Summary
Mohammed Ghawanni is a Director of Engineering and former Co-founder & CTO with 10 years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native, and data-driven products across Saudi Arabia and globally. He has led engineering and delivery at startups and enterprises, driving cloud architecture, VSOC deployments, and cost-performance optimizations at Lucid Motors while also managing multi-squad agile delivery for large government digitalization projects. Comfortable hands-on from C/C++ telematics fixes to React/Vue frontends and Kubernetes/EKS pipelines, he blends technical depth with program-level coordination and vendor management. Mohammed’s background spans product engineering, technical program management, and founding leadership, giving him a practical lens for turning product roadmaps into repeatable delivery patterns. Based in Riyadh with an education from KFUPM and exchange experience at Lehigh, he pairs regional domain knowledge with international exposure. Outside engineering, he has a long-standing interest in creating impactful educational content and community events for students.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, 98%, High School, 98% at Al-Khandak National Schools
Student Exchange Program, Computer Science, Student Exchange Program, Computer Science at Lehigh University
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, 3.593, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, 3.593 at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals - KFUPM
English, Arabic