Software engineer from Sana'a

Dawood Saleh

I build MCP servers that connect AI to real data, and websites with proper Arabic support.

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paper-search-mcp.engdawood.com

Request sent

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "search_papers",
    "arguments": {
      "query": "Arabic natural language processing",
      "sources": [
        "arxiv",
        "pubmed",
        "crossref",
        "europepmc",
        "openalex",
        "openreview"
      ],
      "max_results_per_source": 3
    }
  }
}

Sources and response times

  • crossref884 ms3
  • openreview1084 ms3
  • openalex1261 ms3
  • pubmed1264 ms3
  • europepmc1518 ms3
  • arxiv25000 ms0

Results

  1. Stemming techniques for resource-poor languages: a review of methods, challenges, and applications.Sanjiban Sekhar Roy, Mohd Anas, Saravanakumar Kandasamy · 2026pubmed
  2. Natural Language Processing for Dialectical Arabic: A SurveyAbdulhadi Shoufan, Sumaya Alameri · 2015crossref
  3. Editorial: Emerging techniques in Arabic natural language processing.Abudalfa S, Saad M, El-Beltagy S · 2025europepmc
  4. Arabic Natural Language ProcessingAli Farghaly, Khaled F. Shaalan · 2009openalex
  5. Enhancing semantic question similarity in Arabic using hybrid models and knowledge graph alignment.Ammar Al-Edhari, Mohsen Kahani · 2026pubmed
  6. Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop · 2019crossref

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Projects

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Experience

  1. 2023 - now

    Software Engineer Self-Employed

    Open-sourced 4 MCP servers (Arabic Scholar, Paper Search, Storyset, Mistral OCR) that give AI agents access to 4M+ Arabic research records, 18 academic sources, illustrations and document OCR.

  2. 2022 - 2023

    Teaching Assistant Hajjah University

    Taught Object-Oriented Programming (Java) to 60+ undergraduate students (2nd and 3rd year).

  3. 2020 - now

    Academic Research Writer & Presentation Designer Freelance

    Wrote and edited research papers in machine learning, data analysis and cybersecurity.

  4. 2020 - now

    Online Private Tutor Saudi & Yemeni Students

    Ran daily online tutoring sessions for groups of 10-15 students in Computer Science, Mathematics, English and Physics, following the Saudi curriculum.

  5. 2021

    Field Surveyor Moore Yemen

    Performed field surveys and data collection for audit and advisory services.

  6. 2018 - 2019

    Remittance Teller Al Tayseer Exchange & Transfer

    Handled currency exchange, money transfers and daily cash operations.

  7. 2016 - 2020

    B.Sc. Computer Science with Honors, Hajjah University

Technologies I use

AI

  • MCP
  • MCP TypeScript SDK
  • Cloudflare Agents SDK
  • Workers AI
  • Mistral AI
  • Claude Code

Frontend

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Astro
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Vite
  • MapLibre GL
  • RTL & i18n

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Hono
  • grammY
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Durable Objects
  • Workflows
  • Python

Data & DevOps

  • D1 / SQLite
  • KV
  • R2
  • Queues
  • PostgreSQL
  • GitHub Actions
  • npm

Let's work together.

Open to remote work or relocation, on contract or full time.

Email me

eng.dawoodsaleh@gmail.com