Experience & leadership

Founder-level ownership across product, platform, AI, and operations.

I work between business intent and production reality: shaping the product, making the architecture decisions, directing agent-native implementation, and staying accountable through launch.

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Dubai · Open to global remote, freelance, fractional, and permanent roles

Where I add the most value

Roles where judgment and range matter.

Product & platform leadership

Technical Product Lead, Platform Product Lead, Head of Product Systems, or founder-facing product and technology ownership.

AI solutions & agent-native delivery

AI Solutions Architect, AI Product Lead, or delivery leadership that needs practical agents, workflows, evaluations, and production controls.

Forward-deployed & transformation work

Customer-facing roles that translate messy workflows into scoped systems, integrations, rollout plans, adoption, and measurable operational change.

Career

A career built across the full product cycle.

Discovery, commercial context, solution design, architecture, implementation, launch, support, and operating ownership.

2022—presentTopolo Technology

Founder · Product, Platform & AI Systems Lead

Founded and continue to lead a reusable Cloudflare-native product platform spanning shared identity, permissions, application discovery, billing boundaries, developer tooling, AI workflows, operational products, and platform governance.

Own product direction, architecture, application boundaries, prioritization, and production-readiness decisions.
Built a platform foundation represented by 44 documented public application surfaces, without presenting every surface as equally mature.
Standardized auth, shared UI/runtime packages, service permissions, SDK/CLI access, deployment contracts, documentation evidence, and staged rollout practices.
Run an agent-native delivery model using Codex, Claude Code, and MCP while retaining human ownership of specs, review, tests, deployments, observability, and rollback decisions.

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2014—2026Fresh Ventures · Livefreshr · JustCook · JustFeed

CTO · Product & Operations Systems Lead

Owned the customer products and operational systems behind subscription food, ordering, kitchen production, delivery, mobile experiences, support, analytics, and retention.

Connected customer acquisition, subscriptions, ordering, payments, fulfilment, delivery, support, and reporting into supportable operating flows.
Shipped customer web, Flutter mobile, and kiosk experiences with payments, identity, notifications, and operational administration.
Led product, vendor, team, delivery, reliability, and commercial trade-offs across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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2019—2021Cvent

TPP Partnerships Manager · Mid-Market Sales Manager

Led full-cycle SaaS sales and solution design for event-management technology across the Middle East, moving into regional ownership of the third-party planner segment within six months.

Ran structured discovery with agencies, venues, and enterprise event teams to map workflows, integration needs, and commercial value.
Built buyer-specific demos, proposals, and executive narratives across event registration, sourcing, onsite experience, and reporting.

2013—2016XpertLearning

Solutions Consultant · Delivery Lead

Delivered enterprise learning, talent, and HR technology from requirements and solution design through configuration, integrations, training, launch, and post-release improvement.

Led RFP responses, stakeholder workshops, implementation plans, and customer rollouts.
Bridged platform capability, enterprise requirements, and delivery constraints with hands-on implementation work.

Working range

Deep enough to build.
Broad enough to lead.

Product & delivery

Product strategy, roadmaps, PRDs, user journeys, acceptance criteria, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, demos, rollout, and operating cadence.

Platform & architecture

Multi-tenant SaaS, identity, permissions, payments, service boundaries, data models, APIs, application catalogs, shared runtimes, and developer tooling.

AI & agents

Agent orchestration, MCP, structured outputs, RAG, tool calling, evaluations, human approval gates, cost and latency controls, tracing, and production policy.

Cloud & implementation

TypeScript, React, Next.js, Astro, Vue, Flutter, Node, Cloudflare Workers, D1, KV, R2, Queues, Durable Objects, Vectorize, CI/CD, and observability.

Solutions & transformation

Discovery, requirements workshops, demos, solution narratives, integration planning, CRM, RevOps, workflow automation, adoption, and executive communication.

Commercial & operations

Founder support, sales, partnerships, vendor selection, operating systems, support workflows, product metrics, risk registers, and cross-functional decision-making.

Recruiting?

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One complete CV, plus four focused versions for the few role families that genuinely need different emphasis.

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