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Ashraf Foad

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A seasoned Solution & Enterprise Architect, boasting over 25 years of extensive experience in driving technical excellence and performance optimization within the Financial Services and Banking sectors. I am dedicated to delivering exceptional results through strategic planning, innovative problem-solving, and collaborative leadership. Strong in idea communication to implementation using excellent written and verbal skills, to maximize engagement and understanding. What sets me apart? Passion for building and mentoring high-performance IT teams to deliver record results around a common vision and shared values. Main contributor to team induction/onboarding program. This was extended outside of work by delivering value through a YouTube channel, and Udemy course. My dedication to continuous learning and growth has led me to pursue many certifications in IT. This helps me stay up-to-date with industry best practices. I am always eager to embrace new challenges and leverage my skills to contribute to the success of the organization.

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Aya Aljubaili

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Aya Aljubaili, also known as Aya ElGebeely, is a Dubai-based technology executive, enterprise-AI leader, inventor, and digital-transformation advisor. She is the Founder and CEO of Talents Arena, a platform focused on building high-accuracy hiring engines for organizations across the Middle East and Africa. Aya Aljubaili is a technology leader with a multidisciplinary background spanning enterprise AI, software engineering, digital transformation, product delivery, and startup leadership. As Founder and CEO of Talents Arena, she is building AI-enabled hiring infrastructure designed to help organizations identify and build high-performing teams across the MEA region. She also works as a Digital Transformation Consultant at Envision Technology Solutions and mentors founders through Plug and Play Tech Center and Startup Factory. Her career includes executive and consulting technology leadership roles in FinTech, InsurTech, healthcare technology, and startup environments. She has served as CTO or consulting CTO for organizations including CASABOT, SOLO, Pravica, Beyond Solution, and Digital Bridges. Earlier roles include software-delivery leadership at Kashier, engineering leadership at 360imaging, and a squads-management role at Instabug. Aya began her career in medical-software engineering and quality assurance, working on medical-imaging modules and software-quality processes. She later spent several years at IBM’s globalization and bidirectional-language support organization, contributing to process automation, AIX globalization support, and Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian language-related technology. She holds a master’s degree in Computer Software Engineering and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Information Systems from Cairo University, and has completed Harvard Business School Online’s Disruptive Strategy program. Her profile also lists multiple professional certifications across agile facilitation, secure software lifecycle practices, coaching, cloud architecture, and IT operations. She is credited on several patents and publications related to globalization, Unicode, software-development automation, and software engineering practices.

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Ehsan Abouzeid

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Ehsan Abouzeid is a partner at PwC focusing on Technology Strategy, Transformation and M&A Technology integration and carve-out, with more than 20 years of experience in the field of management, Digital Transformation and M&A. Ehsan's core skillset is in the leading, design, development and delivery of Technology Strategy, critical large transformation programmes, and pre or post M&A transactions or turnaround situations. His participation in the full lifecycle implementation of projects, as a team member or leader, in a mixed format provides him with a strong analytical approach to solving complex technical issues. Key focus areas: - Technology and Digital Strategy - Digital Transformation - M&A Integration and Separation - Aligning CIO agenda with Enterprise business strategy - Enterprise and Integration Architecture - IT Due Diligence - Team leading - Business requirement gathering and analysis

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Haytham Hakim

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Haytham Hakim is a full-stack software engineer, founder, and product builder whose experience spans enterprise software, AI applications, and consumer products. At Microsoft, he worked on Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, developing enterprise-facing software with React and TypeScript and data-processing capabilities using C# and Scala. He later co-founded Tribbel and served as its CTO, building a social app designed to turn shared interests into real-world friendships. The platform attracted a 4,700-person waitlist, connected more than 1,000 people through meetups, and achieved a 72% monthly active user rate during its private beta. His subsequent work includes leading product engineering at Cassi, where he helped build an AI application for homeowners and developed a multimodal AI agent using LangChain, and advising Henry.AI on architecture and frontend development. Through KONQR, he has built three AI-powered SaaS products end to end and grown a YouTube channel to 70,000 followers. His portfolio also includes Jrnly, an AI-powered journaling companion, and Mindfulspace, a focus and productivity platform. Haytham holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with a minor in Computer Engineering from the University of Rochester. He previously attended the African Leadership Academy, where he received awards for creative thinking and entrepreneurial achievement. His work combines hands-on engineering, product design, and an interest in building technology that helps people connect, reflect, and work more effectively.

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Hoda Baraka

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Experienced Information Communication Technology Advisor with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration industry. Skilled in Enterprise Architecture, ITIL, Strategy, IT Strategy, and Public Policy. Strong community and social services professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused in Computer Engineering from Cairo University.

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Hussein Nasser

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Early in my career 20 years ago I built database applications without fully grasping their inner mechanics. Facing performance issues, racing conditions bug and even corruption often left me helpless. I resolved to truly understand the workings of database systems, ensuring I knew every query from my app and its execution in the db and what I choose to make as a transaction and what I make into an atomic query. From that day I have fascinated by pursuing deep understanding of what is happening behind the scenes in software. If you follow me here you would see deep dive posts about backend, databases and operating systems.

