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Jalel Dridi

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Mohamed Jalel Dridi

Founding Engineer. Full-stack TypeScript, payments and reliability.

I build the parts of a product where money, reliability and trust meet. As founding engineer at Potluck, a US live-shopping marketplace, I own the Stripe Connect payments stack and the production infrastructure, and I built the realtime messaging system and the live-shopping product end to end.

  • About two years' experience
  • Fully remote with US teams since January 2026
  • English C2 · French C1 · Arabic native
  • Bizerte, Tunisia · UTC+1
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Try it

Break my pipeline

A small model of Payout Ledger, my open-source payout monitor. Send it the webhooks that break payment systems.

  1. Webhook
  2. Inbox
  3. Ledger

Press a button to send the pipeline a webhook.

Stored
0
Applied
0
Owed to seller
$0.00
Open the real demo
messages a weekSpyder
14,000+
delivery reliabilitySpyder
99.99%
realtime latencyPotluck messaging
~750 ms
automated testsPayout Ledger
99

Open-source project

Payout Ledger: an open-source payout monitor for marketplaces

Webhooks from a payment provider arrive twice, out of order, or not at all. Payout Ledger ingests them idempotently, records every money movement in a double-entry ledger that cannot go negative, reconciles against the provider, and alerts on failed or stuck payouts.

payout-ledger-gamma.vercel.app

A dropped webhook is sent, the checks run, and reconciliation flags the payout the ledger has fallen behind on.

  • Correct under concurrency

    25 payouts race for a balance that covers 10. Exactly 10 go through.

  • Order does not matter

    Property-based tests deliver events in random orders. The end state is always the same.

  • Enforced by the database

    Unbalanced transactions, overdrafts and edits to ledger rows are rejected by Postgres itself.

  • Decisions written down

    Eight design records with the options considered and the trade-offs.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Prisma
  • Playwright
Try the live demo Read the code Design decisions

Work

Things I have built and shipped

Most of this lives in private company repositories, so each one has a short case study: why it existed, what I built and what came of it.

  • Open source · 2026

    tnpay

    Typed SDKs for Tunisia's payment gateways, with webhook handlers that verify before they act.

    • TypeScript
    • Node.js
    • Vitest
    • fast-check
    Visit
  • A Deal Grader report: a score of 77 out of 100 labelled Strong Exit, a score breakdown, price against the market, and nearby off-market deals

    Offa.com · 2026

    Deal Grader

    A public tool that scores any US real-estate deal in about 30 seconds.

    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Node.js
    • Google Places API
    Visit

  • Potluck · 2026

    Potluck LIVE

    The company's live-shopping product, built end to end: sign-up, tokens, shows and giveaways.

    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • PostgreSQL
    • Playwright
    Visit
  • Potluck's How it works page, with four steps for customers and four for chefs

    Potluck · 2026

    Payments on Stripe Connect

    Checkout, transfers, payouts, webhooks and reconciliation for a two-sided marketplace.

    • Stripe Connect
    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • PostgreSQL
    Visit
  • A kitchen page on Potluck with Follow and Message buttons and a menu

    Potluck · 2026

    Realtime messaging

    Buyer and seller chat with about 750 ms latency and read-only clients.

    • PostgreSQL
    • Firebase Realtime Database
    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    Visit

  • Offa.com · 2026

    Spyder

    A multi-provider SMS and email platform sending 14,000+ messages a week.

    • NestJS
    • Prisma
    • PostgreSQL
    • React
    Visit

  • Pearls Consulting · 2025

    Field-inspection platform

    A web and mobile inspection platform, deployed to Kubernetes through GitLab CI/CD.

    • Laravel
    • React
    • React Native
    • Kubernetes

  • ESPRIT · team project · 2024

    Event Orchestrator

    An event-management platform built as Spring Boot microservices with Kafka and Kubernetes.

    • Spring Boot
    • Angular
    • Kafka
    • Docker
    Visit

Writing

Decisions, explained

Short pieces on choices I made in Payout Ledger: the options, the one I took and what it costs.

