Technology leader
15+ years building high-performing engineering teams and products across startups, scale-ups, and public companies, from finding product-market fit to going public. Led multi-disciplinary squads of backend, frontend, testing, algorithms engineers, and data scientists.
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YC-backed Egyptian quick-commerce company delivering groceries in under 60 minutes. Raised $86M+ through Series B at a $400M valuation, scaling to 1,900+ employees.
Leading the Shopping and Growth engineering teams, setting technical strategy and building scalable systems for one of the region's fastest-growing delivery platforms. Drove architectural decisions that enabled the company to sustain hyper-growth while maintaining reliability.
YC W17 healthcare staffing marketplace valued at $1.3B (Sequoia-led Series C). Raised $90M+, serving 5,000+ facilities across 30+ US cities with 600+ employees.
Contributed to the core marketplace platform connecting healthcare professionals with facilities for on-demand shift work. Worked on backend systems that powered matching, scheduling, and real-time availability across a rapidly scaling two-sided marketplace.
Egyptian mass-transit tech company (NASDAQ: SWVL via SPAC IPO). Scaled from a regional ride-sharing startup to a global platform operating across 6 countries with 1,000+ employees.
Built and led an engineering organization of 70+ engineers and 5 Engineering Managers across 10 teams, guiding the company through its SPAC IPO on NASDAQ. Owned the technical strategy for the highest-impact systems — Search, Dynamic Pricing, Dynamic Routing, Supply Planning, Dispatcher, and ETA. Scaled the org 3x in 2 years while maintaining an eNPS of +25. Championed Swvl's first US patent filing, first published research paper, and multiple open-source projects.
Egyptian AI-powered martech startup with offices in Cairo and Dubai. Raised $1.7M in seed funding, reached profitability in 2017, and served Fortune 500 clients across 22 countries.
Led the backend engineering team building machine-learning-driven ad-tech products. Architected the core platform that powered automated programmatic advertising and audience targeting, bridging data science models with production-grade systems.
MIT Media Lab spinoff (2009) and one of the earliest leaders in Emotion AI, pioneering the space a decade before it became mainstream. Raised $53M+ over 10 rounds, acquired by Smart Eye (Nasdaq: SEYE) for $73.5M in 2021.
Built features for the web portal, RESTful API, and Android SDK for emotion-recognition products. Managed services across multiple AWS accounts and worked on data lake indexing using Presto, Hive, and Redshift, contributing to products used by 70% of the world's largest advertisers.
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