CV

Resume & CV.

Aug 2025
POSITION
Director of Software Engineering
Writer.com
London, UKAug 2025

Responsible for BUILD layer in WRITER - full-code and n8n pipelines no-code AI agents across 2 teams.

Leading across-engineering WRITER's effort for infra/devops for single-tennacy and multi-tenancy deployments for enterprise customers (e.g. Goldman Sachs, Cigna and Vanguard).

B2EAI AgentsEnterprise
2025
PUBLICATION
PancreaX: AI-driven diagnosis of pancreatic cancer
Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO)
PUBLICATION
AI-Driven Detection of Micro and Macro Metastasis of Cutaneous Melanoma
Laboratory Investigation
Mar 2024
POSITION
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
SpatialX AI
London, UKMar 2024 - Aug 2025

Leading SpatialX patent from concept to delivery: AI-powered Multi-Modal Annotation System and 5 other research papers.

Architected SpatialX's HiPAA and ISO 15189 compliance across the stack, frontend and backend, handson.

Architected and built SpatialX's AI engineering development and deployment strategy, handling traffic of up to 1+ million image-tiles/minute.

B2BHealthcare AICancer Detection
2024
PUBLICATION
AI-Powered Mapping of Eosinophil Distributions in Colorectal Cancer
Association of Pathology Informatics (API)
Apr 2022
POSITION
Head of Engineering
Noon: The Social Learning Platform
London, UKApr 2022 - Feb 2024

Responsible for owning and shipping Noon 2.0 - improving feature velocity 3.2x and cut AWS spend 72% via rightsizing.

Implemented performance calibration and growth ladders; attrition fell from 19% to 6%.

Team: Hired and led 4 engineering managers and 32 engineers across 4 time zones.

B2CB2BEdTech12M+ users
Jan 2020
POSITION
Founder and CTO
Alphazed
London, UKJan 2020 - Mar 2022

AI-led, language-agnostic platform for transforming any curriculum into its gamified digital twin.

Architected and launched 3 mobile apps with a multi-tenant infra.

Reached 500,000+ students with a zero marketing budget, within the first 13 months.

Team: Hired a team of 14 people: 9 engineers, 2 marketing, 1 business, 1 content.

B2CFounderAI/EdTech
May 2018
POSITION
Software Engineering Lead and DevOps
Neurofenix
London, UKMay 2018 - May 2021

Founding engineer. Delivered ISO 62304 Class-A medical device stack from concept to CE mark in 13 months.

My work led to 2 provisional patents on sensor-driven, rehabilitation via mobile and tablet devices.

Developed Damascani framework: an IoC/DI Spring Boot-like framework on top of Unity3D; cut feature lead time 80%.

Team: Hired and led a team of 5 members: 2 backend, 2 frontend and 1 DevOps.

B2CB2BMedTechISO 62304
2018
AWARD
Tier 1 Exceptional Talent
TechCity UK
London, UK2018

Endorsed by TechCity UK as an Exceptional Talent

Jun 2015
POSITION
Full Stack Software Engineer
Squla
Amsterdam, NetherlandsJun 2015 - Apr 2018

Developed and moved to prod Squla's first 3D game in my first month, played by more than 100K kids.

Co-built Squla's first WebSocket-based multiplayer learning game, handling 10,000+ concurrent players.

Only fullstacker working across platforms: mobile (C#, Unity3D), web (SPA, Jinja, backbone.js), backend (RESTful, python, flask, EC2).

B2CB2BEdTech6M+ users
2015
PUBLICATION
Active Learning for Player Modeling
FDG 2015
PUBLICATION
Towards generic models of player experience
AAAI 2015
2014
EDUCATION
MSc. Human-Computer Interaction and Ubiquitous Computing
Joseph Fourier University
Grenoble, France2014 - 2015
2013
PUBLICATION
Ropossum: An authoring tool for designing Cut the Rope levels
AAAI 2013
Jun 2012
POSITION
Machine Learning Researcher
IT University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, DenmarkJun 2012 - Jun 2015

Published 12 peer-reviewed papers (4 best-paper nominations) on procedural content generation and AI/ML.

My ai-powered creativity authoring tool, Ropossum, was featured in Game Developer Conference (GDC) and Gamasutra.

ResearchAI/MLPCG
2011
AWARD
Albasel Award for Academic Excellence
Damascus University
Damascus, Syria2011 - 2013

The most prestigious award for academic excellence three times in a row

2008
EDUCATION
BEng. (with Honors) in Information Technology Engineering and AI
Faculty of Information Technology Engineering
Damascus, Syria2008 - 2013