About Me

As must be obvious from my home page, my name is Ahmed Baraka. My life has been spent so far in various Middle East countries. I was born in Kuwait, lived there for 16 years and then I moved in 1991 to Libya for the purpose of education. I completed the university education there and obtained BSc. degree on Computer Engineering in 1996.

I then worked in the government sector as an Oracle Developer for a couple of years. Also, I undertook a four-month course in Software Engineering in the Royal Scientific Society in Jordan. Then I worked in UAE in a few places mainly as Oracle DBA for about 9 years.

At the moment, I have just moved to Australia (Sydney) and look forward to pursuing my successful life there.

Beside the countries mentioned above, I have been to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia.

My father was fond of children. I have four brothers and three sisters. I know it is sometimes hard to live in a large family, but luckily in my case it has been interesting. Unfortunately my youngest brother who I loved so much is no longer with us.

I got married in UAE and was blessed with two so cute daughters  who I adore. We got our first Australian new baby boy on December 2010.

Although my work is all about computers (specialized on Oracle), I still prefer to spend my leisure time in front of my PC doing some web-design, reading from online resources or playing computer games. The outdoor activities I also enjoy are going to beach and soccer.

Another appealing subject to me is what I could name 'cultural communication'. Every community over the world has its values, customs, experience and standard of civilization. I believe we can learn a lot from studying other communities and mixing with people from other cultures. Thanks God I was born in this communications era, since the Internet provides a useful practical media to meet new people from over the world.