BACKEND ENGINEERING LEAD · DUBAI
I build the systems other systems run on.
building CI/CD pipelines on AWS…
systems engineer · uptime …
I'm an infrastructure and product engineer based in Dubai. My work lives where backend code meets the platform it runs on: CI/CD pipelines, AWS infrastructure, and the API contracts that let frontend and backend teams ship in parallel instead of waiting on each other.
Currently Backend Engineering Lead at Hightekers. Before that: Mozn, on the platform behind AI risk products; three and a half years at Kaso (YC W22), where I led the platform team for B2B food-supply commerce; and HIPAA-compliant health-tech at Medicus AI. Along the way I've automated release pipelines, cut build times, reverse-engineered undocumented data formats, and turned "works on my machine" into "runs in production".
I care about boring reliability: pipelines that never surprise you, APIs that mean what the spec says, and infrastructure you can hand to the next engineer without an apology.
GitHub Actions runners on AWS EC2, self-hosted and self-managed: provisioned instances, hardened the runner environment, and wired pipelines so the team gets fast, private builds without paying hosted-runner prices for every push.
A working agreement between frontend and backend teams: the API contract is written first and treated as the source of truth, so both sides build against the same spec in parallel — fewer integration surprises, fewer "who changed this field" threads.
Reverse-engineered the storage format of Manager.io accounting files: an SQLite container holding Protobuf-encoded records. Built a decoder that turns opaque business data back into something you can query, export, and audit.
Digital tooling for eye care — bringing clinic workflows, patient data, and the infrastructure behind them into one product. Early stage and under active construction; watch this status dot.
Leading backend engineering: architecture, delivery pipelines, and the cross-team API workflows that keep frontend and backend shipping against the same contract.
Solutions and backend engineering on AI-driven risk products — Python services and the platform work that gets ML out of notebooks and into production.
Joined as a backend developer, took over the platform team in 2022. Designed scalable backend architectures for B2B food-supply commerce, ran CI/CD and DevOps practices across teams, and used AI/ML to push automation further — three and a half years from early-stage YC startup to mature platform.
Node.js/NestJS microservices and RESTful APIs on AWS — EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS — with CI/CD pipelines, security hardening, code review, and mentorship.
HIPAA-compliant health-tech backends in PHP/Yii2 and MySQL — secure APIs, data-protection protocols, and the CI/CD to ship them safely. Where the health-tech itch started.
.NET and Angular web applications: REST APIs, SQL Server, and the team's first steps into CI/CD best practices.
First production systems — Laravel builds and web delivery. Process start; uptime counter began here.
Where the systems habit started — plus a HarvardX Public Leadership certificate (2025) for the human side of engineering.
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