Senior Software Engineer specializing in Secure AI Systems
Twelve years of building software where failure is expensive: senior engineering at one of the UAE's largest private groups, a freelance practice, built mostly on referrals, securing national government platforms, banks and global pharma and delivering AI work for two leading AI labs, and now re-architecting production software for the energy industry. I train, ship and run AI systems end to end, and I publish the numbers.
My rule is simple: if it isn't measured, it isn't done.
Prompting is syntax. Shipping is evidence.
Discover MeI build software the way security people think: assume it will be attacked, measure everything, and trust nothing you have not tested. From [national government platforms] to [leading AI labs] to [bird-song models for science,] I ship systems that hold up when it matters, and leave the {demo-ware} behind.
What I build with
AI & ML
Python
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Hugging Face
CUDA
Local LLMs
LangChain
scikit-learnCloud & DevOps
AWS
Google Cloud
Kubernetes
Terraform
Docker
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
Helm
Linux
GrafanaProduct & Data
TypeScript
React Native
Next.js
Node.js
FastAPI
Django
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Redis
FirebaseGovernment · frontier AI · finance · travel
Senior Software Engineer · 2026 to now
Building SmartPAD, the digital completions recorder and cloud platform used by ExxonMobil and other leading oil and gas operators. Led its move from a monolith to a modular architecture so the team ships faster.
Senior Software Developer · 2021 to 2024
Engineering at one of the UAE's largest privately held groups, home to more than 200 brands including Toyota, Lexus and IKEA.
Freelance · Top Rated
Top Rated on Upwork, and active on Freelancer.com and Fiverr, though most of my freelance work comes by referral: software, AI and security projects worldwide, mostly under NDA.
Leading AI lab · freelance via Scale AI
Evaluation and red-teaming for frontier models: comparing large language models head to head, writing adversarial prompts and expert reference answers.
Leading AI lab · freelance via Mercor and Stellar
Expert review for a frontier assistant: grading responses for helpfulness and truthfulness, and checking code and technical reasoning.
STELLARNational government · freelance security
Security assessments and vulnerability remediation for national education systems used by schools, teachers and students across the UAE.
National government · freelance security
Assessments and remediation for Ministry of Interior systems, held to national security standards, where finding the hole first is the whole job.
National government · freelance security
Security work on Tasheel, the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation's service platform for work permits and labour services.
International airport · mobile app
A hybrid iOS and Android app for travellers: reach airport services, call a porter and order from restaurants, all from one place.
Largest crypto exchange · security
Smart contract audits and security reviews for projects launching on the world's largest exchange.
Major UAE bank · security
Full assessment, incident response plan, continuous monitoring and staff training.
Global pharma · security
Assessment across networks, applications and endpoints, and a regulation-ready policy update.
My father left banking to open his own computer store, so I grew up surrounded by machines. I got my first PC at six and spent hours on it: installing operating systems, hunting down drivers, playing every game I could find, and poking around in DOS just to see what the machine would do. It started a lifelong habit: take it apart and find out how it works.
C:\> cd GAMES C:\GAMES> dir /w C:\GAMES>
At eight, computer class introduced GW-BASIC, and I fell in love with the idea that I could build anything I could imagine. Then my brother built the website for my father's store, and I was fascinated. I learned by watching him, made my first site in FrontPage, picked up HTML and CSS from it, then moved on to desktop apps in Visual Basic.
10 PRINT "I CAN BUILD THIS" 20 GOTO 10 RUN
At twelve, the internet cafe near home ran software that capped your time and speed. I found a way around it, and instead of using it, I told the owner. He reported it to the developers, they rewarded him with free licenses, and he handed me a cash reward. I was hooked. Breaking things to make them safer became my favourite hobby.
At fourteen I entered a competition to design my school's logo and won a laptop. That turned into graphic design freelancing on 99designs as a teenager: real clients, real briefs, and enough pocket money to buy an Xbox. My first taste of freelancing, years before Upwork.
Graduated in Computer Science with a cybersecurity major and joined XD Solutions as a software engineer: web and mobile products for real clients, real deadlines and real users, four years of learning how software actually ships.
From the start, freelance work ran alongside the day job. Some came through Upwork, where I am Top Rated, and through Freelancer.com and Fiverr, but most were private projects that came by word of mouth, many of them on site in other countries. Once I had delivered security work for national government entities and a global pharma company, the rest came easily: a major bank, smart contract audits for the largest crypto exchange, two years on AI projects for two leading AI labs, and a lot of client projects. The work took me to 14 countries.
Promoted to Senior Software Engineer at XD Solutions: designing architecture, reviewing code, mentoring engineers and taking products from first spec to production and beyond.
An MBA specialising in Information Technology and Information Systems: how organisations buy, run and secure the systems engineers build.
Senior Software Developer at Al-Futtaim Group, one of the UAE's largest privately held groups, whose businesses span Toyota, Lexus, IKEA and more. Systems where thousands of people depend on the work every day.
Moved to Calgary and joined Gatestone & Co as a Business Analyst. Worked with multiple clients to map and improve their processes, and brought in the right technology to make the changes stick, with a developer's eye for what can actually be built.
Built Zexa's AI Director Camera: it watches a live performance and directs it like a TV crew, switching angles, adding transitions and highlighting soloists in real time. Zexa received a grant from the National Research Council Canada to support emerging artists and performers.
Building SmartPAD, a digital completions recorder and cloud platform that turns live frac-site sensor data into a digital twin of the well pad, for ExxonMobil and other leading oil and gas operators. In my first months I led its move from a monolith to a modular architecture, so the team can ship faster with less risk.
Most client work is under NDA. This is the work I can show.
My recent open-source work
Contributions to the open-source community
Results anyone can rerun
Writing
Volunteer and board work
Volunteer ML · Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Improving the models that recognise birds by their songs, starting with the data: cleaning mislabelled and noisy clips, augmenting audio with time and pitch shifts, background-noise mixing and spectrogram masking, and rebalancing rare species. Better data made the models recognise species more reliably, helping researchers follow migration patterns and flag possible new species.
Board of Directors · Canadian charity
Children's Design International Collection: the charity that collects, preserves and archives children's artwork and writing, from the 1940s to today, for research and for the public.
cdic-cide.org ↗AI & cybersecurity · pro bono
AI development and cybersecurity for Quality and Safety Standards Accreditation Canada, an international accreditation body working in more than 25 countries: AI tools that speed up the work, and security reviews that keep accreditation data safe.
qssac.org ↗Degrees, certificates and skill badges
Builder at work, builder at home
First hardware project
My uncle, an electrical engineer, wanted his saltwater aquarium to look after itself. Together we added sensors, switches and a camera so he could monitor it, control it and feed his fish from anywhere while travelling. It kicked off a long run of Raspberry Pi and Arduino builds.
An avid gamer since the first PC. These days it's Overwatch, whenever I get the time.
Woodworking, 3D printing, soldering and DIY projects. If it can be built, I want to build it.
Raspberry Pi and Arduino projects around the house, from sensors to small automations.
Puzzles, bugs, broken gadgets. I like problems that don't give up easily.
Long walks in nature and fishing whenever the weather allows. Calgary makes that easy.
Time with family comes first, and we just welcomed a baby, so I'm learning a whole new kind of on-call.