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Lamia Youseff

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I build AI systems and their governance structure at scale. As a Board Director at Stendörren Fastigheter AB (Nasdaq Stockholm) and a board member of the Stanford GSB Alumni Association, I bring AI governance advocacy, organizational change expertise, and deep operating knowledge of AI systems at scale to the boardroom. As an AI Executive in BigTech (Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta), I've spent two decades building the platforms, teams, and strategies that sit behind some of the most complex technical bets in the industry. As a founding member of Google Cloud, I helped build what became an $80B+ ARR platform. At Facebook, I led the ML Platform powering AI across its core products — including the ranking and targeting systems driving billions in ads revenue. At Apple, I ran multi-billion-dollar AI product operations, overseeing 150+ AI/ML engineers and leading privacy-preserving on-device AI at the executive level. At Microsoft, I drove Fortune 500 AI and cloud migrations across some of the world's largest organizations. What ties it together? I build AI systems and their governance structure at scale: platforms, engineering organizations, the operational systems that keep them running under pressure and the governance structure that hold them together. Today I lead JazzComputing, an AI advisory firm focused on technical due diligence for investors and enterprise AI transformation. I also serve as a visiting research affiliate at MIT CSAIL and Stanford University, and lecture on AI technology strategy at Stanford GSB. My research spans 20+ publications, 5+ patents, and 5,000+ citations. My PhD is in computer science (UCSB), with postdoctoral work at MIT and a Master's in Business and Management from Stanford GSB. I'm interested in: board director roles in public companies, executive roles at the intersection of AI, large-scale engineering, and revenue, and in advisory partnerships where technical depth, strategic clarity and structured governance matter. Writing about: What it actually takes to transform an organization with AI, not just adopt it.

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Maged Abidou

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FinTech innovator and quantitative specialist with a PhD in Engineering Mathematics, FRM® certification, and 20+ years in financial product development. While my professional roles have focused on developing FinTech products, my passion since 2021 has been applying AI to quantitative portfolio construction and asset management. I bridge business strategy and technical execution to build data-driven solutions for trading, risk management, and digital wealth platforms.

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Marwa Abdeldayem

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Marwa Abdeldayem Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Strategic and visionary Product Management leader with over 14 years of experience, distinguished for driving product success and customer satisfaction on a scale. Expert in orchestrating cross-organizational strategies and leading teams to exceed divisional goals and OKRs. Renowned for fostering a culture of resilience, collaboration, and innovation to deliver exceptional product and customer experiences.

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Mohamed AbuMuslim

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Mohamed AbuMuslim is a seasoned cybersecurity expert and a pioneer in the field of offensive security. He established the first Offensive Security Team at Microsoft Egypt, where he led groundbreaking initiatives to bolster organizational security. As the Co-founder of BSides Albuquerque (BSidesABQ), Mohamed fosters community-driven cybersecurity innovation and knowledge-sharing. An accomplished speaker, Mohamed has shared his insights at renowned conferences like Black Hat MEA, RE:Hack, BSides and many more, focusing on topics such as adversarial AI engineering and cloud security. Beyond his technical expertise, He creates engaging educational content for CyberDose.

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Mohamed Abusrea

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I’m a Product Engineer with 12+ years in software and staff-level depth in frontend systems. I’m currently open to remote Senior Product Engineer or Senior Frontend Engineer opportunities, full-time or contract and available immediately. Most recently, I worked at Yassir as a Staff Software Engineer. My strongest work sits at the intersection of product judgment and frontend engineering: turning ambiguous problems into clear scope, collaborating with product and design, making technical tradeoffs, and shipping reliable experiences. Across Yassir, Nord Security, Delivery Hero, QbDVision, Landmark Group, and earlier teams, I’ve built and evolved frontend architectures, design systems, performance and reliability tooling, and operational products. Outside my professional roles, I co-founded Almdrasa and have built products that earned sustained adoption, not just launches. I’ve maintained and evolved Quran Tab since 2019, owning its product direction, UX, releases, and feedback-led improvements. Today, it is approaching 60,000 Chrome users and a 4.9/5 rating from 1K ratings, evidence of reach and trust built over years. I also evolved Quran Station from a browser extension into a Quran audio product available across web and mobile. Its Chrome extension alone is approaching 20,000 weekly users and is rated 4.9/5 from 331 ratings, showing that it has moved well beyond launch into recurring use. I’m at my best in hands-on roles where engineers contribute to discovery, product decisions, and delivery, not only implementation. Based in Cairo. International contractor and EOR arrangements are both welcome. Core: TypeScript, React, Next.js, frontend architecture, design systems, performance, testing, and product delivery.

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Mohamed El-Geish

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Mohamed El-Geish CTO & Co-Founder at Monta.AI Bio: elgeish.com Passionate about machine learning, big data, debugging, software craftsmanship, teaching, coaching, building engineering organizations that solve challenging problems effectively, helping others with their aspirations, and writing about the above (see more about the Computing with Data book here: computingwithdata.com). My personal mission is to empower people around the globe to collaborate more effectively using software that provides great experiences

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