About
Product Manager at AYEN in Riyadh — leading six products across proptech and decision intelligence. Before product: a decade of engineering — backend systems, technical leadership, delivery for banks and governments, and a founded EdTech startup. Alongside the job: a small consulting practice with founders, and a long private study of how people think and decide.
I was settled — managing three family businesses with my father in Upper Egypt. I left that for Cairo and computer science, looking for work I loved that also sat right with my faith. The beginning was hard, and I already had a family counting on me.
I taught programming publicly before I ever had a title — a YouTube channel in the early days of the Arab developer community, and a hand in running its main gathering place. Publishing opened every door that mattered: my first product roles came from people who found my work, not my CV.
The rest of me: classical training in the sciences of Hadith at Al-Azhar, a running study of psychology (Yale’s Introduction to Psychology among it), Arabic poetry and Islamic history, and a bookshelf that keeps feeding all of it. I write in English and in Arabic — each as itself.
Advisory
Building is easier with someone who has built before. I work with a small number of founders and product teams alongside my full-time role.
Product direction for early founders
From an idea, a rough draft, or an AI-built prototype to a scoped, buildable product: discovery, a decisions log, API-verified specs, and prompts your builder can execute. This is how I run my current engagements.
AI-native product building
AI features grounded in your own data, taken from concept to working prototype — and an honest answer on what to build, what to buy, and what to defer.
Product operating systems
The knowledge base, decision logs, and AI-ready workspace that let your team — and its AI tools — work like one mind. I build and run these for every product I touch.
Technical direction when product needs it
System design, architecture reviews, and build-vs-buy calls, as a consulting CTO would. Not my lead offer — but a decade of engineering before product means the technical layer is never a black box in my engagements.
Interested? Let’s talk ↗