Skills

The stack I work in

TypeScript end to end, PostgreSQL underneath, and the infrastructure to ship it.

  • Languages

    TypeScript · JavaScript · PHP · Python · Java

  • Backend

    Node.js · NestJS · Prisma · PostgreSQL · Redis · WebSockets · Laravel

  • Frontend

    React · Next.js · React Native · Tailwind CSS

  • Payments

    Stripe · Stripe Connect · Webhooks · Reconciliation

  • Cloud and DevOps

    AWS · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · GitHub Actions · GitLab CI/CD

  • Quality

    Playwright · Vitest · Sentry · Prometheus · Grafana

About

From keeping servers up to moving money

Mohamed Jalel Dridi, smiling, in a navy suit and glasses
Based in
Bizerte, on Tunisia's north coast
Working
Fully remote with US teams since January 2026
Speaks
Arabic, English and French
Studied
IT architecture and cloud computing, ESPRIT

I started on the infrastructure side. After two years of preparatory classes at IPEI El Manar I studied IT architecture and cloud computing at ESPRIT in Tunis, and my first paid work was at Pearls Consulting: deploying Laravel applications, automating releases, then building a field-inspection platform and the Kubernetes pipeline that shipped it.

In January 2026 I joined the team behind Offa.com, a US real-estate marketplace, and moved from running software to building products: first Deal Grader, then Spyder. In June I followed the same founding team to Potluck as its founding engineer, and took on the part with the least room for error: the payments.

The infrastructure habit stayed. I ask what happens when a webhook is late, a deploy stops halfway or two requests race for one balance, and I would rather have the database refuse a wrong state than trust every caller to avoid it. Payout Ledger is that habit, written down in public.

  • Bizerte--:--

  • New York--:--

  • Chicago--:--

  • San Francisco--:--

The time right now at home and across the United States.

Experience

Where I have worked

  1. Jun 2026 – present

    Founding Engineer · Potluck

    US live-shopping marketplace · fully remote

    Own the Stripe Connect payments stack and production infrastructure. Built the live-shopping product and realtime messaging. Lead releases for a three-person team.

  2. Jan 2026 – Jun 2026

    Software Engineer · Offa.com

    US real-estate marketplace · fully remote

    Built and launched Deal Grader and Spyder, a multi-provider messaging platform. Replaced polling with WebSocket notifications.

  3. Feb 2025 – Aug 2025

    Software Engineer, end-of-studies internship · Pearls Consulting

    Tunis

    Built a field-inspection platform in Laravel, React and React Native, with CI/CD to Kubernetes and Terraform.

  4. Jul 2024 – Jan 2025

    DevOps & Web Consultant, part-time · Pearls Consulting

    Tunis · alongside studies

    Laravel deployments with 30% better uptime; CI/CD automation that cut manual deploys by 60%.

Engineering degree in Computer Science (IT Architecture & Cloud Computing), ESPRIT, Tunis, 2025.

Leadership

Leading outside of code

Since 2022 I have helped run the El Alia chapter of JCI, Junior Chamber International, a worldwide network of young people who organise projects in their own towns. This year I am its president.

JCI El Alia

Local chapter of Junior Chamber International · Bizerte, Tunisia

  1. 2022Secretary General
  2. 2024Vice-President
  3. 2026President

It is the same job as leading releases at Potluck: agree a plan, split the work, keep people informed and make sure it ships.

JCI El Alia on Facebook

The chapter in 2026

  • A career event, Unlock Your Career
  • A three-day train-the-trainers course
  • The Coupe El Alia football tournament
  • A forum on creativity and branding

Also

Marketing Manager · Inceptum Junior Enterprise, ESPRIT

Contact

Hiring for payments or full-stack TypeScript?

I am open to remote roles. Email is the quickest way to reach me.

med.jalel.dridi@gmail.com Download CV LinkedIn GitHub