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Product system
Fern
A platform that lets people across the company generate Web Verifier SDK-backed credential verification demos in a few prompts, without hand-coding or a separate deployment step.
Product Engineer
Al Abbas
Product engineer working across digital identity, developer tooling, and agentic AI product workflows.
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Selected work
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Trust tooling
VICAL Viewer
Trust tooling for ISO 18013-5 work: VICAL inspection, PEM certificate utilities, and Issuing Authority Certificate Authority validation.
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Developer education
MATTR Learn
Built React Native holder and verifier tutorials, iOS/Android sample apps, and a documentation chat experience that made the platform easier to learn and search.
Recent notes
Apr 25, 2026
Remote Development from an iPad
Using an iPad as the client for a personal Google Cloud development setup: Tailscale for daily access, separate operator and workspace machines, self-hosted Coder, app previews, and a tested fallback path.
Apr 13, 2026
Ideation and Execution Are Folding Into Each Other
Technical execution is still hard, but it is no longer the only real bottleneck. More and more, the edge is in seeing what should exist and carrying it through properly.
Apr 10, 2026
Command Lines and Model Context Protocol Servers
A finance app example of when scripts are enough, and when an agent needs a structured tool surface.