Software Engineering · Belfast

FerasHarah.

I build practical software: an online store for a local grocery business, database-driven games with my university team, and the site you’re reading now. I’m a Software Engineering student at Queen’s University Belfast, available now for a 2026–27 industrial placement where I can do more of this.

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What I’ve built so far.

Client work, team projects from Queen’s, and the engineering behind each one.

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In progressSelected work

Basha Pantry — online store for a local shop

WoodHouse Groceries is a real local business with hundreds of products — American imports, sweets, Asian and African foods — and no online presence. I’m building Basha Pantry, their Shopify store, from the ground up: product data, photography, categories, and storefront. The unglamorous truth of e-commerce is that the hard part isn’t the website — it’s turning a shop full of stock into a clean, consistent, professional catalogue people can actually browse.

Shopify
E-commerce
Product data

Project notes

What I learned

Working directly with a business owner: agreeing scope, priorities, and what “done” means
Product data is a real engineering problem — naming, categorising, and photographing hundreds of items consistently

Challenges

Building a catalogue that looks professional when the source material is a physical shop floor

CompletedSelected work

ReignFall — a text-adventure reborn as a web game

A database-driven text-adventure web game built by a six-person team: accounts, saves, inventory, and analytics.

JavaScript
HTML & CSS
SQL
JSON

Project notes

A first-year university project (CSC1034) that grew into a full product. ReignFall reimagines the classic text adventure for modern devices: a peasant rises against a tyrannical king, gathering allies along the way. Under the story sits real engineering — player accounts with salted and SHA-256-hashed passwords tested against sqlmap, session tokens that expire, autosave and manual saves that rebuild full game state on load, a four-slot inventory with stat effects, score and reputation systems, a global analytics page with leaderboards, and six accessibility features. The story itself is driven by JSON files, which kept the branching narrative clean.

What I learned

How much of a “simple” game is actually database design
Security is a feature: hashing, session expiry, and injection testing were built in, not bolted on
Keeping six people productive in one codebase takes real coordination

Challenges

Restoring a complete game state — session, allies, inventory, and logs — from a saved game without breaking anything

CompletedSelected work

Greenopoly — Monopoly, but it teaches climate change

A fully functional Monopoly-style game in C++ with a complete database, built by a six-person team to make climate education fun.

Project notes

Our second-year Software Engineering group project: a playable, database-backed Monopoly variant written in C++ where the mechanics carry a message about climate change. Building a rules-heavy board game with six people is an exercise in interfaces — between game systems, between the game and its database, and between teammates who all need to ship their part without breaking everyone else’s.

What I learned

Designing game rules as clean, testable systems rather than one giant loop
Agreeing interfaces early so six people can build in parallel

Challenges

Keeping a rules-heavy game fun while it carries an educational message

What I work on

Four areas, all backed by real work.

Not a wishlist — each one comes from something I’ve actually built or done.

Full-stack web development

From a Shopify storefront for a real shop to this hand-built Next.js site — I like owning the whole thing, front to back.

Databases & data-driven apps

Save systems, analytics pages, booking systems — most of my projects end up being database design in disguise.

Games with a purpose

ReignFall and Greenopoly taught me more about state, persistence, and teamwork than any tutorial could.

Hardware & robotics

Queen’s Robotics Club member. I’ve built PCs and tinker with Arduino and Raspberry Pi when a project needs to touch the real world.

Toolkit

Full skills breakdown

Comfortable: Java
C++
HTML & CSS
SQL
Git & GitHub
Visual Studio, VS Code & Eclipse
Team development
Testing
Learning: C#
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Next.js & React
Node.js
Shopify
MySQL & PostgreSQL
Linux
Secure coding basics
Data structures & algorithms

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A concise view of education, projects, and development.

A two-page overview of my education, projects, and skills — the same story as this site, in the format recruiters expect.

BSc Software Engineering with Placement, Queen’s University Belfast, 2024–2028
Four projects with their stack, team size, and what I built
Skills, experience, and clickable links to email, LinkedIn, GitHub, and this site

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What I’m up to.

Short notes on what I’m building, learning, and working towards.

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PersonalSeptember 2026

Where things stand this September

Still applying for a 2026–27 placement — which means I can start straight away.

Beyond code

Interests, experiments, and the personal details.

Software is only one part of the picture. This is the rest of it — the things that keep me curious away from the keyboard.

The personal side

Useful knowledge is better when it helps someone.

Useful skills should leave the building. These are the places my work has helped someone other than me.

Community work

Available now

Looking for a placement student who ships real things?

Available now for a 2026–27 industrial placement. If you’d like to talk — or want to see more of the work first — my inbox is open.

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