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Youssef Hamdan
العربية
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Healthcare professional network

LILVA

As CTO, I led the build of LILVA with the Admix Lab team: a career network where doctors, nurses and pharmacists in the UAE keep a professional profile, follow peers, apply for jobs and request license transfers, in English or Arabic. One Next.js API serves the mobile app, lilva.ae, the employer portal and the admin console.

lilva.aeLILVA for EmployersApp StoreGoogle Play
Client
LILVA Corporate Services Provider L.L.C
Year
2026
Role
CTO and lead engineer
Status
Live
Platforms
Website, Mobile app, Employers portal, Admin console
lilva.ae home page with the headline "Your Healthcare Career in One Network", Get the App and For Employers buttons, and sample profile-view, connection and job-match cards
License Transfer request on a phone, step 1 of 4: name, email, phone and nationality fields

Healthcare professionals. lilva.ae introduces the network and hosts the public license-transfer request form. Signed-in members use the feed, network, messages and jobs on the web.

  • v1.5.0 live on the App Store and Google Play; first iOS release 26 March 2026
  • Five apps in one monorepo: mobile, web, employer portal, admin console and the API that serves them
  • 219 API routes, 71 data models, about 117,000 lines of TypeScript
  • English and Arabic on every surface, with full right-to-left layouts

Challenge

LILVA wanted one place where healthcare professionals in the UAE could keep a professional profile, follow peers, find work and handle licensing paperwork, such as moving a license between health authorities, in English or Arabic.

Its first version, built in March 2026, was something else: a healthcare festival and marketplace system (tickets, booths, QR check-in, products) spread across separate admin, partner and mobile codebases. Within weeks it had to become a professional network on iOS, Android and the web, with paid tools for employers to follow, and it could never hold patient data.

Approach

With the Admix Lab team, I merged v1 into one Turborepo monorepo. A single Next.js 16 API (219 route files, Prisma 7 on PostgreSQL, 71 models) serves the Expo app, lilva.ae, the employer portal and the admin console through shared db, auth, UI, API-client and types packages.

In April 2026 LILVA pivoted to a professional network. We built the feed, connections, messaging, profiles and jobs, licensing services run by the LILVA team, and a Premium tier that includes an Apple Wallet business card. Purchases are verified on the server through Stripe, the App Store Server API and the Google Play Developer API, and one entitlement resolver stops the three from overwriting each other.

Store rules shaped the build: subscription disclosures, official Apple and Google sign-in buttons, no external payment links on Android, a public delete-account page, and a Recruiter activation that hands off to the web without showing a price in the app. A release-readiness security audit and a hardening pass followed in September 2026.

Impact

LILVA 1.5.0 is live on the App Store (released 10 October 2026) and Google Play (updated 13 October 2026), and lilva.ae and the employer portal run on Vercel. Healthcare professionals build a profile, apply for jobs and request license transfers in the app, and use the feed, messages and jobs on lilva.ae.

Employers sign up with a verified email, activate a Recruiter plan, post jobs and move candidates from submitted to hired. The LILVA team verifies doctors, moderates the feed, reviews license-transfer documents and checks billing health from a bilingual console.

Release 1.5.0 passed typechecks on all five apps, production builds of the three web apps and iOS and Android exports, and the API unit suite reached 1,572 passing tests by 13 October 2026.

Healthcare professionals

Website

lilva.ae introduces the network and hosts the public license-transfer request form. Signed-in members use the feed, network, messages and jobs on the web.

  • A four-step license-transfer request form for moving a license between UAE health authorities
  • Member web app: feed, connections, messages, jobs, applications, license requests and Premium through Stripe Checkout
  • Public profiles at lilva.ae/@handle, which the QR code on each business card opens
  • One-time email codes for sign-up, accepted in Arabic-Indic digits too, with complete English and Arabic layouts
The lilva.ae home page in Arabic, with the whole layout mirrored right to left
The same home page in Arabic, mirrored right to left.
Healthcare Services page on a phone, opening with the License Transfer card
Healthcare Services on a phone: license transfer between MOH, DHA, DOH, SHA and other authorities.

Doctors, nurses and pharmacists

Mobile app

One Expo codebase ships the iOS and Android apps, with five tabs: Home, Network, Post, Jobs and Services. Version 1.5.0 is live on both stores.

