About

Fifteen years of putting systems in order.

I started in 2011 writing Android apps and Rails backends at a small startup in Cairo. In 2015 I joined Robusta and stayed for eleven years: engineer, team lead, account manager, solutions architect, engineering manager, deputy general manager, then business unit lead. Since November 2024 I have been Director of Enterprise Architecture at RTG.

The titles changed every few years. The habit did not. Find out how the business actually runs, draw it, decide which system is the truth, and make everything else hold to it. Then stay long enough to see whether it held.

Outside work I am building NightShade Health, an app that reads food labels for people who avoid nightshades. And I run my own house the way I run systems at work: on Home Assistant, with an assistant called Jarvis and more automations than anyone strictly needs.

Illustration of Mohamed's home office: two screens, an assistant orb on a shelf and a task board on the wall.
The room I work from: two screens, Jarvis on the shelf, the agent board on the wall.

Education

2013 to 2014
MSc Software Engineering, University of SouthamptonDistinction. Dissertation: a gamification platform designed for Middle Eastern culture.
2007 to 2012
BSc Computer Science and Engineering, German University in CairoOn a scholarship. Bachelor project: an augmented reality app for looking at geo-tagged photos through time.

Talks

2014
4th INTERREG Global Culture and Creativity Conference, WinchesterPresented my paper, A gamification framework for native Arabic speaking countries.

Certificates

  • Claude Code in ActionAnthropic, Claude Academy
  • Introduction to Claude CoworkAnthropic, Claude Academy
  • Introduction to Responsible AI
  • GovStack Workflow Building BlockGovStack
  • GovStack Digital Registries Building BlockGovStack

Languages

  • Arabic Native
  • English Fluent
  • German Some

Away from screens: fishing, camping, swimming, tennis, karate, long drives and travelling.