Technical Leadership & Architecture
Leading engineering teams, defining microservice boundaries with DDD, setting PR/design-review standards, and owning end-to-end delivery across product, platform, and infra.
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Engineering Leader | Microservices, Cloud Platforms & AI Integration
15+ years building cloud-native, domain-driven microservices and modern web platforms with .NET and Azure. I lead cross-functional engineering teams, design scalable distributed systems, run production workloads on AKS with robust CI/CD and GitOps, and ship AI-native features in production with Claude and OpenAI.
Software Development Manager
Technical Consultant
CTO
Services
Three engagements I take on most often — pick the one that fits.
Cloud-Native Platform Engineering
Designing and running production .NET workloads on Azure / AKS — GitOps with Argo CD, blue-green & canary deploys, autoscaling, secrets via Key Vault, and full-stack observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Learn moreAI Integration & Modernization
Embedding LLMs into enterprise workflows with Claude and OpenAI, and shipping faster with AI-native tooling — Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Modernising legacy .NET applications and rebuilding monoliths as event-driven microservices without taking the business offline.
Learn moreEngineering Principles
A handful of rules I keep returning to — earned the hard way.
Design for failure
Every dependency will fail eventually. Build timeouts, retries, and circuit breakers from day one — not after the first incident.
Domain-Driven Design first
Model the business, not the database. Bounded contexts keep services small, ownership clear, and changes local.
Make incidents cheap
Runbooks before launches. Dashboards before alerts. The on-call engineer should never have to read the code to recover.
Trunk-based development
Small batches, fast feedback. Long-lived branches are inventory — and inventory rots.
SLOs over uptime promises
Agree on what "good" looks like in measurable terms. Latency, error rate, freshness — then budget for it.
Zero-trust by default
Never trust the network. OAuth2, JWT, service-to-service auth, Key Vault for secrets, least-privilege RBAC everywhere.
Observability is not optional
Logs answer "what happened", metrics answer "is it bad", traces answer "where". You need all three.
Boring tech wins
Choose proven over shiny. Innovation tokens are precious — spend them where they create real differentiation.
Design for failure
Every dependency will fail eventually. Build timeouts, retries, and circuit breakers from day one — not after the first incident.
Domain-Driven Design first
Model the business, not the database. Bounded contexts keep services small, ownership clear, and changes local.
Make incidents cheap
Runbooks before launches. Dashboards before alerts. The on-call engineer should never have to read the code to recover.
Trunk-based development
Small batches, fast feedback. Long-lived branches are inventory — and inventory rots.
SLOs over uptime promises
Agree on what "good" looks like in measurable terms. Latency, error rate, freshness — then budget for it.
Zero-trust by default
Never trust the network. OAuth2, JWT, service-to-service auth, Key Vault for secrets, least-privilege RBAC everywhere.
Observability is not optional
Logs answer "what happened", metrics answer "is it bad", traces answer "where". You need all three.
Boring tech wins
Choose proven over shiny. Innovation tokens are precious — spend them where they create real differentiation.
Document the why
Code shows what; comments and ADRs show why. Future maintainers — including you — will thank you.
Automate the toil
If you do it twice, automate it. Engineering time is too expensive to burn on manual repetition.
Code reviews teach
Treat reviews as the team's daily learning loop, not a gate. Ask questions, share patterns, level everyone up.
Test in production safely
Feature flags, dark launches, canaries. Synthetic and chaos tests in prod beat lab-perfect staging that lies.
APIs are forever
Versioning, contracts, and deprecation plans matter more than the first design. Treat the API like a public commitment.
Shift left on security
SAST, DAST, IaC and dependency scanning belong in CI — not in a quarterly audit. OWASP-aligned by default.
Mentor relentlessly
A team you grow is a team that ships. Pairing, design huddles, and brown-bags compound faster than headcount.
Ship the smallest thing
The smallest change that's useful to the user. Optimise later — first prove the loop closes end to end.
Document the why
Code shows what; comments and ADRs show why. Future maintainers — including you — will thank you.
Automate the toil
If you do it twice, automate it. Engineering time is too expensive to burn on manual repetition.
Code reviews teach
Treat reviews as the team's daily learning loop, not a gate. Ask questions, share patterns, level everyone up.
Test in production safely
Feature flags, dark launches, canaries. Synthetic and chaos tests in prod beat lab-perfect staging that lies.
APIs are forever
Versioning, contracts, and deprecation plans matter more than the first design. Treat the API like a public commitment.
Shift left on security
SAST, DAST, IaC and dependency scanning belong in CI — not in a quarterly audit. OWASP-aligned by default.
Mentor relentlessly
A team you grow is a team that ships. Pairing, design huddles, and brown-bags compound faster than headcount.
