1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?
He has a techno-business background. He worked as a developer at XXXX (SAP ERP, migration, Linux), then did an MBA to see delivery from the business side. At XXXX (2016 – 2018) he led DevOps, AWS and CI/CD delivery, managing a team of 30 on cloud migrations for 7 to 8 clients. At XXXX (2019 – 2024) he was product manager for the mobile app, working with a team of 8. He unified several separate mobile apps into one React Native app on the App Store and Google Play, now used by about 1 million people per day. He delivered remotely from India and travelled to Doha when needed. At XXXX (2024 – present), he took an AI-native SaaS platform from idea to market. He chose the tech stack and positioning, and it is used by about 20,000 people globally. He has nine people reporting to him, including test, design, backend, cloud and operations engineers.
2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?
His strength is hands-on technology leadership, spanning enterprise technology leadership (a slow, government-linked media organisation) and fast startup decision-making. He can advise founders on digital strategy and how much to spend on technology, and also work with the most junior engineers. He takes a business-driven view, so that technology serves business goals. His skills cover product ideation, tech stack decisions, product management, DevOps and delivery. He knows agile, scrum and waterfall, and is a certified scrum product owner.
