Summary
Salman Al-ghamdi is a product-focused software engineer and founder with 7 years of experience building merchant-facing products across leading MENA startups like Tamara, Sary, and Zid. At Zid he led the public launch and scaling of the Zid App, driving adoption to 15K active merchants, improving onboarding to same-day activation, and increasing conversion from 0.2% to 25%. He combines hands-on frontend engineering roots with product strategy—shipping theme stores that generated 300K SAR and building internal backoffice systems to boost operational efficiency. A KFUPM software engineering graduate, Salman also trains aspiring product managers and experiments with web, mobile, and game projects on GitHub. He’s passionate about shipping pragmatic products that balance user needs and business outcomes, and now runs his own venture focused on advisory and product innovation.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering, Second Honor, Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering, Second Honor at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals - KFUPM
Arabic, English