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Technology & Delivery
Expertise
I build digital products and the teams that ship them. I built a technology department from zero, led AI-first engineering, and delivered projects across government, private and non-profit sectors.
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Portfolio 2026
Career path · 12 years, engineer to CTO
2009 – 2018
Developer · Slnee & Crealyse &..
Government portals and systems on .NET and SharePoint, for ministries, municipalities and authorities.
2019 – 2022
Full-Stack Developer · Confidential
Portals, ERP-based sites and university systems on Odoo, .NET and Oracle.
2023 – Present
Lead, then CTO · TrendDC
Built and lead the technology department: company products, client platforms and AI adoption.
01
Building teams
Built from zero
I built the technology department and its product team from scratch.
~30
People hired in total
90%
Employee retention
10%
Promoted to team leads in their specialty
17
Members in the latest team
Latest team, by role
3
Frontend developers
2
Backend developers
2
Mobile app developers
2
UI/UX designers
2
Product managers
2
QA engineers
Automation & manual
2
DevOps engineers
2
SEO specialists
How I build teams
- Designed cross-functional squads: product, design, engineering, QA, DevOps
- Set clear roles, ownership and onboarding
- Core/flexible team model: specialty heads hold core knowledge, a flexible layer scales with project load
- Wrote the team work policy and a 6-week department development plan with weekly reviews
- Grew engineers into specialty team leads
How I hire
- Wrote role profiles and hiring scorecards
- Ran technical assessments and structured interviews
- Hired about 30 people and kept 90% of them
- Built TrendJobs, the company's in-house hiring system
02
Project types & sectors
Project types
Websites
Institutional and corporate sites
Mobile Apps
Native iOS and Android
Platforms
SaaS and multi-user platforms
Systems
Information and back-office systems
Portals
Citizen and employee portals
Audits
SEO and UI/UX reviews
Sectors
Government Sector
48%
Private Sector
42%
Non-Profit Sector
10%
Citizen Portal
Government E-services
Institutional Website
Back-office
SEO & UI/UX Audit
Selected government clients
Digital Government Authority
Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property
Monsha'at (SME Authority)
Ministry of Communications and Information
General Authority of Media Regulation
King Salman Global Academy for Arabic
Saudipedia
Saudi Boxing Federation
Jouf University
Jazan Municipality
Facilities Security Force
Saudi Export Development Authority
03
Digital products & AI
Digital products
I took products from idea to launch and kept growing them after release.
15+
90%
are running well and meeting their business goals inside the company
SaaS platforms
Mobile applications
Information systems
API & integrations
Product lifecycle I run
Discovery→
UX & Design→
Build→
Launch→
Grow
Featured products
TrendX · Social opinion platform on iOS, Android and web. Split into social, survey and blog products; localized in 6 languages.
Newspaper platform & CMS · New site and editorial workflow for a major Saudi daily, plus a World Cup 2026 platform.
Internal products · Portal (project management), Jobs (hiring), Studio (inventory), Stock (Storage Media), AiReports, LMS.
Product skills
Vision documents
Feature prioritization
User stories & acceptance criteria
App store optimization
AI-first engineering
I led projects built end to end with AI agents: code, review, testing and documentation, with my team reviewing and owning the result.
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The value it added
Less time
Shorter build cycles from idea to working product.
Lower cost
Smaller teams deliver more, with lower development spend.
No SaaS dependency
In-house tools the company owns, instead of paying for SaaS licenses.
How I rolled it out
Windsurf→
Cursor→
CodeRabbit→
Claude Max
Structured tool trials, then a phased rollout with a 3-month performance evaluation.
04
Technologies & tools
Backend
.NET
Laravel
Node.js
Python
ASP
Frontend
React
Next.js
Angular
Astro
jQuery
TypeScript
HTML · CSS · JS
Mobile
Swift (iOS)
Kotlin (Android)
WebView
Enterprise & CMS
SharePoint
Odoo
Oracle ADF
WordPress
Drupal
Cloud & DevOps
AWS
Azure
DigitalOcean
Cloudflare
Docker
nginx · OpenLiteSpeed
GitHub Actions CI/CD
Quality, monitoring & SEO
Cypress
Sentry
PageSpeed
Technical SEO
Semrush
Screaming Frog
Data & analytics
MySQL
ClickHouse
Mixpanel
Product, design & workflow
Figma
Illustrator
Notion
Asana
Miro
n8n
Postman
Google Workspace
05
Managing technical projects
Reporting directly to the CEO
Budget · Risks · Progress
Daily
Status report
Weekly
Status meeting
Monthly
Performance report
Quarterly
Performance report
Annual
Performance report
Plus a live CEO follow-up dashboard for project status and team effort.
Project & team management
- Owned scope, budget, risk and quality
- Coordinated multiple teams and vendors
- Kept stakeholders and leadership informed
Planning
- Built product roadmaps and release plans
- Ran estimation and capacity planning
- Managed milestones, dependencies and timelines
Performance KPIs
On-time delivery90%
Within budget100%
Sprint predictability90%
Client satisfaction5/5
Agile & Scrum, applied
How I run delivery
Step 1
Product backlog
Step 2
Sprint planning
Step 3
Sprint & daily stand-up
Step 4
Sprint review
Step 5
Retrospective
Scrum roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master, team
Backlog grooming and user stories
Kanban for support and operations
06
Engineering governance & security
Release approval workflow I introduced
Nothing ships without passing every gate
Gate 1
Design
Gate 2
Development
Gate 3
QA
Gate 4
PM UAT
Gate 5
CTO sign-off
Code & repositories
- GitHub branch protection and CODEOWNERS
- Secret scanning and Dependabot updates
- Code-review standards and AI code review
Monitoring
- Automated Sentry → Asana routing of production errors
- Separate staging and production projects
- Clear naming conventions for fast triage
Security & compliance
- Led incident response to a critical cPanel vulnerability and moved the site to a hardened server
- Server hardening checklist shared by DevOps and site owners
- Led the cybersecurity vendor engagement for NCA-ECC: pentest, SOC, threat intelligence