Professional Technologist

20 years of experience across Egypt and the Middle East building/leading teams, projects, and products ranging from start-ups to enterprises. Proven experience to maintain focus on achieving bottom-line results with a passion for formulating and implementing customer-centric, metric-driven technology and business solutions to meet a diversity of needs. I have a superior record of leading and scaling agile engineering teams (cross-functional and remote), and delivering simultaneous, mission-critical projects both on time and under budget to achieve the ultimate business values. Developed an innovative digital transformation framework and utilized its strategies to launch FinTech consumer finance platforms (Open APIs, layered architecture, network effect, and multi-sided markets). Proven experience to design and manage high-level cybersecurity frameworks (OWASP security risks and FFIEC security assessment) to protect information assets of the organization and deliver secure platforms.

“The hardest thing to do is leaving your comfort zone. But you have to let go of the life you’re familiar with and take the risk to live the life you dream about.”

T. Arigo