Omar Albeik

Omar Albeik

Building products and leading teams

I run Harf Labs and lead Unblock Syria, a volunteer-run initiative working to restore digital access for Syrians.

My background spans software, product development, and digital transformation, with experience at Booking.com, Spotify, Backbase, and Udacity.

I’m from Aleppo, live in Amsterdam, and write here in Arabic and English. More about my work.

Now

Finishing up a new project at Harf Labs.

Experimenting with water fasting. Practicing thuluth, slowly.

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Tutorial18 min read

Cloudflare D1: save drafts with SQL

Add persistent drafts to a Hono app with Cloudflare D1. Build a schema, run migrations, write safe queries, handle conflicting edits, and keep local, preview, and production data separate.

Article6 min read

An introduction to Cloudflare's ecosystem

How Cloudflare's networking, security, compute, and storage services fit together, with Unblock Syria as a working example and a look at the five-dollar Workers plan.

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