The day role
Commercial Bank of Dubai
Group Leader, PBG Channel — Information Technology. Own the Personal Banking Group digital channels end to end — Mobile App and Online Banking — as the single technical owner for platform strategy, delivery, and run.
AED 5M CAPEX · AED 15M four-year TCO
In parallel
Powerscore
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer. Set the technical vision and own all engineering for a multi-tenant B2B SaaS analytics platform for the events and trade-show industry, taking it from concept to a production-ready product in partnership with the CEO and CMO on product and go-to-market.
Paying customers · A 2027 show already confirmed
Powerscore FZE, a product I own and run
Event Powerscore Index
Validate what you know. Discover what you don’t.
Performance intelligence for exhibition and trade-show organisers. EPI replaces post-show surveys and reports with a decision layer, turning the signals a show already produces into something a board, a portfolio director or an exhibition director can act on.
Six months from launch it is running on paid engagements with international exhibition organisers and contractors, and a client is already confirmed for a 2027 show.
6 months
From first pilot to paying customers
2027
A show already booked for next season
Near zero
Defects at release, across every deployment
GDPR
Compliant capture: responses are anonymous, tenants isolated
Built on Next.js, Postgres and Supabase, with AI in both the product and the engineering process.
The record
Every figure sits against the organisation it was delivered in.
- AED 5M
- Combined CAPEX across the Tier-1 programmes I lead, the bank's highest priority category
- Commercial Bank of Dubai
- 30,000
- Customers reached by Enriched Transaction, delivered to 100% of the mobile banking base
- Commercial Bank of Dubai
- 250,000
- System transactions a day during show hours, peaking above 5,000 concurrent requests
- Info Salons Middle East
- 80%
- Cloud cost removed, from USD 21K a month to AED 7–9K, through AWS migration and Terraform
- Info Salons Middle East
- Top 10
- Retail banking app in the UAE, built on the Mashreq digital channels I developed
- Mashreq, via Fabrick
Scope, over time
Budget and headcount carried at each step
December 2025 – Present
Group Leader, PBG Channel — Information Technology
CBD Bank (Commercial Bank of Dubai)
Own the Personal Banking Group digital channels end to end — Mobile App and Online Banking — as the single technical owner for platform strategy, delivery, and run.
Delivered Enriched Transaction to 100% of the RMB mobile banking base (~30
2025 – Present
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer
Powerscore LLC FZ — Event Powerscore Index (EPI)
Set the technical vision and own all engineering for a multi-tenant B2B SaaS analytics platform for the events and trade-show industry, taking it from concept to a production-ready product in partnership with the CEO and CMO on product and go-to-market.
Took the platform from pilots to paid engagements within six months of launch
March 2021 – November 2025
VP of Technology
Info Salons Middle East Pty L.L.C
Led the company's end-to-end digital transformation, overseeing IT, Digital, and Onsite departments (25 staff) and maintaining 99.9% service uptime across high-volume events handling over 250,000 system transactions daily, with peaks exceeding 5,000 simultaneous requests during show hours.
Cut cloud infrastructure costs by over 80%
October 2017 – March 2021
Technical Leader & IT Director
Fabrick (former Vipera MENA)
Led digital transformation initiatives for major UAE financial institutions, focusing on digital onboarding, payments, and KYC automation in alignment with UAE Central Bank compliance.
Launched and maintained high-performing mobile and branch banking platforms for multiple banks with 99.9% uptime and zero critical production failures.
February 2007 – October 2017
Senior Software Engineer
AC&D Solutions S.R.L.
Developed and launched multiple Mashreq Bank digital channels, including Mashreq Retail UAE, Mashreq NEO, Mashreq SME, and regional versions for Mashreq Egypt and Mashreq Qatar, contributing to the bank's multi-market digital transformation strategy.
Contributed to a retail mobile banking app ranked among the Top 10 in the UAE
Selected work
Event Powerscore Index (EPI)
AI-Powered Multi-Tenant B2B SaaS Event Analytics
AI-powered B2B SaaS analytics platform for the events and trade-show industry, taken from concept to production as co-founder and CTO of Powerscore.
CBD Personal Banking Digital Channels
Mobile App & Online Banking Platform Ownership
End-to-end technical ownership of Commercial Bank of Dubai's Personal Banking Group digital channels — the retail mobile app and online banking — including the bank's Tier-1 programme portfolio.
Mashreq UBO Platform
Tablet-Based Branch Onboarding Application
Unified onboarding platform for Mashreq Bank branches, built from the ground up with a team of five engineers, covering digital onboarding and KYC automation under UAE Central Bank compliance.
Kronos
SaaS Registration Platform
Enterprise SaaS application for creating and managing registration pages for exhibitions and events. Developed for Info Salons with an internal development team, featuring full DevOps integration and scalable architecture.
Cloud Migration & Optimization
AWS Infrastructure Transformation
Led comprehensive cloud migration and optimization initiative, migrating legacy infrastructure to AWS and implementing modern DevOps practices. Achieved 80% cost reduction and 40% faster release cycles.
Email Classifier
AI-Powered Email Management Tool
Intelligent automation tool built with N8N workflows that classifies emails, manages communications, and sends Telegram notifications for important messages. Designed specifically for C-Level executives.
Latest news
Technology, the exhibition industry, and what I read when I am not working.
GISEC opened at Expo City on 16 September, not at the World Trade Centre, and GITEX moves into the same halls in December. DWTC is relocating both of its flagship shows, and the September one landed first. That made a cybersecurity conference the live rehearsal for the bigger move, and it is not a small rehearsal: 25,000 professionals, 750 exhibiting brands and a new Cyber First summit pulling in ministers and central bank governors. Whatever the new venue got wrong, it got wrong in front of the least forgiving audience available, three months before the show that actually matters.
Source: GISEC Global, official event site
Not a customer-service chatbot: this is the core banking system, at a 99% source code generation rate. Sony Bank and Fujitsu report a 30% shorter development period and 40% fewer man-hours from basic design through integration testing, running Claude on Amazon Bedrock. The figure nobody publishes is the governance one. I take every production change through Permit to Build, Permit to Release and a Change Advisory Board, and how you evidence a 99% generation rate to a CAB is the question that decides whether the rest of it travels.
Source: Fujitsu and Sony Bank, joint press release
The world's largest tech show moves to Expo City for its 2026 edition, 7 to 11 December, after 45 years at the Dubai World Trade Centre. Having run the technology behind shows at this scale, the hard part is never the floor plan. It is registration, access control and network behaviour under peak load, in a venue with no operational history to calibrate against.
Source: GITEX Global
RBC has passed 200 AI models and its token consumption is up more than 500% in a year, while the Financial Sector Enterprise Cloud Index puts runaway token cost, shadow IT and data sovereignty at the top of the risk list. I once took a cloud estate down by over 80%. The discipline that makes that possible is exactly the one most AI programmes are currently skipping.
Source: Nutanix Financial Sector Enterprise Cloud Index