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End-to-end SaaS surfaces — onboarding, dashboards, billing — built around the workflows your users actually run.
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A SaaS Studio · Est. 2024
Building digital
systems that turn
complex ideas into
structured, scalable
products.
We design and engineer software where strategy, interface and infrastructure are one continuous decision.
SCROLL
01 / WHAT WE DO
Three disciplines, one practice. We ship the whole system.
02
▣
Data-driven systems
Pipelines, schemas and APIs designed for the long arc — performant today, legible to the team a year from now.
03
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Scalable backend + clean interfaces
Infrastructure that disappears under the product. Interfaces that treat clarity as a feature.
02 / APPROACH
A way of thinking, not a stack of services.
- ↳ 01→
Structured thinking.
Every product is a hypothesis tree. We map it before we render it. Decisions get traceable, scope gets honest, debt stays small.
- ↳ 02→
Performance-first execution.
Speed is a UX layer. We measure cold-start, time-to-meaningful-data, and bundle weight as design constraints, not afterthoughts.
- ↳ 03→
Clean, minimal design.
Density and calm in the same frame. We strip the surface until only what informs the next action remains visible.
03 / SELECTED WORK
Currently shipping.
A digital initiative transforming Egyptian cultural heritage into structured, explorable systems — E-Cards archive and a 200,000+ point map of Old Cairo.
A WEBSIGHTS INITIATIVE · CAIRO · 2024 →
Heritage
Egypt.
A digital initiative focused on transforming cultural heritage into structured, explorable systems — archives, maps, and interfaces that let history be navigated, not just preserved.
— ARCHIVE / ATLAS / RECORD —
𓋹
EST. ANNO MMXXIV/ 01 — SUBSECTION
A digital archive of historical visuals, organized into a searchable, structured system.
↳ E-CARDS PLATFORM
Browse the archive as a living catalogue.
FEAT_01
Browse historical content effortlessly
Card-based navigation that prioritises imagery and provenance — every record reads like an object, not a row.
FEAT_02
Filter and explore collections
Multi-axis filters: era, dynasty, region, medium, custodian. Built for researchers, openable by anyone.
FEAT_03
Manage and update content through a clean system
A curator-facing CMS with structured fields, version history, and bilingual rendering — as careful with metadata as with the artefact.
FEAT_04
Built for scholars, opened to the public
Citable URLs, machine-readable schemas, and a reading mode that respects the source.
E-CARDS · GRID PREVIEW
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/ 02 — SUBSECTION
A large-scale digital map that turns Old Cairo into an interactive city.
↳ OLD CAIRO INTERACTIVE MAP
Walk the city, through data.
FEAT_01
Explore thousands of locations visually
Mosques, sabils, gates, courtyards — surfaced as clickable points, each with a record card and a real coordinate.
FEAT_02
Navigate the city through structured data
PostGIS under the hood — queries by neighbourhood, by century, by typology. Pan, zoom, filter, link.
FEAT_03
Interact with heritage in a modern way
Bilingual labels, audio walks, route planning, and exportable itineraries — the city as a product surface.
FEAT_04
Open data, open API
A public dataset researchers and developers can build on top of — schemas first, surfaces second.
OLD CAIRO · MAP PREVIEW
200,000+
Mapped locations · Old Cairo dataset
PHOTOGRAMMETRY · LIVE FEED
RAFEEK · STUDIO 03 / 04
CAM_01F/2.8ISO_400
// 03 — SPATIAL CAPTURE
3D
Reconstruction.
Transforming real-world environments into digital 3D experiences. Photogrammetry, point clouds, and meshes — captured, rebuilt, and prepared for immersive use.
▸ View Qubbah el Kholafaa on Sketchfab/ WHAT IT DOES
From physical site to digital twin, in three passes.
STEP_01
Captures physical spaces
Hundreds to thousands of overlapping images and laser sweeps, gathered on-site to preserve geometry, texture and material response.
STEP_02
Rebuilds them digitally
A point cloud is solved into a mesh; the mesh is retopologized; PBR maps are baked. The site exists, twice.
STEP_03
Prepares them for immersive use
Optimized for WebGL, AR, VR, and game engines — without losing the fidelity that made the original worth preserving.
/ FOCUS
Three things we don't compromise on.
▲ Accuracy▲ Clean output▲ Real-world representation
/ FIELD CAPTURES
Selected reconstructions.
