Engineering Manager · Dubai, UAE
Building teams that ship great software.
Engineering leader with 10+ years across mobile and platform engineering — directly leading a squad of 12 engineers with influence across 5 squads, owning a portfolio of ~10 consumer financial products serving 1M+ users. Focused on high-performing teams, data-driven delivery, and AI as a genuine force multiplier.
Dubai, UAE
↓53%
Reduction in P1/P2 production incidents
↓66%
Reduction in squad operational load
+20%
Activation & conversion uplift on key products
1.5M+
Users across consumer financial products
Expertise
What I do
Engineering Leadership
Directly leading 12 engineers with influence across 5 squads. Building high-performing, accountable cultures across distributed teams spanning 7 countries — through coaching, hiring, and clear career development.
Mobile & Platform Engineering
10+ years hands-on across Flutter, .NET, Xamarin, and Android Native. Led full framework migrations, modular architecture design, and platform modernisation for consumer-facing fintech products at scale.
Engineering Effectiveness
Implementing DORA metrics, capacity frameworks, and delivery dashboards that give leadership real visibility into engineering load. Translating raw data into executive insight and team-level coaching.
Security & Quality
Introduced SAST/DAST, PR standards, branching strategies, TDDs/RFCs, and standardised RCA processes. 85% test automation coverage achieved via TDD. Release train cadence lifted frequency by 60%.
AI adoption
AI isn't a tool I use.
It's how I work.
It's how I work.
I've moved past surface-level AI usage. I embed GitHub Copilot and Claude AI across my teams to lift productivity and code quality, build MCP-integrated engineering dashboards, and automate reporting workflows that used to take days. I treat AI as a genuine productivity layer — not a novelty — and actively coach my teams to do the same.
Team embeddingRolled out GitHub Copilot and Claude AI across engineering squads, reducing manual toil and lifting code quality at scale
Live dashboardsBuilt DORA metrics and sprint dashboards powered by live Jira and Azure DevOps data via AI-integrated tooling
Automated reportingGenerated vendor performance reviews and CapEx/OpEx reports directly from real ticket data — at scale
Personal projectsShipped FuelOS — a personal health dashboard integrating WHOOP OAuth, food logging, and macro tracking
Stack
Technologies
Mobile & Platforms
Flutter
.NET / C#
Xamarin
Android Native
Dart
Java
Cloud & DevOps
Azure
AWS
GCP
CI/CD
Jenkins
Azure DevOps
Firebase
Engineering Effectiveness
DORA Metrics
LinearB
Jira
Confluence
Capacity Planning
AI & Tooling
GitHub Copilot
Claude AI
MCP Integrations
Cursor
LLM workflows
Experience
Career
Jul 2023 — Present
Engineering Manager
Fintech · Payments & Value Added Services · Dubai
- Directly lead 12 engineers; engineering-wide influence across 5 squads and ~10 consumer products serving 1M+ users
- 53% reduction in production incidents in 6 months via PR standards, branching strategy, TDDs/RFCs, and standardised RCA
- 66% reduction in operational load through systematic technical debt resolution and task automation
- +20% activation, +20% conversion, and 42% reduction in customer contact rate on Money Transfer
- Introduced org-wide capacity framework and delivery dashboards — first-ever transparent view of engineering load for leadership
- Applied Domain-Driven Design and event storming to break down a legacy monolith into well-defined domains
- Embedded GitHub Copilot and Claude AI across the team, lifting productivity and reducing manual toil
- Introduced CapEx/OpEx calculation framework for engineering, enabling accurate investment reporting across squads
Jan 2023 — Jun 2023
Senior Software Engineer
Fintech · Mobile & Platform Engineering · Dubai
- Led migration of flagship mobile app from Xamarin to .NET for Android and iOS, impacting 1M+ users
- Architected modular Flutter platform with clean layer separation, enabling reusable shared capabilities
- Achieved 85% test automation coverage via TDD; release train lifted frequency by 60%
Jul 2021 — Jan 2023
Principal Software Engineer
IFS · Sri Lanka · C#, Xamarin, Android, UWP
- Led cross-platform component development in C# across Xamarin Android and UWP
- Managed a distributed team across Sri Lanka, UK, and Sweden
- Introduced security improvements including rooted device detection and new auth flows
Jul 2014 — Jul 2021
Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer
IFS · Sri Lanka · C#, Android, Xamarin, Cordova
- Led development of core client framework in C# and Xamarin across Native Android and multiple platforms
- Implemented OpenID authentication across platforms
- Reduced production defects through structured code review and engineering standards
Education
Academic background
Masters of Business Administration
Cardiff Metropolitan University
2018 – 2021
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) — Software Engineering
University of Westminster
2011 – 2014
National Best Quality Software Award 2014
Merit Award for Indoor Navigation System
Writing
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Engineering · AI & Leadership
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AI Across the Full Engineering Stack. From Code to the C-Suite.
A practical look at AI's impact across building, debugging, documentation, and engineering leadership — from someone who's been in the middle of it. Where I've seen the most unexpected value, and what it means for the tools we build and buy.
Engineering · AI and Planning
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AI Is Breaking Story Points. Here's What to Measure Instead.
Why your velocity looks strange after AI adoption — and why that's not a bad sign. A simple theory on what's actually happening to your estimates, and which metrics will tell you the truth about your team's output.
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