Karim Saikali
Global Train Delivery at Université Saint-Joseph
United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolKarim Saikali is a seasoned technology leader with over two decades of experience driving large-scale IT and digital transformation across cloud, enterprise architecture, and product roles. Currently leading Global Train Delivery at AWS and serving as an Assistant Professor at Université Saint-Joseph, he blends operational rigor with academic depth and a PhD-level research background from Ecole centrale de Lyon. His career spans strategic CTO positions at startups and principal program management at Amazon, demonstrating an ability to scale engineering organizations and delivery frameworks in both startup and hyperscale environments. Karim’s roots in enterprise consulting and product management give him a rare fluency in aligning customer-facing products with robust platform engineering. Based in the UAE, he is comfortable navigating multicultural, distributed teams and complex stakeholder ecosystems across EMEA and beyond. An understated differentiator is his consistent thread of academic engagement alongside hands-on leadership, which keeps his practice grounded in research-informed approaches.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Lebanese University - Faculty of SciencesMaster's degree, Master's degree at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de LyonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Ecole centrale de Lyon
French, English, Arabic
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Github Skills (19)
mojo7
prototyping5
apollo5
sdk5
testing5
python5
console5
admin5
rapid4
graphql3
ios3
graphql-api3
graphql-client3
server-core2
graphql-schema2
Github contributions (5)
scriptrdotio/libraries
Jun 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:220 commits, 215 pushes in 2 years 2 months
python
scriptrdotio/zoho
Feb 2017 - Oct 2021
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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