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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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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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Mohamed Fouda

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Tech builder and investor. Building financial products for Muslims all over the world Researcher and Engineer interested in hardware, crypto and innovative technologies

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Mohamed Moshrif

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Engineering leader and Principal Engineer with 23+ years building, scaling and operating large-scale distributed systems, payments platforms, SRE organisations and AI/ML infrastructure across Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Booking.com, Deliveroo and startups. I operate at the intersection of architecture, execution, reliability, product, business and organisational leadership. I can go deep technically with Staff/Principal engineers, lead managers and multi-team organisations, and translate complex engineering decisions into business outcomes executives can act on. My work has spanned SQL Server internals, Halo 4 multiplayer/networking, Amazon marketplace and vendor data pipelines, Booking.com growth platforms, Deliveroo observability/DBRE, and Google LLM infrastructure supporting products such as Gemini, Bard, YouTube, Search and Ads. I have led systems handling billions of requests per day, re-architected global ingestion pipelines, improved throughput by 3000x, reduced data freshness from 24h to 1h, cut infrastructure OpEx by millions per year, and led reliability work against 99.99%+ availability targets, created initiatives that served more than 16K full time employees and initiated projects that saved billions of dollars per year. I am strongest in high-ambiguity environments where the problem is not just “write software”, but work out what should be built, why it matters, what trade-offs are acceptable, how the organisation needs to operate, and how to create durable mechanisms rather than heroic one-off fixes. Core strengths: - Distributed systems, platform architecture, SRE, observability and AI/ML infrastructure - Engineering leadership across managers, senior ICs and multi-team organisations - Technical strategy, modernisation, operating models and delivery governance - Executive alignment across Product, Finance, Architecture, Commercial and C-suite stakeholders - Cost optimisation, reliability improvement and scalable engineering practices - Mentoring, coaching and raising the engineering bar across teams and organisations I have also mentored thousands of engineers, leaders and entrepreneurs 1:1, reached millions through videos, talks and articles, and spoken internationally on AI, infrastructure and engineering leadership. I am currently building Builvero, an AI-native platform focused on assessing real-world capability beyond interviews and CVs, closing the gap between learning and professional execution, and creating higher-signal pathways for digital talent.

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