Summary
Mohamed Talaat is a fintech-focused technology leader and Chief Engineering Officer at Fawry with over 16 years of experience designing and delivering electronic payments platforms. He progressed through architecture and engineering roles at Fawry—from Advisory Software Engineer to Chief Software Architect—and now leads engineering strategy and integrated solution design for one of Egypt’s largest EBPP providers. Combining industry practice with academia, he is an Assistant Lecturer and PhD student at Cairo University researching NLP, deep learning and speech processing, which informs his interest in applying ML and generative AI to financial services. Known for bridging technical and business stakeholders, he specializes in secure, scalable architectures and operational efficiency in high-stakes payment systems. Notably, his career blends hands-on Java/JEE engineering experience (including a stint at Visa) with strategic leadership across product, architecture, and research.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Information Technology, Master of Science (MSc), Information Technology at Cairo University
Secondary Degree, Excellent, Secondary Degree, Excellent at El Kobba Military School
English, Arabic