Senior Technology Manager, Director

Deutsche Bank / DWS Core Platforms Berlin / Frankfurt, Germany Jan 2026 - Present

• Took ownership of DWS's core technology stack (SimCorp Dimension and Aladdin) by leading the Core Platforms squads, having been brought in to steward the asset-management platform foundation.
• Shaped DWS's new tokenization platform from the ground up by serving as Blockchain Tech Lead across its early architecture.

• SimCorp Dimension
• Aladdin
• Blockchain

Director - Digital Asset Custody

Deutsche Bank Berlin / Frankfurt, Germany Oct 2023 - Dec 2025

• Launched the bank's first MiCA-ready blockchain platform under BaFin supervision by building and leading a 40-engineer team across Germany, the UK, and India.
• Made the platform production-ready by architecting and coordinating 20+ internal integrations into payment, custody, compliance, and core-banking systems.
• Kept the platform compliant with security, AML/AFC, data-privacy, and data-residency rules by embedding those controls directly into the architecture under financial-services oversight.
• Supported banking operations across multiple geographies by establishing secure, scalable system architectures suited to enterprise-grade demands.

• Java
• Kafka
• Oracle
• Blockchain
• on-prem
• GCP

Director - Engagement Alliance

HelloFresh Berlin, Germany Feb 2023 - Aug 2023

• Kept Recipe Engagement and Personalization shipping across HelloFresh's global brand portfolio by leading a 60-engineer alliance after taking over the engagement platform.
• Improved delivery throughput by running an organization optimization that made the alliance leaner and faster to ship.

• Go
• Kotlin
• PostgreSQL
• Kafka
• Terraform
• AWS

Director - Vendor Supply Chain

Delivery Hero Berlin, Germany Apr 2021 - Jan 2023

• Built a EUR 5M GMV Restaurant Supply Chain business serving foodpanda, PedidosYa, Talabat, and Mjam by bootstrapping the product and organization from scratch.
• Took a new platform from zero to kickoff within three months by drafting the technical roadmap and system designs on arrival.
• Recruited 80+ engineers across Delivery Hero by serving as bar raiser and hiring manager across 200+ interviews while scaling the organization.
• Set the GraphQL standard adopted across Delivery Hero brands by co-authoring the company-wide API Guidelines.
• Raised the bar on technical guidelines, cross-squad collaboration, hiring, and onboarding by introducing company-wide changes as a cross-company bar raiser.
• Scored 60+ points above the company-average eNPS by investing heavily in team health and culture while leading a newly formed org.

• Python
• Go
• PostgreSQL
• DynamoDB
• Kafka
• Terraform
• AWS
• GCP

VP of Engineering

Jodel Berlin, Germany Apr 2020 - Mar 2021

• Led engineering for Jodel's hyperlocal social network as VP of Engineering, owning platform delivery, reliability, and team leadership.

CTO

EatFirst Berlin, Germany Apr 2019 - Apr 2020

• Consolidated three acquired companies onto a unified platform in under 12 months by running the pre- and post-acquisition technical integration as CTO through the M&A.
• Kept delivery moving across four time zones by directly managing a 16-engineer team spanning Australia, Lithuania, Germany, and Egypt.
• Stood up a new Egyptian engineering team in six weeks by running a focused hiring sprint to add local delivery capacity.
• Simplified post-M&A complexity by planning and supervising the migration of acquired platforms onto a shared stack.

• PHP
• C#
• Python
• PostgreSQL
• SQL Server
• Ansible
• Terraform
• AWS

Lead Software Engineer

WeQ Global Berlin, Germany Apr 2017 - Mar 2019

• Delivered 1B+ clicks per day at sub-50 ms p99 by building and scaling a distributed AdService to replace the legacy serving layer.
• Bought runway for the rebuild by maintaining and progressively refactoring a 50M-request/day PHP-on-MongoDB monolith.

• Java
• PHP
• MongoDB
• Aerospike
• Kafka
• Hadoop
• Ansible
• Consul
• Packer
• Terraform
• AWS

CTO

Eventtus Cairo, Egypt Oct 2015 - Feb 2017

• Grew the technical team from 2 to 14 and scaled the company from 7 to 24 by rebuilding the hiring pipeline, introducing competency-based appraisals, and enforcing pay grades as incoming CTO.
• Reached 5x scalability at 75% of prior cost and powered conferences with 50k+ attendees by automating rolling deployments on AWS and cutting over from a monolith to microservices in Ruby, Node.js, and Go.

• Ruby on Rails
• Node.js
• Go
• PostgreSQL
• AWS

CTO

OverC Studios Cairo, Egypt Jul 2013 - Jan 2015

• Shipped multiple cross-platform mobile projects by designing the architecture and building a 14-person team to stand up the studio.

• Ruby on Rails
• PostgreSQL
• AWS

Technology Manager

Raya Social Media Cairo, Egypt Aug 2011 - Jun 2013

• Launched Egypt's first two social networks (OshareK and Nassya) by owning the technology end-to-end.

• Ruby on Rails
• PostgreSQL
• AWS

Technology Manager

Damlag Cairo, Egypt Jul 2010 - Jul 2011

• Architected the first offline/online movie ticketing system in Egypt, now selling 100K+ tickets per month.

• PHP
• MySQL
• Linux

Development Team Lead

NTG - Egypt Development Center Cairo, Egypt Apr 2009 - Jul 2010

• Maintained a portal serving 1M hits per minute and mentored a strong open source team.

• PHP
• Apache
• MySQL
• Linux

Lead Software Engineer

OpenCraft Cairo, Egypt Mar 2006 - Mar 2009

• Delivered solutions based on Drupal, vTiger CRM and Apache Lucene by leading and mentoring a small team of engineers and designers.
• Shortened release cycles across client projects by building a continuous delivery pipeline for Drupal.

• PHP
• Drupal
• vTiger CRM
• Apache Lucene
• MySQL
• Linux

Earlier roles

Software engineering Cairo, Egypt 2002 - 2006