Summary
Mahmoud Abduljawad is a Digital Product Manager and systems-minded technologist with 16 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, products, and digital transformations across UAE government and private sectors. He co-founded Masaar and progressed from lead product developer to systems architect, blending hands-on engineering (Python, PHP, Ruby, C#, SQL/NoSQL) with product strategy, BRDs, MVPs, and delivery leadership. At IKLIX and Digital Next UAE he led supply-chain and government portal transformations that centralized dashboards, enforced data governance, and cut manual overhead. Comfortable across Windows, GNU/Linux and macOS administration and all layers from APIs to mobile, he combines entrepreneurial grit with pragmatic architecture decisions across AWS/GCP/Azure. Notably, his career began in game and graphics programming in 2001, a background that seeded a lifelong curiosity for diverse technologies and system-level thinking.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Diploma, Islamic Financial Studies, Higher Diploma, Islamic Financial Studies at Emirates Institute for Banking and Financial Studies
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA at Swiss School of Management
Arabic, English