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Mohammad Abu Aboud

I'm a software engineer. I started in 2012 by writing a bot for a game I was playing too much, and haven't stopped since.

After that came a few years of competitive programming, including two ICPC World Finals. It's still how I approach a problem.

Along the way I worked at Google, in Dublin and then Munich, and at Amazon in Amman.

These days I work on Activepieces, an open-source automation tool.

I'm married, and my daughter was born in 2025.

Writing

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Occasional notes on software, building, and the rest.

AI Made Us Worse at Finishing

Sep 23, 20264 min

A proof of concept that ships is permanent. It never gets finished, because finishing is never on the roadmap and there's always a next thing.

Subtraction · part 3

You Have to Give to Take

Sep 22, 20264 min

Every feature you ship costs you something, usually speed. The problem is that nobody ever writes the price down, so you end up paying it without ever deciding to.

Subtraction · part 2

Keeping Everything Is a Decision

Sep 21, 20263 min

Nobody's blocking the merge. That's usually the problem, not the good news.

Subtraction · part 1

Voyages

The long version

The short route from a game bot to whatever this is now.

2012
RuneScape Bot
Liquid Automation · First real code
2015
Competitive Programming
Princess Sumaya University for Technology
2018
ICPC World Finals · Beijing
Represented PSUT internationally
2019
Google · Dublin
SRE Intern
2020
ICPC World Finals · Moscow
Second world finals appearance
2020
Amazon · Amman
Software Development Engineer
2021
Google · Munich
Software Engineer III · Google ChromeOS
2022
Activepieces
Co-founder & CTO · YC S22
2025
Fatherhood
Born June 2025

Graveyard

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Side projects I tinker with for fun. No roadmap, no users to please.

Craftspace

2026

One company brain for every coding agent. The pages, skills and decisions a team keeps rewriting in Slack threads, written once and served to Claude Code, Cursor and the rest over MCP. Still running on my own box, with the data it died holding.

CraftBlocks

2026

Code-first AI automation. An agent companion writes any integration as TypeScript. No connector catalog, no ceiling to imagination. The agent ships.

Oktaman

2026

A local-first, AI-powered command center. One place to manage your life, automate tasks, and get things done from your own machine.