Backend engineer and technical leader with a passion for building scalable distributed systems. McGill Computer Engineering graduate (2012-2016) currently leading engineering at Sarwa, MENA's leading digital wealth management platform.

Previously VP Engineering at Anghami & OSN+, where I led the engineering organization across MENA's premier entertainment platform serving 120M+ users. Specializing in high-performance backend systems, distributed infrastructure, and developer tooling.

• 2026 - Joined Sarwa as VP, leading engineering for MENA's digital wealth management platform
• 2025 - Published Rebuilding OSN+: A Technical Post-Mortem detailing the platform rebuild
• 2024 - Led OSN+ platform complete rebuild in record time following Anghami-OSN merger
• 2023 - Promoted to VP Engineering at Anghami
• 2021 - Key figure in Anghami's IPO - first MENA tech company on NASDAQ
• 2020 - Launched Anghami Live Radios for real-time social music streaming
• 2019 - Architected Anghami Chats with WebSocket infrastructure; Promoted to Engineering Lead
• 2017 - Joined Anghami as Backend Engineer
• 2016 - Graduated from McGill University
• 2015 - Accepted offers from Amazon, Meta, and Google - chose Amazon
• 2014 - Software Engineering Intern at Ericsson
• 2012 - Started Computer Engineering at McGill University

📖 Rebuilding OSN+: A Technical Post-Mortem How we rebuilt OSN+ from scratch in 4 months — modular monolith architecture, protobuf contracts, and the birth of sebuf

📖 Deploying Ideas to Production Deep dive into building and deploying production-ready features at scale

📻 Anghami Live Radios Architecture of real-time social music streaming

• Fintech Infrastructure: Engineering scalable systems for digital wealth management at Sarwa
• Open Source Tooling: Evolving sebuf as a comprehensive Go protobuf toolkit
• Global Intelligence: Contributing to worldmonitor for real-time situational awareness
• Platform Engineering: Building reliable, high-throughput financial services infrastructure

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