Alaa Helwani
Frontend developer, based in Hamburg
I am a Syrian and have been living in Hamburg (Germany) since 2015. When I was in
Syria, I finished my studies as a surgical assistant, after which I worked in many
different fields and that taught me how to learn fast and adapt to new work
environments and situations. In 2012 I flew Syria and moved around many places
(Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus and Turkey). In this period, I was working in various
side-jobs, one of them was working as a finance accountant in an insurance company in
Turkey, and in 2015 I finally went to Germany and started my life from zero again. In
2019 I started working as a surgical assistant for a Cosmetic and Hair Transplantation
clinic.
I have always been fascinated by Technology in so many ways because its evolution is
just remarkable. Many of today's standard technologies have their origin centuries
ago, then revolutionized the world and have now become the norm. Then suddenly the
next big innovation changes our lives and creates a “new normal”. This cycle seems to
continue over and over, and I want to become a part of it and decent deeper and deeper
into the rabbithole.
