Experience & Everything Behind It
The career timeline below is one part of a wider profile. Here's everything that sits behind it — the skills, credentials, publications, and community work — in one place.
About
AI Architect & Delivery Lead for banks and regulated enterprises across the UAE/GCC — architecture, hands-on build, compliance, and rollout. 20+ years shipping systems that scale and pass audits, previously at ING, Commercial Bank of Dubai, and eBay.
Skills & Expertise
AI & Machine Learning
LangChain & Langflow · Multi-Agent Orchestration · RAG Pipeline Design · LLMOps & Model Evaluation · Azure OpenAI & AI Foundry · Prompt Engineering
Engineering
Python · Production Deployment · Cloud & DevOps · Microservices Architecture
Leadership
Team Leadership · Fintech & Banking Domain · Regulatory Compliance · Stakeholder Communication · Cost Optimization
Credentials
Issued and verified by IBM, AWS, Cisco, MongoDB, Project Management Institute, Pendo, Databricks, Google Cloud, plus HackerRank and Forage completion certificates.
Publications
- The Manager's Code — Crafting Cultures of Engineering Excellence
- Mastering Financial APIs — Building Advanced Trading Systems and Integrating Modern Banking Solutions
- Modern Fintech & Banking Transformation — Strategy, Operations, Risk, Leadership, and Technology
- LetsTalk AI — AI Course
Writing
Articles on engineering, fintech, and AI published to Medium and Substack — covering production AI delivery, agentic systems, and engineering leadership.
Open Source
Public repositories and contributions on GitHub across AI tooling, developer utilities, and banking-related projects.
My Professional Journey
A track record of delivering high-stakes financial technology and leading world-class engineering teams.
AI Delivery Lead / Solution Architect
AI Delivery Lead / Solution Architect
Builds AI programs using Python, Azure OpenAI, and Anthropic that help customers automate business processing.
Key Achievements:
- Cut monthly inference costs by implementing LLMOps monitoring — model drift detection, token usage tracking, and cost allocation dashboards
- Stopped fraudulent transactions in real time with a scoring system that combines AI with traditional machine learning, reducing false alarms for the bank
- Designed and deployed a multi-agent KYC screening system using LangChain, Azure OpenAI, and Anthropic LLMs
Team Leader, Applications
Team Leader, Applications
Runs the teams that build and operate the bank's mobile app and all personal banking applications — including customer onboarding, personal loan, and credit card application systems.
Key Achievements:
- Maintained 100% on-time delivery across 12 major releases while leading a cross-functional team of 10 engineers, BAs, and testers
- Cut release cycle from 2 weeks to 2 days by implementing proper governance and CI/CD pipelines
- Reduced security audit findings annually by driving PCI DSS compliance across application layers
Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager
Managed the engineers who run the bank's systems — modernizing how the bank handles accounts, transactions, and customer verification.
Key Achievements:
- Completed a full digital overhaul of the mobile banking platform in 18 months, managing an 8-engineer team plus 4 outsourced staff
- Architected a Swift-based mobile app, from beginning to end, handling 500K+ monthly transactions
- Established engineering standards: code review guidelines, 90%+ automated test coverage, and structured incident response
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Built and maintained the mobile apps customers use to move money, log in, and register their accounts.
Key Achievements:
- Shipped high-throughput payment processing and e-commerce features in the mobile app (Swift), covering money transfers, login, and registration
- Reduced fraud false positives while accelerating screening by designing automated fraud detection pipelines
- Mentored junior engineers and led technical design reviews