock launcher for Mac and Windows with automatic world backups and pack management, plus servers where Bedrock and Java players share one world.

• al-arcade.com2026

  The company site in English and Arabic from one template, with working miniatures of the systems the studio builds playing on the home page.

• The 19-minute move2026

  Moved the company’s entire 71-service production box to a new provider with 19 minutes of downtime, after checking every database byte for byte.