What I’ve actually worked on

Sep 2025 – present · Dubai & Sharjah

Seven businesses, one week at a time

My family’s group has been running since 2014 across food, beauty and wellness, interiors and construction — Khau Galli, House of Zaika, three Cutting Edge salons and a spa, DecoVibes and AANKA Contracting. Since September 2025 I’ve worked across it — mostly tracking and reporting the numbers, and increasingly the digital and brand side.

I’d rather be accurate about this than inflate it. I watch, I flag, I build the tools; I don’t run the floor. The part I’d keep is the breadth — being across seven businesses at once, you learn quickly which problems belong to one shop and which are the same everywhere. Both my parents are chartered accountants and both run the group, so the plan wasn’t mine to begin with. I just turned out to be good at executing it.

decovibesdubai.com · aankagroup.com · this site

Websites and brand work

I build and host the group’s sites, and support the brand and digital-presence work around them. Right now that means rebuilding DecoVibes as a dark, portfolio-led site, keeping aankagroup.com running, and this site. I work in Next.js with Claude Code, and read a lot more design than I write code.

The DecoVibes brief is the most interesting one: ten years of work and two hundred projects, with an in-house 7,000 sq ft joinery factory that most competitors don’t have — and none of it visible online, because the old site is down. It’s a dark, portfolio-led build — the work is luxury interiors, so the site should feel like walking into one, not like reading a brochure.

Across branches and delivery platforms

A thousand menu items, standardised

I reviewed and cleaned roughly 900–1,000 menu items across the restaurant branches and the delivery platforms, finding duplicates, pricing mismatches and availability gaps. Tedious, and the sort of thing that quietly breaks a business if nobody does it.

Delivery aggregators each hold their own copy of a menu, so the same dish drifts into three different prices and two different names without anyone deciding it should. The fix is not clever: list everything, compare it, agree one version, push it back out. The useful part was building the habit of checking rather than assuming.

Python · POS APIs · WhatsApp · QuickBooks

Nightly reporting, and an accounting prototype

Two things run on a schedule: a nightly sales report for the restaurants that pulls from the POS and posts the numbers to WhatsApp, and the same idea for the salons. Separately, I designed and tested a QuickBooks-focused workflow that reads invoices, allocates them to a branch, flags duplicates and adds review controls — a prototype, not a rollout.

The reports are the useful ones: they exist because people were asking the same question every morning. The accounting workflow is honestly still an experiment — it works on the cases I’ve tested and it is not running the books. I’d rather say that than oversell it.