Experience
10+ years across fintech, AI and high-scale consumer platforms, from hands-on engineering to leading teams.
- Mar 2026 – present · Remote
Engineering Lead (Security, Privacy & Compliance) · CNTXT AI
Lead a 9-engineer team building a regulated fintech and AI platform. Built its security and privacy program from scratch: shift-left controls with build-blocking gates, threat models and DPIAs for banking services.
- Sep 2025 – Mar 2026
Career break · Relocation
Left Meta for an international move that didn't go ahead.
- Apr 2024 – Sep 2025 · London
Technical Team Lead, Central Integrity · Meta
Led facial-recognition defences against impersonation and celebrity-bait scams: ~3.8× more scams caught at over 95% precision, on a tenth of the compute. Turned biometric privacy law in the US, UK, EU, Singapore and South Korea into engineering requirements.
- Oct 2021 – Mar 2024 · London
Technical Team Lead, Monitoring & Observability · Meta
Led the detection platform watching metrics across Meta's apps at 2.3B data points per second. Mean time to detect fell from a day to 15 minutes, and monetisation teams caught slow-burn revenue loss worth $8.7M.
- May 2021 – Oct 2021 · Dubai
Engineering Manager & Security Guild Lead · Dubizzle
Managed an engineering team and led the security guild: security planning, audits and training across the tech department and the wider EMPG group.
- Jun 2017 – Oct 2021 · Dubai
Senior Software Engineer · Dubizzle
Made listing publishing 10× faster (live in 15 minutes instead of 24 hours), moved feed servers to Kubernetes, and raised listing location accuracy from 60% to 90%.
- Aug 2016 – Jun 2017 · Berlin
Software Engineer · Retresco
Built natural-language generation products, including an engine that writes weather forecasts from numerical weather data for media clients.
- May 2015 – Jul 2016
Freelance Software Engineer
Built distributed crawlers, social-web analytics and monitoring tools for clients.
- Oct 2011 – Jul 2015 · Tunis
Software Engineer · ImDev
Built web platforms and data pipelines, including a crawler cockpit for ARCOMEM, an EU research project archiving events on the social web.
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Skills
- Leadership: technical strategy, architecture, roadmaps, engineering management, mentoring
- Security & privacy: application security, threat modelling, secure SDLC, DPIAs, privacy engineering, GDPR and fintech compliance
- Engineering: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Rust, distributed systems, AI/ML platforms
- Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability