jaafarabazid
@jaafarabazid
Jaafar Abazid
Founder, ManTek Technologies · WordPress + AWS at scale for Arabic newsrooms
About
Founder of ManTek Technologies (Dubai). I build full-stack WordPress and AWS systems for Arabic newsrooms and high-traffic publishers, and write about the internals, cloud architec... Show more
Top Skills
AWS
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Cloud Architecture
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DevOps
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Web Performance
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Scalability
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WordPress
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Technical Writing
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PHP
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SEO
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Web Security
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MySQL
Experience
Founder
ManTek Technologies
Feb 2025 - PresentFull-stack WordPress and AWS engineering for Arabic newsrooms and high-traffic publishers: development, multi-platform hosting and deployment, domains, DNS and email, security and maintenance, with WordPress + AWS as the specialist tier. Currently building NUZ, a cloud-native publishing platform.
Education
Damascus University
Good, IT Engineering, Department of AI
2000 - 2007Projects
wp-arabic-slug-schema-guard
Visit Project open_in_new Jun 2026 - Jul 2026Open-source WordPress must-use plugin that stops core database updates from silently truncating long Arabic (and other non-Latin) URLs. Layered prevention across the schema, slug generation, and collision handling, with a self-testing drift guard and a WP-CLI verifier. GPL-2.0, published on Packagist.
mantek.io
Visit Project open_in_new Mar 2026 - PresentManTek's bilingual (English and Arabic, RTL) company site: static Astro and Tailwind, deployed on Cloudflare Pages, with an MDX Insights blog, dual-language RSS, and a Git-based CMS.
NUZ
Visit Project open_in_new Mar 2022 - PresentA cloud-native publishing platform for high-traffic newsrooms and publishers. ManTek's flagship product, in active development.
Language & Tools
WordPress, PHP, AWS (S3, CloudFront, Lambda, SES), MySQL, Cloudflare, Astro, JavaScript, Nginx, Linux
Currently Exploring
Building NUZ, a cloud-native publishing platform. Pushing more of the media stack to the edge (Cloudflare Workers and R2).
Achievements
Kept a leading pan-Arab newsroom online through 20x traffic spikes on WordPress + AWS, load-tested to 50k concurrent, 100% uptime across five years. Shipped wp-arabic-slug-schema-guard, an open-source fix for a WordPress core bug that silently truncates Arabic URLs.
Fun Fact
"ManTek" is a triple pun: human + technology, and it sounds like منطق (mantiq), Arabic for "logic". The logo is that Arabic word drawn as a brain.
Random Dev Quote
A guard on a hook that never fires is just a comment.
Contributions
Articles
- The 404 that wasn't: when a check can't see what you're asking itAug 05, 2026
- Arabic search in WordPress: the matches it silently missesJul 24, 2026
- WordPress cron behind a load balancer: fixing 'Missed schedule'Jul 22, 2026
- Your WordPress says the email sent. It didn't.Jul 18, 2026
- The day YouTube deleted our channelJul 10, 2026
Comments
- The layer distinction lands, and the trust-signal point especially.
O...Aug 17, 2026
- Yes @[Emder], and faster than I would have liked.
The rule is one lin...Aug 07, 2026
- Thanks, @[Gift Balogun], this is spot on. "Observable, not fire-and-fo...Jul 19, 2026
- @[juhist] About 2 weeks of back-and-forth with YouTube to get the chan...Jul 12, 2026
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