Don't Be a Hero
6 min
Heroism is a painkiller you hand the company. It looks like a cure until the team can't function without it.
Mohammad Abu Aboud
Co-founder & CTO of Activepieces. Builder of tools that save people time.
I didn't set out to become a programmer. I set out to stop clicking. That was RuneScape, 2012.
Now I build Activepieces, an open-source automation platform for businesses. We went through Y Combinator in S22. Before that, Google in Munich and Amazon in Amman.
At home, I'm a husband and father.
GitHub
I love building things.
Writing
Stop Babysitting Your Agent
3 min
Long-running agents don't need micromanagement. They need a way to know when they're done.
Building a RuneScape Bot
5 min
How I reverse-engineered RuneScape's obfuscated client and built a bot framework that survived weekly updates.
Work
Software Engineer III, Google ChromeOS
Sep 2021 – Jun 2022 · Munich
Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Sep 2020 – Aug 2021 · Amman
Site Reliability Engineer Intern, Google
Jun 2019 – Sep 2019 · Dublin
Google Cloud persistent disks. Built internal debugging and monitoring tools in C++.
Projects
Side projects I tinker with for fun. No roadmap, no users to please. Just me, a terminal, and the pure joy of building something because I want to.
CraftBlocksNew
2026
Code-first AI automation. An agent companion writes any integration as TypeScript. No connector catalog, no ceiling to imagination. The agent ships.
2026
A local-first, AI-powered command center. One place to manage your life, automate tasks, and get things done from your own machine.
2019
An Arabic educational platform that builds computational and logical thinking through periodic competitions. Built to give Arabic-speaking students a place to sharpen problem-solving with the kind of problems I love and learnt from.
2012
Open-source RuneScape automation bot. Reverse-engineered obfuscated game code to simulate user input. The project that turned me from a player into a programmer.
Education
Y Combinator S22
BS Computer Science, Princess Sumaya University for Technology
2016 – 2020 · Amman
Graduated with distinction (86.4). Full-merit scholarship for representing the university in international competitions.