Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 · 1 yr · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Hybrid

• Delivered SaaS CRM in 2 months serving 3 prop firms; drove product strategy critical to business survival
• Established Agile/XP for team productivity and knowledge sharing; hired PM to ensure continuity
• Mentored leaders for key departments; managed infrastructure optimization
• Architected scalable platform supporting 45K users with 99.9% uptime

Jun 2024 – Jan 2026 · 1 yr 7 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Hybrid

• Led technology strategy across 6 business units (hedge fund, broker, 3 prop firms, crypto MM, CRM)
• Influenced key conversations that raised $20M AUM; served on executive team presenting technology vision to investors
• Scaled team from 5 to 30 people: designed HR strategy, budget, onboarding processes, and performance management
• Reduced operational costs 50% by restructuring team locations and optimizing skills-to-needs fit across departments
• Spearheaded agentic AI initiatives: 10x’d development speed using LLMs, MCPs, and custom agents

Jan 2022 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · United Arab Emirates · On-site

• · Managed $3M AUM generating 15% return per year steadily, using a DCA strategy.
• · Built a backtesting system from scratch using backtrader, vectorbt, and a web frontend.
• · Managed strategies using dynamoDB with a web frontend.
• · Deployed strategies to AWS using docker
• · Created opensearch dashboards to monitor strategies
• · Built a crypto trade engine with tick-to-trade < 50us thanks to rust
• · Built, backtested and deployed CME futures directional strategies — python
• · Built an infra that leverages rabbitmq for ws communication, clickhouse for persistent storage, and grafana for visulisation, all stored on a docker container, deployed to AWS
• · Published quant.bt, a hyper efficient python backtesting library written in numba
• · Wrap and execute CME strategies using py-MT5 running under wine

Sep 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Thailand · On-site

• · Manual execution and management of arbitrage trades in illiquid markets
• · Built triangular arbitrage bots between crypto exchanges
• · Created and backtested directional strategies on CME and CFD markets

Jul 2020 – Sep 2020 · 2 mos

Dec 2014 – Oct 2022 · 7 yrs 10 mos · Nomad 🗺

• ● Built high end visualization graph tools.
• ● Enabled the team to reduce the development time by moving the build tools from a bulky setup, into a faster system using webpack and livereload functionalities.
• ● Hired and managed the tech team, conducting weekly standup to put tech and business on the same page.
• Tech used: react.js, d3.js, sigma.js, jira

Sep 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area 🇺🇲

• Originally kickstarted with a basic MVP inspired by Buffer's MVP 😇, Beepl was a centralized repository of all your contacts. 👌
• The web app intially used Facebook and Linkedin contacts, then later on, google contacts were added. 👍
• Beepl won first place at the Arabnet Ideation competition 2013. 🎉
• The money was used to invest in more feature like tagging of contacts, and importing of spreadsheet contacts.

Jun 2012 – Sep 2012 · 3 mos · Beirut District, Lebanon 🇱🇧

• ● Studied and designed approaches to create a preference recognition engine 🤔
• ● Created tools to format data to make it ready for data processing 😎
• ● Implemented prediction models 🤓

Jun 2011 – Aug 2011 · 2 mos · Greater Pittsburgh Area 🇺🇲

• Was hired to be a summer scholar at the robotics institute.
• We worked on a google funded project 😎
• Our job was to predict where an individual might want to go next inside of a building, based on their historical movements.
• And then we published a paper about it 🎉 🏆
• https://www.ri.cmu.edu/publications/proactive-indoor-navigation-on-mobile-devices/