  • A healthcare-only feed with comments, likes, saves and shares, plus connections and direct, group and support messaging
  • Jobs with type, emirate and salary filters, Easy Apply with the stored CV, saved jobs and an application tracker
  • A digital business card in four styles, with a QR code and an Apple Wallet pass
  • Premium through Apple and Google in-app billing, verified on the server, and a Recruiter Hub for company owners
Wide Google Play panel: the Services tab with License Transfer, Biometric Appointment and Doctors Network, beside the jobs list
Services and jobs side by side, from the Google Play tablet screenshots (demo data).
Wide Google Play panel: the professional feed beside the business-card designer
Feed and business-card designer, from the Google Play tablet screenshots (demo data).
Recruiter Hub on iOS for a demo organization: recruiter access active, a Manage on LILVA Partners link, and Post a job, My listings, Company profile and Team
iOS 1.5.0 in the simulator: the Recruiter Hub for a demo organization, with no price in the app.
My Profile on iOS for a test account: a profile-completion checklist and the Digital Business Card entry
iOS 1.5.0 in the simulator: the profile-completion checklist (test account).

Recruiters at clinics and hospitals

Employers portal

partners.lilva.ae is where clinics and hospitals open a recruiter account, take a Recruiter plan, post jobs and move applicants through a hiring pipeline.

  • Three-step sign-up (details, emailed code, password), then onboarding and team invitations
  • Recruiter plan through Stripe Checkout and the customer portal; job posts stay visible only while the plan is active
  • Applicant pipeline from submitted to hired or rejected, talent search by profession and experience, and funnel analytics
  • A one-time sign-in link, valid for 120 seconds, takes a recruiter from the app to the portal with no price shown in the app
Employer portal analytics: applicant totals and a recruiting funnel split into new, reviewed, hired and rejected
Recruiting funnel for a demo organization.Data anonymized
LILVA for Employers landing page with the headline "Hire healthcare talent in the UAE", Get Started and Employer Login buttons, and sample hiring cards
The public employer landing page.
The employer landing page in Arabic, mirrored right to left
The same page in Arabic.
Create your recruiter account, step 1 of 3 (your details, verify email, secure account), beside a brand panel listing what employers get
Recruiter sign-up, step 1 of 3: details, emailed code, password.

LILVA operations team

Admin console

The LILVA team runs the network from here: verifying doctors, moderating the feed, working through licensing requests and checking billing, in English or Arabic.

  • 19 sections, from members, doctor verification and companies to feed moderation, reports and jobs
  • License-transfer review with signed links to each uploaded document
  • Subscriptions with a Stripe billing-health check and a resync action, plus an affiliate commission ledger
  • Scheduled bilingual push broadcasts with audience targeting, super-admin role control and audit-logged admin actions
The admin overview in Arabic, with the sidebar on the right
The same overview in Arabic. Counts are scrambled.Data anonymized
Doctors list with specialty, verification status and Verify, Feature and Hide actions on each profile
Doctor verification queue.Data anonymized
Users list with email, role, practice and status, and a Deactivate action for each member
Member management across the network.Data anonymized

Earlier version

v1 (March 2026)

LILVA first reached the App Store in March 2026 as a healthcare festival and marketplace app, with tickets, a shop and jobs. In April it became a professional network, and we took the festival features off the navigation without deleting their code.

  • v1: separate admin, partner and mobile codebases; its API (71 routes, 27 data models) lived inside the admin app
  • v2: one monorepo from 23 March 2026, with a dedicated API and shared TypeScript packages
  • Now: 219 API routes and 71 data models in one shared API
App Store screenshot of the v1 home screen in Arabic and English, with a demo festival event and shortcuts for tickets, marketplace, careers and festival
Festival-era v1 UI (March 2026): home screens in Arabic and English, with a demo event.
App Store screenshot of the v1 jobs list in Arabic, right to left, with job-type filters and featured jobs
Festival-era v1 UI (March 2026): the jobs list in Arabic.

Stack

  • TypeScript
  • Turborepo
  • Next.js 16
  • Expo SDK 54
  • React Native
  • Prisma 7
  • PostgreSQL (Supabase)
  • Upstash Redis
  • Cloudflare R2
  • Tailwind CSS v4
  • Vercel
  • EAS Build

Integrations

  • Stripe
  • App Store Server API
  • Google Play Billing
  • Apple Wallet
  • Kommo CRM
  • Expo push notifications
  • Resend
  • Sign in with Apple