Summary
Maged Shalaby is a product leader and former engineer with 13 years of experience building data-driven consumer and health products, currently serving as Founding Product Manager at speek in London. He has a strong track record launching and scaling B2C apps and FinTech products—driving a subscription program to 100k users, growing prepaid card subscriptions to 50k, and delivering EHR and patient-facing platforms serving 12k patients with $500k ARR. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering, analytics, and strategy, he built core backends in Python/Django, led ML-driven recommender and lead-scoring systems, and introduced BI and experimentation to improve LTV and conversion. He excels at forming cross-functional teams and processes rapidly—growing teams to 17 and increasing delivery velocity and PM productivity through continuous discovery and OKR-driven prioritization. Adept at turning behavioral and transactional analytics into product decisions, he consistently finds new revenue streams such as marketplaces and subscription models. Trained in AI (KU Leuven) and grounded in practical software delivery, he blends academic depth with entrepreneurial execution.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Artificial Intelligence, Master’s Degree Artificial Intelligence at KU Leuven
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at The German University in Cairo
IGCSE, IGCSE at Egyptian Language School
Arabic, English