Dhia Ammar Available

Software Consultant / Founder of Dicody

Dhia Ammar

Building backends on Azure.

Senior engineering for founders and product teams who need a system owned end-to-end — architecture, code, infrastructure, deploys, on-call — without making a full-time hire.

Tunis, Tunisia · remote, worldwide

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What I do.

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Backend & API development

Node.js and TypeScript on Express, Python services, REST APIs, authentication, and third-party integrations.

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Azure cloud architecture

Functions, App Service, SQL, Cosmos DB, Storage, Key Vault, Managed Identity, and GitHub Actions CI/CD.

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Data pipelines & analytics

ETL from social and SaaS APIs, Azure Data Lake and Synapse, Power BI reporting, and sentiment analysis on unstructured text.

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Full-stack product development

React on the web, React Native via Expo, Figma-to-code design systems, and shipping through TestFlight and the Play Store.

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DevOps & deployment automation

GitHub Actions CI/CD, Azure deployment troubleshooting, multi-environment setups (staging/prod), Managed Identity and Key Vault auth, Docker, and zero-downtime release pipelines.

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AI integration & LLM features

Chatbots and agents with tool use (Mastra, OpenAI, Anthropic), observability via Helicone, prompt and cost optimisation, RAG and vector search on Cosmos DB, and batch summarisation pipelines.

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How I work.

Long engagements over churn. Most of my best work has come from staying with a system long enough to know it deeply — the seams, the edge cases, the things that aren't in the docs. My longest running client engagement spans multiple years and counting.

I'm comfortable owning a system end-to-end — architecture, code, infrastructure, deploys, and on-call — rather than hopping between specialised slices. That tends to be the right shape for founders and small teams who don't yet need a full engineering org.

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Selected work.

2024→ present

SaaS platform for a US-based content business

Lead engineer · Feb 2024–present

React Native mobile app on Expo, Express/TypeScript API on Azure, Python calculation microservices, AI chatbot with tool use and observability, Firebase Auth, Stripe billing. Owned end-to-end from architecture through production and on-call.

2021→ 2026

Social media analytics platform

Founding / lead engineer · 2021–2026

C#/.NET on Azure Functions extracting from Meta, LinkedIn, and YouTube Graph APIs into Azure Data Lake. Comment-level sentiment analysis at scale, with reporting through Synapse, SQL, and Power BI. Built the platform from zero, ran production, and managed deploys, infra, and freelancer reviews.

2026in development

Micro-SaaS in social analytics (in development)

Solo founder

Productising what I built at scale before — multi-platform social data extraction, comment sentiment, and analytics — into a self-serve product for marketers and small agencies.

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Tech I use day-to-day.

TypeScript Node.js Python C# / .NET React React Native · Expo Azure SQL Server GitHub Actions Firebase Docker Git
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Background.

Dhia Ammar

I've spent the last several years operating as a senior engineer across two long-running engagements — a social media analytics platform where I was the founding engineer for nearly five years, and a US SaaS product I've been building since early 2024. Both required owning real production systems, not just shipping features.

Today I run Dicody, a small software consultancy based in Tunisia, and work remotely with founders and product teams who need that same level of ownership without the cost or commitment of a senior in-house hire.

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Get in touch.