One of HandyPro’s projects was a bathroom accessibility renovation for a disabled veteran in North Bay Village. The project required careful planning around the client’s mobility needs and the fact that the home remained occupied throughout the work. After completion, the client provided HandyPro with a written recommendation.
“In projects like this, it is necessary to think carefully about the person’s movement, the height and placement of fixtures, support features, accessibility, and the risk of falling,” says Ahmed Elnozhy, founder and CEO of HandyPro. Get one wrong, and the renovation creates a new obstacle. A grab bar mounted a few inches too high, or a fixture that cannot be reached from a seated position, leaves the user working around a room that was supposed to help.
For Elnozhy, the project shows how he wants his company to work. The team studies the person and the cause of the problem first, and only then chooses the fix. He put that method together from three very different jobs.
The team studies the person and the cause of the problem first, and only then chooses the fix.
Medicine, barbershops, and cable lines
Elnozhy earned a medical degree from Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University in Ukraine and later completed supervised clinical training in internal medicine at Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Clinical Hospital from August 2020 through October 2022. “My medical education taught me discipline, systematic thinking, and the importance of correctly identifying the cause of a problem before attempting to solve it,” he says.
His first real work with buildings came through business. Elnozhy was a 40% co-owner and operations manager of ALS Barbershop, a seven-location chain in Ivano-Frankivsk, Kolomyia and Kyiv with approximately 32 employees at its peak. He oversaw day-to-day operations and coordinated renovations, furnishing, maintenance, and improvements across the locations. Running seven sites showed him how quickly a business suffers when premises are neglected or repairs are put off.
After moving to the United States, he worked as an independent (1099) cable technician for Koskom Cable Inc. on Comcast/Xfinity projects from approximately February through May 2024. The work took him into other people’s homes, and it came with strict training: ladder safety, drilling, protecting the customer’s property, documenting every job, and getting approval before touching a building’s structure.
Along the way, he kept seeing the same frustration among homeowners. Every small repair meant finding a new contractor, explaining the house’s history again, and hoping the work would hold. HandyPro, founded in South Florida with Boca Raton as a key service area, gives property owners one accountable point of contact for routine repairs, maintenance, project coordination, and follow-up. It now works across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties.
Finding where the water comes in
The cause-first habit is easiest to see on small jobs. One client called about a pergola that leaked every time it rained, sending water onto an expensive ornamental tree. In a house, the visible symptom and its source are often in different places, and treating the surface usually means the same call comes in again a few months later. A quick patch on the pergola roof would have looked finished for a few weeks. The team traced where the water was actually getting in, sealed that point, and applied a protective treatment.
The client, Double Ace Cargo, called back. HandyPro then coordinated further improvements, including a deck and outdoor kitchen project, and any work that required a trade license was completed by an appropriately licensed professional. “This project is particularly important to me because solving one problem correctly developed into a long-term customer relationship,” Elnozhy says. Since its launch, HandyPro has coordinated projects including pergolas, gates, fences, decks, outdoor terraces and summer kitchens.
In a house, the visible symptom and its source are often in different places, and treating the surface usually means the same call comes in again a few months later.
The rules of someone else’s house
His months in cable work left HandyPro with its house rules. Crews protect the property they work in, record each job, and change nothing in a building’s structure until the owner has approved it. A hole drilled into the wrong wall of someone’s home is hard to undo.
HandyPro handles general maintenance, repairs, and project coordination within its lawful scope. Work that requires a general contractor, plumbing, electrical or other professional license is performed through the appropriately licensed entity or a licensed trade partner. Arc Build Group is a separate company qualified by Joseph Celello, who holds a Florida General Contractor license (CGC1540835) and a Florida Plumbing Contractor license (CFC1434485). Ahmed Elnozhy does not personally hold either license.
Elnozhy’s role is operational: assessing client needs, defining project scope, coordinating qualified professionals, monitoring communication and documentation, and ensuring the client has a clear point of accountability.
A hole drilled into the wrong wall of someone’s home is hard to undo.
That approach shows up in who comes back. HandyPro works for private homeowners, restaurants, property management companies, logistics businesses, and homeowners’ associations. As of September 2026, it held a 4.9-star Google rating based on 119 reviews, and the company has also received recognition through Angi. Some of its clients have hired the company dozens of times.
