Professional Summary
Senior software engineer with 8 years building bilingual fintech products across the GCC. Led teams of 6+ across Riyadh and Dubai delivering Arabic-first consumer apps that serve over 12 million monthly active users. Specialist in payments, KYC flows, and large-scale Arabic NLP.
Professional Experience
Senior Software Engineer — STC · Riyadh2023 – Present
Lead engineer on the bilingual customer portal serving 12M users across the Kingdom.
- Cut authentication flow latency by 42% by re-architecting the session layer.
- Shipped the Arabic-first onboarding rebuild — conversion +18% in the first quarter.
- Mentored 4 junior engineers; two promoted within 12 months.
Software Engineer — Aramco Digital2021 – 2023
Built the in-house Arabic NLP platform powering 9 internal products.
- Shipped the Arabic NLP pipeline that cut support load by 30%.
- Designed the bilingual CMS used by all Aramco Digital teams.
Software Engineer — Careem · Dubai2018 – 2021
Payments squad — tokenization, refunds, and fraud rules across 14 markets.
Education
BSc, Computer Science2014 – 2018
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)
Skills
React · TypeScript · Node.js · AWS · Python · Arabic NLP · PostgreSQL · GraphQL
Languages
Arabic (Native) · English (Fluent) · French (Conversational)
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional — Amazon Web Services (2024)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator — CNCF (2023)