Hands-on engineer and technical lead. I design, build, and ship web platforms — from government services to AI products.
PwC Middle East
Progressed from Microsoft Dynamics developer to full-stack engineer, technical lead, architect, and engineering manager across major government and enterprise platforms in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. Still writes code; prefers hands-on ownership over sitting only on the commercial side.
Senior Manager · Lead Software Engineer
Owns U-Ask end-to-end: client relationship, technical team, QA, partner reporting, commercials, UATs, and follow-on proposals.
Manager · Engineering Manager
Architecture and delivery across Cognitive Proposal Builder, PIF Partner Hub, Qiddiya MSI, and another year on TAMM. Mentored engineers into tech leads.
Senior Associate · Senior Full-stack Engineer
Technical lead on TAMM. Remotely led teams of up to 13 across the UAE, Canada, Pakistan, and India through COVID.
Associate · Microsoft Dynamics Consultant
Founding member of the Microsoft practice. Owned Hexa’s customer portal and an internal proposal generator later reused as the basis for an AI proposal product.
Agentic WhatsApp channel for UAE government services. Took over mid-flight after leadership left; soft-launched the channel, migrated GPT-4o GPT-5.1, onboarded entities and services, and built the admin console for prompts, guardrails, and workflows.
Abu Dhabi’s unified government services platform. Owned the rule-based personalization engine; onboarded 200+ DMT/ITC services and 30 Department of Health facility-license services; shipped kiosk feedback UI used in 20 service centers.
AI-assisted proposal builder for a tech and digital company (client confidential). Built the demo that helped win the work, then owned technical conversations and key decisions through production delivery.
Partner portal for Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, including a craft.js form builder/renderer tightly coupled to Hexa on Dynamics and packagable for reuse.
Master systems integration architectures for food safety, QHSE, footfall analytics, smart park management, and material control — all five systems launched with the parks.
Sole owner of a production clinic app in Hsinchu: appointments, staff admin, PWA, and real-time queue numbers. ~250–500 appointments per month; ~5–6 years in production.
Household expense manager with shared envelopes, flexible multi-category budgets, and monthly/yearly visualizations — dogfooded daily.
Up until recently, I've been using my work laptop for a mix of both work and personal projects. Recently, however, as part of my company's restructuring and policy reviews, it beca…
Yes, exactly. What in the world is progressive enhancement?
A real-life example from Azure DevOps's Node.js API package that I recently had to endure:
New York University Abu Dhabi