Chief Technology Officer
Sanadak
Total years of experience :11 years, 8 Months
Scaling up on existing capabilities in PropTech and building new disruptive digital capabilities in FinTech and AI.
Building, mentoring, and managing the tech team and setting up the vision and the strategy for how technology will be used in the company.
Managing products' roadmaps along with the practices, and timelines for the SDLC activities.
Provide digital consultation to the company's board and make executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements.
Managing the technology budget and ensuring that technological resources meet the company's short and long-term objectives.
Keep up with technology trends and developments and ensure all technology practices adhere to regulatory standards.
Helping large organizations build disruptive digital capabilities and drive lasting innovation and breakthrough engagement in FinTech, InsurTech, HealthTech, and other emerging technologies.
Helping create a new digital unit for an existing business or incubate and ultimately scale a new stand-alone business, depending on client needs.
Partner with clients to transform their digital capabilities using the build-operate-transfer approach.
leveraging my experience in defining and leading tech-enabled transformations.
Leading and working daily alongside colleagues and cross-functional teams from varying backgrounds of both digital and non-digital on client needs, helping create a vision and road map for their new business, products, or service lines.
Architecting the digital future of these enterprises and being at the center of innovation for clients helping them expand their business and establish a high-tech functioning organization.
Understanding and describing the baseline IT architectures and developing the transition and target IT architectures for enterprises.
Creating the cost model for the organization’s technical infrastructure and the total cost of ownership of the entire IT solution.
Building estate of the art PropTech solutions based on advanced DevOps, Cloud Native, and Microservices technologies and architectures.
Establish a solid tech infrastructure for future FinTech, AI/ML, and XR technologies and services.
Building, mentoring, and managing the tech team and setting up the vision and the strategy for how technology will be used in the company.
Managing products' roadmaps along with the practices, and timelines for the SDLC activities.
Provide digital consultation to the company's board and make executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements.
Managing the technology budget and ensuring that technological resources meet the company's short and long-term objectives.
Keep up with technology trends and developments and ensure all technology practices adhere to regulatory standards.
Provide technical leadership and management for the e-services and applications development team.
Build and adapt assistive technologies across a variety of product categories.
Work with cross-functional teams to build and ship technical solutions for desired user experiences across a broad range of products.
Provide hands-on technical leadership to the team, including my code contributions, design reviews, and prioritization.
Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements.
Manage departmental resources, mentoring to enhance and maintain a best-in-class engineering team.
Drive, facilitate innovation and Implement process improvements for my team.
Provide consultation and advice for senior and executive management.
Led the development team to build all-new Iktissab loyalty applications including web and mobile using the latest technologies and design patterns and serving more than 2 million users with an average of 2.5K to 3K concurrent active users in 30 minutes and 1K payment transactions per day.
Led the development team to refactor the Othaim Intranet mobile app with its back-end services that serve more than 12K employees across 18 companies in the Othaim group.
Design and develop a high available serverless microservices API gateway for all Othaim external 3rd party integrations to build a unified integration layer for all internal business applications like (POS, HR, Back Office, etc.) serves more than 1 million requests per month.
Provided Agile and DevOps transformation training for all software development department employees with hands-on practices and actual implementation to the local SDLC.
A member of Agile and DevOps transformation committee responsible to define, improve and facilitate Agile and DevOps practices' implementation.
A lead developer and scrum master for teams of 5 to 10 members where provide technical and team leadership through coaching, facilitation and mentorship.
Building and working on governmental e-services and enterprise grade software systems with 50% of my time in development and 50% in leadership.
Enabling utilization of solutions consulting experience and knowledge in enterprise systems architecture to successfully address business problems through design, research, development and leadership.
Communicate and interact with endpoints, stakeholders and other teams in a way to drive a qualified SDLC.
Designed and developed reliable system architectures for important governmental business processes and capabilities related to Saudi MCI, MOJ and SASO.
Provided learning and awareness sessions in topics related to SDLC, solution architecture and cloud computing.
Achieved awards of internal department competitions related to applying new technologies, architecture styles and design patterns.
Responsible for internal and external software projects including web, mobile, desktop and custom applications.
Part of the development team for interactive media content including interactive slide shows, touch screens or any scripted animated objects.
Responsible for technical and cost analysis documentation for all software projects.
Designed and developed the company’s custom task management system using advanced technologies, architecture styles and design patterns to be as a core for further development aiming to reach a full custom ERP in the future.
Provided technical training sessions for all teams and departments on how to effectively use the company’s task management system.
Designed and built many web sites, portals and custom applications for 1 to 5 million SAR budget projects related to many private and public-sector organizations including Saudi MOI and MOH.
Part of digital marketing team responsible for reconstruction of the bank’s website and the daily content management.
Communicate and interact with core IT department to handle the website deployment and operations.
Respond to production and customer issues.
Handle the online digital campaigns within the website.
Five years of computer software engineering focusing on programming techniques, information technology and computer science, mathematical and physics fundamentals, techniques and tools of advanced programming, software analysis and design, software architecture and management, database management, computer graphics, calculus, networking and communications, artificial intelligence fundamentals.
