Amr Essam
Co-Founder & CTO at SPICE
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolAmr Essam is a pragmatic engineering leader and founder with eight years of experience building secure, compliant fintech and proptech platforms across the UAE and Saudi markets. As Co-Founder & CTO of Ghanem he owns end-to-end product and infrastructure work, shipping a Java/Spring Boot stack on GCP with bank and payment integrations for fractional real estate. He previously led platform and connections teams at Lean Technologies, achieving near-perfect availability for open banking integrations and designing API-first systems that meet regulatory requirements. Comfortable reversing legacy systems and diving into cryptography, he pairs hands-on coding with systems design and operational rigor, including CI/CD, observability, and automated compliance checks. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambiguous regulatory and infra constraints into repeatable engineering processes that scale. Based in Dubai, he mixes startup grit with a security-first background from a digital security degree and practical experience integrating with central banks and large banking institutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor's Degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at University of Wollongong in Dubai
English, Arabic, French, Somali
Github Skills (80)
vala10
duckdns10
dreamhost10
mediaprojection10
frida10
instrumentation10
dyndns10
gauge10
noip10
namecheap10
gotify10
docker10
speedometer10
charts9
golang9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
leantechnologies/integration-snippets
Feb 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 14 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year
lean
amroessam/vgauge
Feb 2019 - Aug 2020
A wrapper library for GaugeJS
Contributions:4 releases, 55 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 6 months
vuejschartsspeedometerjavascriptgaugejs
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