Technology Lead at justclean.Co-founder and CTO of mapdap.
Buried Games Studio
“I started Buried Games with a simple belief: games should be immersive, challenging, and respectful of the player’s time.”
We make our own games in Arabic and English, and we build games for clients across the GCC.
DeliveredClient work. Next.js and ESP32
An interactive floor game built for Q&R Media Services as the centrepiece of Heinz’s “Up the Taste” activation in Kuwait. Seven lit, pressure-sensing floor circles, each carrying a Heinz sauce flavour, sit in front of a screen set into a giant Heinz keystone wearing headphones. Step on the right circle in time.
Try the mechanic
The installation’s one rule, with a tap standing in for a step. Each hit shortens the next window. Three misses and it is over.
In developmentOriginal game. Browser and PC
A premium multiplayer Mafia game: real-time play, eleven unique roles, and a cinematic noir atmosphere. It rebuilds the hidden-culprits party format of Mafia and Werewolf for players across the Gulf and the wider Arab world.
ReleasedOriginal game. iPhone, built in Unity
Kout is the trick-taking card game of Kuwaiti diwaniyas. KoutQ8 rebuilds it for iPhone, with real-time multiplayer and an AI partner that actually bids.
ReleasedOriginal game. Any browser
A real-time Arabic trivia game, free to play. Its questions are written for a Gulf audience rather than translated for one.
ReleasedClient work. Any browser
The web home of a Discord fantasy community: more than 200 characters across 13 factions and a collectible card game with seven rarity tiers, in English and Arabic.
In developmentOriginal game. Unreal Engine
A top-down action arcade game that revives the maze-clearing spirit of the classic bomber games: drop bombs, blast open paths, and stay clear of your own blast radius.
And where it started: Gathered by the Light, a hand-crafted pixel-art platformer about a young moth crossing a dark forest to find a mysterious light.
I joined justclean as a senior iOS engineer in 2019, was promoted twice, and have led its technology since 2022.
2022 to now
I own the technical direction of justclean’s mobile ecosystem: the marketplace super app across its consumer, business and logistics targets, and the SaaS point-of-sale platform. A team of four engineers carries all of it, at more than 99.9% crash-free sessions in production.
I moved the company to contract-driven development with OpenAPI, so mobile and backend build in parallel against an agreed contract instead of discovering each other’s assumptions at integration. I replaced manual releases with CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates, and brought agentic AI workflows into daily engineering: feature work, code review and release automation.
Beyond the code, I designed the company’s Jira system end to end, ran its Scrum ceremonies including a period as acting Scrum Master, and stood up the customer-support stack, first on Zendesk and then through the migration to self-hosted Zammad.
2020 to 2022
Built the foundations the super app still stands on: a multi-target structure with environment isolation and secure key management, protocol-driven components shared across targets, and the full Apple platform surface, from App Clips, SiriKit and Widgets to iMessage, Apple Pay and Sign in with Apple. I interviewed, hired and onboarded the engineers who became the mobile team.
2019 to 2020
Joined to work on core mobile architecture, and built the SaaS point-of-sale app: offline-first on CoreData, with automated background batch synchronisation.
2025 to now
A hyperlocal social platform for iOS that I architected and operate as half of a two-person founding team. A SwiftUI app on a modular Swift-package core; more than thirty NestJS microservices on MongoDB and Redis, with real-time chat and presence; blue/green deployments on AWS behind Nginx, with Prometheus and Grafana watching all of it.
It includes a generative-AI content engine that puts Claude, GPT and Gemini behind a single abstraction, with an admin-tunable model registry.
2020 to 2023
Founder and technical lead. A pet-services platform built end to end: a Swift iOS app, a NestJS backend, payments, and AWS infrastructure with Jenkins CI/CD.
2018 to 2019
iOS engineer. Client iOS applications across several domains, alongside freelance full-stack work in Laravel.
