I work where product, architecture and engineering meet.
I turn business and operational complexity into systems people can actually use — taking products from problem definition through workflow design, architecture, implementation and production operation.
Hands-on, end to end.
I am a hands-on CTO, product engineer and software architect working across product strategy, platform architecture, engineering execution and production operations.
At VIA I lead product and engineering for a marketplace and logistics ecosystem — a seventeen-service backend, a web platform and six applications — and own technology decisions across architecture, security, reliability, release governance and infrastructure. I care about practical system design, build-versus-buy judgment, and AI-assisted engineering governed by written standards and human release controls.
Based in Cairo, Egypt. Arabic (native), English (professional).
Capabilities.
Product
- Product strategy
- Workflow design
- Product architecture
- Business-to-technology translation
- End-to-end delivery
Architecture
- System and software architecture
- Distributed systems and microservices
- Service boundary design
- API and event-driven architecture
- Identity architecture
- C4, sequence and deployment diagrams
Engineering
- Backend — Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Redis, RabbitMQ
- Web — Next.js, React, TypeScript
- Mobile — Flutter
- Real-time systems, WebSockets
- Geospatial, payments and wallet systems
- OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, RBAC
Production
- AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions
- Traefik, Nginx
- Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Sentry
- Health checks, backup and restore
- Release governance and security engineering
AI & data
- AI coding agents and agentic workflows
- Spec-driven development
- Workflow automation
- Machine learning and predictive analytics
- scikit-learn, pandas, NumPy, Jupyter
Overall professional capability — not every technology listed is in use on every platform.
Principles.
- Restraint over noiseTechnology should support the product, not create unnecessary complexity.
- Architect for the third yearBuild systems that remain understandable to the engineers who inherit them.
- Operate, then optimiseProduction, observability and rollback are part of product engineering.
Experience.
- 2025 — Present
Chief Technology Officer — VIA
Early-stage marketplace and logistics platform, Cairo. Product and engineering across workflows, architecture, backend services, web and mobile products, infrastructure, security, production operations, governance and hiring.
- 2024 — 2025
Senior Product Engineer — Etchilia
Owned product and engineering for a furniture brand's digital presence and commerce workflows, from requirements to live operation.
- 2023 — 2024
Software Engineer — EcoDesign Global
Designed and built web systems and internal tooling across backend, frontend and integration layers, from requirements through implementation, testing and release.
- 2022 — 2024
System Developer — MSA University
Developed and maintained university digital systems and academic platforms, including the simulated RFID campus and predictive-analytics environment later presented at IEEE ICLLDE-25.
- 2020 — Present
Independent Systems Developer
Web systems and commercial websites — including the Still Value commercial real-estate marketing site — owned from client problem through architecture, implementation and delivery.
Education & research.
B.Sc. Computer Science, Software Engineering — 2024
October University for Modern Sciences and Arts (MSA), Cairo · validated by the University of Greenwich, UK. Graduation project graded A-: a simulated RFID-enabled campus attendance and payment environment with predictive analytics.
Smart RFID Simulation and Predictive Analytics for Attendance and Campus Payments
H. M. Elalimy, M. Samy · accepted for publication, IEEE ICLLDE-25, Cairo, July 2025.