Ship the smallest thing
The smallest change that's useful to the user. Optimise later — first prove the loop closes end to end.
Experience
15+ years across enterprise platforms in e-commerce, ports, fleet, CRM, and HRMS.
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Kinnarps Project Solutions L.L.C
Software Development Lead · Dubai
Leading a team of 6 delivering KPS Mart, an AI-enabled e-commerce and enterprise platform — designing cloud-native solutions on Azure & AWS, integrating OpenAI APIs, and enforcing architecture and engineering standards.
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Dubai Technologies L.L.C
Senior Software Developer / Technical Lead · Dubai
Led design and development of distributed enterprise systems in the port domain — RTLS (Real-Time Location System) and RORO (Roll-In/Roll-Out) — using .NET Core microservices, Angular, and Web APIs.
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Jacobsons Direct Marketing L.L.C
Software Developer · Dubai
Built the Freeways Incentive Management System for the fleet domain — scalable enterprise apps in AngularJS, ASP.NET Web API, and SQL Server.
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Truebell Marketing & Trading L.L.C
Software Developer · Dubai
Delivered the FCA CRM application — C#, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, optimized SQL schemas/procedures, and SSRS reporting + ETL.
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Extolution Software Pvt Ltd
Software Programmer · India
Contributed to Exenta HRMS — enterprise web apps in C#, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, REST APIs, and SQL Server across the full SDLC.
Education
Formal training that started it all.
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Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology
Anna University
Four-year programme covering software engineering, distributed systems, databases, and web technologies — the foundation for everything since.
Technology Stack
The technologies I work with day-to-day.
.NET Core
ASP.NET Core
C#
TypeScript
Angular
Node.js
Python
REST
GraphQL
OpenAI API
.NET Core
ASP.NET Core
C#
TypeScript
Angular
Node.js
Python
REST
GraphQL
OpenAI API
Azure
AWS
AKS
Kubernetes
Docker
Helm
Argo CD
Flux
NGINX Ingress
Azure Key Vault
Azure
AWS
AKS
Kubernetes
Docker
Helm
Argo CD
Flux
NGINX Ingress
Azure Key Vault
Azure DevOps
GitHub Actions
Git
RabbitMQ
Kafka
Redis
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Grafana
ELK / OpenSearch
Azure DevOps
GitHub Actions
Git
RabbitMQ
Kafka
Redis
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Grafana
ELK / OpenSearch
Azure SQL
PostgreSQL
SQL Server
MongoDB
OAuth2
JWT
Zero-Trust
DDD
Agile / Scrum
OWASP
Azure SQL
PostgreSQL
SQL Server
MongoDB
OAuth2
JWT
Zero-Trust
DDD
Agile / Scrum
OWASP
Claude Code
Claude (Anthropic)
OpenAI API
GPT-4 / GPT-4o
Codex
Cursor
GitHub Copilot
ChatGPT
Embeddings & RAG
Prompt Engineering
Claude Code
Claude (Anthropic)
OpenAI API
GPT-4 / GPT-4o
Codex
Cursor
GitHub Copilot
ChatGPT
Embeddings & RAG
Prompt Engineering
Latest Projects
Selected platforms I've led or built — across e-commerce, ports, fleet, CRM, and HRMS.
AI · E-Commerce
KPS Mart — AI-Enabled E-Commerce Platform
A multi-tenant e-commerce and enterprise platform for Kinnarps. Designed cloud-native services on Azure & AWS, integrated OpenAI for automation, and led a team of 6 to deliver and run it in production.
.NET Core
Angular
Node.js
Python
Azure
OpenAI
MongoDB
Distributed · IoT
RTLS — Real-Time Location System
Port-domain platform tracking assets and people across terminals in real time. Distributed .NET Core microservices, event-driven backbones, and an Angular operations console.
.NET Core
Microservices
Angular
TypeScript
SQL Server
Port Operations
RORO — Roll-In / Roll-Out System
Logistics orchestration for vehicle roll-in / roll-out operations at ports. REST APIs, workflow engines, and reliability hardening to keep terminals moving.
.NET Core
Web API
REST
PostgreSQL
SQL Server
Fleet · Incentives
Freeways — Incentive Management System
Fleet incentive programme with reporting, calculations, and back-office integration. AngularJS front-end with an ASP.NET Web API service tier on SQL Server.
AngularJS
ASP.NET Web API
REST
SQL Server
CRM · Reporting
FCA — CRM Application
CRM platform with custom workflows, SSRS reporting, and ETL pipelines. Designed schemas, stored procedures, and reports; tuned query performance across the application.
C#
ASP.NET MVC
Web API
SQL Server
SSRS
ETL
Let's build something solid
Actively exploring Software Development Manager, Technical Consultant, and CTO roles — full-time, fractional, or consulting engagements welcome.