Full-stack developer in Sacramento. I build web products and the unglamorous internal tools that keep them running after launch. I like software that is honest about what it does and stays that way once the demo is over.
You probably landed here because this repo shares my name. Convenient. So here is what I have actually been building.
Persistent memory for AI coding agents. Findings, tasks, and patterns live as markdown in a git repo you own, so the next session starts where the last one ended. No database, no lock-in. Plays nice with Claude, Copilot, Cursor, and Codex.
Spreadsheet behavior for any table. Headless React hooks for inline edit, range select, the fill handle, and copy/paste. Drop them on shadcn, Material, Fluent, or a plain old table element. MIT licensed.
Max for Live devices written in Python instead of clicked together in a GUI. Pure standard library, ships to PyPI, and carries the test coverage to prove the .amxd files actually load.
github.com/alaarab/m4l-builder
An MCP bridge for Ableton Live. Around 170 tools for driving sessions, clips, devices, and the mixer straight from an agent.
A pattern is showing up here: I make music in Ableton, I got annoyed at the tooling, and half of these projects are what came out the other side.
Thirteen years at ADM Associates. Most of it went into Intranet, a project-based ERP I grew into the company's primary system and licensed to clients, the one that replaced Deltek Vision. Along the way I helped build out the engineering team, set up CI/CD on GitHub Actions, and ran SOC 2-compliant Linux servers and on-prem infrastructure.
- Email: alaarab@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: ala-arab
This doubles as my portfolio site: a Bun-native app with React 19 and TypeScript 6. No meta-framework. Bun handles the dev server, bundling, and the production server. Content sits in one typed file, so projects update without anyone touching the layout.
bun install
bun devThen open localhost:3000.
Project content lives in src/data/siteContent.ts and styles sit in src/styles. Run bun run typecheck and bun run build before shipping anything. bun start runs the production server.