I design, code, and build things for the Internet & Mobile.
- years building digital platforms
- 15+
- apps delivered
- 70+
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Principal engineer leading mobile and web architecture for digital banking in the UAE. Where I am now, in full; earlier roles are folded into one line.
- CurrentPrincipal Engineer / Vice President
AI-driven engineering & platform leadership
- Lead
- Mobile and web engineering for digital banking in a regulated environment, from strategy and architecture to delivery.
- Technical roadmaps and architecture governance across distributed web, mobile and full-stack teams.
- Build with AI
- Co-architected an agentic SDLC: GitHub Copilot and custom agents in spec-driven workflows.
- Less manual boilerplate, and security compliance checked automatically before every deployment.
- Modernise
- Legacy mobile and web apps moving onto one React Native architecture: faster releases, less technical debt.
- End-to-end mobile release pipelines, automated with GitHub Actions.
- Empower engineers
- A custom CLI suite, VS Code extensions, shared design systems and reusable component libraries.
- Ship
- AI assistant, payments, onboarding, MFA and employee platforms.
- SDKs for facial recognition, OCR, live chat, fraud detection and national ID verification.
- Before thatTech Lead & Engineer
Tech lead, senior engineer, mobile developer
Offshore delivery for a global entertainment brand's mobile apps, features for a major US telecom's iOS and Android app, native apps for media and enterprise clients, and first mobile and web builds for small businesses. B.Tech in Information Technology.
Stack
Skills
Agentic AI engineering, React Native, native iOS and Android, and the web platforms behind them. Based in Dubai, working across the UAE and the GCC.
- 01
Agentic AI engineering
- Agentic SDLC
- AI agents & MCP
- LLM apps & RAG
- Forward deployed engineering (FDE)
- Spec-driven development
- GitHub Copilot & Claude
- 02
Mobile
- React Native
- iOS · Swift
- Android
- Mobile security (OWASP MASVS)
- 03
Web & platform
- JavaScript & TypeScript
- React & Next.js
- Micro-frontends
- Node.js & BFF
- Spring Boot microservices
- 04
Delivery & leadership
- Release automation
- Developer experience
- Architecture governance
- Team leadership
Signal · Updated 5 Nov
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- TechCrunch · 5 NovMeta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
- The Verge · 5 NovGemini for Home now plugs into AT&T’s smart security system
- MIT Tech Review · 4 NovTexas was the new epicenter of the AI data center buildout. That might be kaput.
- The Verge · 4 NovNothing teases a screen-free AI device ahead of launch next month
- The Verge · 4 NovChatGPT will now make you animated GIFs
- Hugging Face · 4 NovDharma Field Extractor: Any Document In, Structured Fields in JSON Out
- The Verge · 4 NovUber only fulfilled 4 rides from AI agents last quarter
- OpenAI · 4 NovOpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc.
- MIT Tech Review · 4 NovSecuring the agentic enterprise with data lineage
- OpenAI · 4 NovA thousand fewer paths to root
- OpenAI · 4 NovDaybreak Red is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
- OpenAI · 4 NovIntroducing Images 2.6
- Hugging Face · 3 NovStateBench: Testing how language models track state changes over long documents
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Off the clock
When I'm not shipping
- Coffee first, code second.
- Father of two.
- Farmer at heart, happiest with my hands in the soil.