About me
I’m Zakaria 👋, a product engineering leader and ex-founder. These days, I work on travel tech at Overseas Network.
Before that, my two cofounders and I bootstrapped Gemography, a tech talent marketplace for late-stage startups in the US, UK, and Europe, to $1M ARR. Along the way, I built and led distributed engineering teams across three continents and got to work alongside some amazing people.
Earlier, at Hidden Founders, I helped non-technical founders at 10+ startups turn ideas into MVPs. Most failed, but one made it to Series B.
Experience & projects
Overseas Network
2025–presentEngineering · Travel technology.
Voxgig
2023–2025Product & engineering · SaaS, consulting, and open-source DevRel tools.
Gemography
2018–2023Technical founder · A recruiting platform serving 100,000+ developers.
Startup Patterns
2015–2018Mobile product · bite-sized startup lessons, featured on Product Hunt.
Hillo for Trello
2015–2018Mobile product · Trello activity tracking, featured on Product Hunt.
Hidden Founders
2015–2018Startup studio helping non-technical founders turn ideas into MVPs.
Qudos
2013A discovery community for developer tools.