Waleed Chayeb.

Archive

The old me

For anyone who wants to know how I got here. Two parts: the story, from Beirut and Aleppo to Damascus by way of Istanbul and Muscat, including what was closed and what stopped. Then the writing, everything published since 2019. None of it is erased.

The story

Five cities, eleven years

Beirut2015 to 2019

A computer-science student at the American University of Beirut, a web developer working with partners in Aleppo, and obsessed with the idea that the city could become a technology destination.

Company
Faseela Tech. Websites, e-commerce, and health apps.Closed 2023 after meeting its goals
Community
Web Developers of Aleppo, regular meetups for the city's developers.Ended
Community
Aleppo Book Club and the Monthly Book Grant, books for children in Aleppo about what interests them.Ended
Community
SyriaTech, a Syrian tech community.Ended
Company
Bluethroat, 2019. A distance-learning platform that reached more than 6,000 students.Merged into Sanarise 2023

IstanbulSince 2019

Founding Sanarise Intelligent Systems in Istanbul at the start of 2020, experiments in distance learning while the world was shut, and five years of Odoo for humanitarian organisations.

The Sanarise office in Istanbul, March 2023.
Company
Sanarise Türkiye, 2020. The network's first company, its first Odoo partnership, and the engineering hub.Active
Response
vTeacher, a remote-learning platform launched in weeks as a COVID response, March 2020.Ended
Sector
Pozitif Tek, the humanitarian-sector arm: UN-compliant systems and open-source core banking for microfinance.Folded into NGO Kit
Initiative
Human War Journal, documenting the stories of victims of conflict, with a group of volunteers, 2023.Never launched
Completed
Menalizer, QR Me, Umbraco Store, Council of People, Green Dolap, Sanarise Industrial.Their mission ended and they were closed

MuscatSince December 2025

Moving the network's centre to Muscat as a stable base for growth in the Gulf. The big Odoo years: multi-company groups, humanitarian organisations, and turning experience into products.

Headquarters
Sanarise Oman, December 2025, the network's HQ and commercial engine. Odoo systems for multi-company groups, with direct integrations to government systems.Active
Product
NGO Kit, five years of implementations with NGOs turned into a ready package.Active
Product
Real Estate Kit, packaged Odoo for real estate, first deployment in Saudi Arabia in 2026.Active
Education
Ibtikar Academy, an Arabic platform teaching programming, robotics, and AI to children and teenagers.No longer developed

DamascusSince mid-2025

The return after the liberation. The greater battle, the battle of building, and the idea that real reconstruction starts with infrastructure for people and for data.

Company
Sanarise Syria, January 2026. Security, communications, and infrastructure technology, Motorola partner.Active
Company
WorkLink, August 2025. Jobs and tenders, then Insights, Verify, and a free partner API.Active
Company
Levant Host, December 2025. Arabic hosting on European servers, and Levant Git, free Git hosting.Active
Free
Munaweb, the national app for on-duty pharmacies across every governorate.Active
Pilot
edi.sy, business-to-business electronic data interchange for Syria.Pilot

The writing

18 essays since 2019