QUBBAH_EL_KHOLAFAA · 01
DETAIL · 02
FACADE · 03
INTERIOR · 04
/ OUTCOME
Creates digital assets that extend physical spaces into new formats — archive, learn, build inside them.
⌘ A FOLIO OF AWARDS & PRESS · 2024 — 2026
Recognition.
A small archive of moments where the work was named, ranked, broadcast, or sent forward — kept here in the manner of a passport: a record of where it has travelled.
FOLIO
OF AWARDS
OF AWARDS
RAFEEK GHALY · 2026
𓋹 𓎟 𓊪 𓏏 𓇯
/ 01 — FIRST PLACE
GEM Hackathon
· Team HACK100.
GRAND EGYPTIAN MUSEUM · MMXXV
GEM E-Passport — turning every visit into a two-way conversation.
★1st Place · GEM Hackathon 2025
Museums shouldn't be a one-way experience. The brief: how can GEM turn every visitor interaction into both a memorable journey and actionable insight?
We shipped a Progressive Web App — visitors scan artefact QR codes, collect digital stamps, redeem loyalty points, and export their visit as a printable passport at the gift shop.
Behind the scenes: a feedback dashboard that aggregates scans + responses so curators can see what's resonating, where engagement drops, and reply through the same channel.
Selected for further development inside an incubation programme alongside the museum's internal teams.
5
Stamps · prototype
3
Halls covered
PWA
Offline-friendly
/ 02 — TOP 10 NATIONAL FINALIST
Red Bull Basement
Egypt · Food Save Circle.
RED BULL BASEMENT · CAIRO · 2024
Routing surplus food to students, before it becomes waste.
✦Top 10 · National Final
Food Save Circle — a startup founded by Rafeek Ehab — works to reduce food waste in universities by involving food partners and students, sorting unsold food at the end of the day and offering it for a discounted price.
Selected from a national field, the project earned a place in the Red Bull Basement Egypt finals showcase — competing for a chance to represent Egypt in San Francisco.
10 startups competed in the Red Bull Basement National Final — Food Save Circle stood among them.
TOP 10
NATIONAL
FINAL
NATIONAL
FINAL
/ 03 — TELEVISION & PRESS
On air — talking about
the things that matter.
AL SHAMS TV · NILE CULTURE TV · 2025
Discussing technology, heritage, and what comes next.
📺Two Television Appearances
Recently had the chance to appear on television and discuss topics I genuinely care about — the intersection of AI, engineering and Egyptian heritage, and what young builders can do with all three.
Thankful to Al Shams TV for hosting me on “بالAI” and to Nile Culture TV for “نورت مصر”.
Looking forward to where these discussions lead next.
/ 04 — THIRD PLACE
14th Research Day
· Team Deviants.
TCCD · CAREER CENTER · 2025
Statistical Analysis of Anomaly Detection in IoT Networks.
🥉3rd Place · 14th Research Day
Honored to share that our team Deviants won 3rd place at the 14th Research Day organized by TCCD – Career Center.
Our project — “Statistical Analysis of Anomaly Detection in IoT Networks”— was a really fun challenge. From turning an idea into a working demo to presenting it to a wider audience, I'm grateful for how much I learned through the process and proud of what we achieved together.
Idea → demo → stage. The whole arc, in one term.
▲ IoT Networks▲ Anomaly Detection▲ Statistical Analysis▲ Demo Built
Gift from Egypt
to the world.
The work continues — open archives, structured maps, careful interfaces, and the occasional appearance on someone else's stage.
CAIRO · 2025
SOFTWARE · ENGINEER
BUILDER · EXPLORER
EST. 2024
BUILDER · EXPLORER
EST. 2024
A LITTLE ABOUT THE PERSON BEHIND THE WORK
Rafeek
Ghaly.
Software EngineerBuilderExplorer
/ STATEMENT
— A short noteI'm not just a computer engineer.
I'm someone who is constantly exploring — new ideas, new tools, and new fields.
I believe learning shouldn't be limited to one path. The more you explore, the more you understand how things connect.
I enjoy building, but I also enjoy understanding — and sharing that knowledge with others.
For me, this is a long journey. And I intend to make the most of it.
/ CONTACT
Open to conversations, collaborations, and good questions.
- ↳ 01LINKEDINRafeek Elamir →→
- ↳ 02INSTAGRAM@websights.dev →→
- ↳ 03EMAILrafeekghaly1@gmail.com →→