Full-stack engineer and startup builder with 8+ years shipping cloud-native, mobile, and AI-driven platforms. I architect high-availability systems for banks and telcos, and I take products from zero to first revenue.
I'm Muhammad — a full-stack engineer and startup builder based in Cairo. Eight-plus years shipping cloud-native, mobile, and AI-driven platforms, with a track record of architecting high-availability systems for major banking institutions and taking products from zero to first revenue.
Today I'm Founding Engineer at Guavo, an AI-powered event planning platform serving top-tier corporations in New York City. Before that, Solutions Architect for AI / Cognitive at Etisalat (e&), CTO at Luzedo, and Application Architect at Vertical Business Solutions — where I designed the SWIFT PACS / ISO 20022 Instant Remittance System for Banque Misr.
I started in the IBM Customer Innovation Center as a Hyperledger Fabric practitioner, earned an IBM Author Badge for the learning material I delivered, and have been quietly compounding craft across FinTech, Telco, and AI ever since.
Off the keyboard
Avid reader of technology and science — the kind of books that earn a second pass. I keep audio engineering and DSP as a serious off-hours craft, and I play more electric guitar than I should probably admit. My taste in music is settled: rock and metalcore, with the 2005 era standing, unarguably, as the genre's high-water mark.
Kubernetes, Azure, distributed systems. Producer/Consumer with MQ, Operator SDK, GoCD CI/CD.
TypeScript across the stack — React, React Native, NestJS. Java/J2EE roots for DDD work.
AI workflows in production, Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum, GraphDB and workflow engines.
2024 — Present · Founding Engineer · Guavo
AI-powered event planning platform — the first "Event OS" of its kind. Built from scratch, landed 10 NYC corporate accounts in the first year.
2020 — 2023 · Application Architect · Vertical Business Solutions
SWIFT PACS / ISO 20022 remittance system designed for high availability and horizontal scalability. Producer/Consumer over MQ, J2EE DDD with Query-DSL aggregates.
2020 — 2023 · Application Architect · Vertical Business Solutions
Business continuity suite listed on the IBM Asset Directory. Synchronizes, archives, and exports data across IBM BPM/BAW, DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
2023 — 2024 · Chief Technology Officer · Luzedo
Mobile application empowering the visually impaired. Owned technical vision, PoC phases, IT governance, and the investor narrative.
2022 — Present · Senior Technical Architect · Gigster
Healthcare workflows over Hyperledger Fabric on Kubernetes for a top US healthcare provider — including a Kubernetes application-aware system built with Operator SDK.
For founding-team work, architecture engagements, or a quick second opinion — the door is open. I read every note.