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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Co-founded an AI startup, a virtual Running Coach.Used a combination of Generative AI, Deep Learning, Machine Learning and Sports Science to assist athletes in their fitness journeys from 5k to Marathon.Used OpenAI API, Python FastAPI, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Microsoft Azure, MongoDB, Reactand Celery to build the full stack application.

I worked with Unit21 in a remote capacity as a Software Engineer. I was involved in various verticals of the business, from KYC/Identity through to building a consortium to help send early fraud signals to companies about their users without sharing any PII. I was heavily involved in building the consortium, tasked with designing the algorithm to ensure.

Transitioned to Technical Advisor role having built an amazing team and been involved in building out the entire technical architecture.

Dubai

First tech hire, built full stack bank application using pre-paid cards from scratch in less than 6months. Owned the technology strategy and involved in higher level company strategy with theco-founders.Hired and lead a full in house tech team of 6+ developers.Built a fully licensed eKYC platform, the first in the region, to help onboard individuals onto.

Dubai

My role in houza was to get the tech going as quick as possible, building 0 to 1 all the required features on a super tight time scale, helping to recruit the founding and tech teams and launching the product in the market. Technologies used: NodeJS, MongoDB, Angular, AWS++

Remote

Unihorn develop new consumer internet businesses, angel invest in the founding team, and then raise outside capital to scale rapidly. My time working for Unihorn was mainly on the tech side of the first 2 consumer business produced.

Dubai

Co-founder of Styck FZ LLC. At Styck we encourage people to have a more active lifestyle by offering them rewards from our partners for moving more. We offer companies the opportunity to motivate their employees in an accessible, achievable and an alluring way. Started the company with my co-founder Alex. Bootstrapped ourselves with a budget close to zero.

Dubai

• Founded the Research and Development department within dubizzle to enable the company to be able to focus on new products and technologies without being distracted from it’s day to day operations.
• Built a small team focussed on both filling in the gaps in the classified market within the region and also disrupting it.
• Developed an app-based product which spun off into it’s own department/internal company.
• Created tests using lean methodologies to prove assumptions in order to continue with product and prototype development.

Dubai

• Directed a team of 6 managers, managing a total of ~50 employees in the Technology department.
• Interviewed hundreds of developers and involved in all tech related recruitment as the company grew.
• Managed budget for the whole of Technology and Infrastructure, including the hosting for the website generating hundreds of million page views per month with growing traffic.
• Attended conferences and training in China, Turkey and Singapore put on by our investors.
• Travelled for meetings and knowledge sharing with a sister company in Portugal, which produced the idea to develop a new strategic product for the company to help gain more market share.
• Transitioned department from tech-focussed to project focussed and involved in the recruitment of various project managers to assist with this transition.

Dubai

• Rewrote dubizzle.com from the ground up in eight months
• Built up the tech department of the company to 15 employees.
• Implemented Scrum/Agile development throughout the department.
• Expanded website focussed on one city and one language to multiple cities across 14 countries in the Middle East and North Africa and three languages.
• Part of due diligence process while receiving investment from a private equity company
• Constantly restructured team to meet changing business needs due to the company growing and receiving investment.

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