Mostafa Ali Elganainy

Co-Founder

Egypt20 yrs 2 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led a multi-phase overhaul, halving release cycles.
Invented a 20x faster parallel column-loading algorithm.
Achieved 268% jump in trust in leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and data-intensive platform architect with strong leadership and transformation skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Agile MethodologiesLeadershipAlgorithm DevelopmentData Management

Other Skills

ScrumCI/CDCoachingTransformationScalabilityETLPrototypingNeuroscienceFinancial AnalysisCritical AnalysisBusiness Model DesignTransformersGenerative AIDeep LearningDecision-Making

About

Engineering leader & architect with 18 years of scaling technology, people, and process across SaaS and data-intensive platforms. As Head of Development, at Incorta I led a multi-phase overhaul that halved release cycles, cut customer-bug backlog 54 %, and trimmed R&D + cloud spend 35 %. Inventor of a 20 × faster parallel column-loading algorithm and builder of cohesive, high-performing teams (100 + engineers). Twelve years’ deep expertise in data indexing, retrieval, visualization, and management—turning bold ideas into resilient products and sustainable growth.

Experience

20 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

7 mos

Current Experience

Nowlun.com

2 roles

Head of AI

Oct 2025 – Present · 7 mos

Achieve market dominance by providing a superb customer experience. Position Nowlun as the best partner for our customers. Our aim is not to fulfill customer requests as they come, but we position ourself as a logistics consultant for our customers. We anticipate issues before they happen and provide and end-to-end risk assessment, tracking and consultations.
Nowlun is already doing that for large customers, but my mission is to extend the superb experience to smaller customers without breaking the bank. Using ML/AI to achieve this mission

Angel Investor

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Incorta

3 roles

VP of Engineering

Promoted

Nov 2023 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

Tasked by the CEO to boost agility and customer satisfaction, I strategized and executed a three-phase transformation that reshaped culture, delivery, and cost structure, taking the org from reactive to resilient and innovation-ready.
Highlights
268% jump in trust in leadership through a generative-culture program, IC career rubric, and 360° coaching.
Re-organized 16 squads into 3 autonomous groups + 1 innovation hub with zero attrition and clear ownership boundaries.
Rolled out PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and Architecture Runway, halving release cycles (6 → 3 weeks) and cutting certification time 57% (7 → 3 days).
Stabilized CI/CD: test-failure rate 71% → 2.4% and PR checks 6× faster.
54% Reduction in customer bug backlog and introduced engineering L3 rotation & GenAI-driven ticket KPIs.
Achieved 35% cloud-cost and 37% R&D-cost reductions, plus an 18 % realignment of R&D vs COGS.
Phase 3 just unlocked: partnering with strategic customers, kicked off scalability & observability as architecture runway, embedding resilience KPIs, and unblocking innovation teams

Agile MethodologiesScrumCI/CDLeadershipCoachingTransformation

Senior Software Architect

Promoted

Oct 2021 – Oct 2023 · 2 yrs

Developed 17x faster parallel column loading algorithm, vs. 3.7x maximum previous concurrency speed
Developed a Scalable PK Index, with 20x faster Deduplication speed
Architected and oversaw the execution of the new Loader Design, unlocking scalability and resilience for ETL jobs
Prototyped a number of scalability vision POCs
Prototyped observability and structured logs vision POCs

Algorithm DevelopmentData ManagementScalabilityETLPrototyping

Master Software Engineer

Jan 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Badr

Web Tech Lead

Apr 2018 – Jan 2019 · 9 mos · Alexandria Governorate, Egypt

Kacst gis technology innovation center

5 roles

VP Products for Tawseel (A KACST GIS company)

Sep 2017 – Mar 2018 · 6 mos

Vice President Service Delivery for NaviBees (KACST company)

Promoted

Jul 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

Mainly, was managing the services delivery and new directions regarding Mobile Apps architecture, plus managing the Data management team.

Product Manager

Jan 2016 – Jul 2016 · 6 mos

Engineering Director

Promoted

Apr 2015 – Jan 2016 · 9 mos

Software Development Team Lead

Apr 2014 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr

Badrit

3 roles

R&D Team Leader

Aug 2013 – May 2014 · 9 mos

I've started two new teams at BadrIT, focusing on delivering solutions based on cutting-edge technologies in the areas of Arabic Language Technologies and Computer Vision.
My Role with the Arabic Language Technologies was Developing, Technical Leading, Product Ownership and Management.
While with Computer vision team, I've been managing the projects and owning the products.

Team Leader

Sep 2012 – Jun 2013 · 9 mos · Egypt

Served as Senior Java Developer , and Managed teams working on different technologies.
During this period most work I've been doing was in the area of Data Visualisation and Information Retrieval.
Technologies used, were Solr, Mallet and Flex