PRODUCT · PROJECTS · SECURITY · ENGINEERING
I plan products, ship them, and break them before attackers do.
10+ years leading product and delivery across healthcare, fintech, education, sports tech, and enterprise IT — based in Baghdad, working across Iraq, the UAE, and the wider MENA region.
// 01 — WHAT I DO
Three disciplines, one operator.
// 02 — WORK
Shipped, secured, and in production.
9 selected projects across product, security, and engineering. Filter by discipline.
PadelOps
Founder & Product Lead — product, engineering, mobile
Iraq's #1 padel sports management platform — mobile app, live tournaments, matchmaking, and VAR replay.
- Flutter
- Django
- MySQL
- Firebase FCM
- Contabo / Plesk
Magic Group Rep System (SFMS)
Engineering & Delivery — backend, mobile, ERP
Sales Force Management System for medical reps visiting doctors across Iraq — GPS tracking, offline sync, and a manager dashboard.
- Laravel
- Flutter
- MySQL
- Firebase FCM
Elaf Factory ERP
Product & Engineering
Enterprise resource planning platform for a manufacturing operation.
- Laravel
- MySQL
Serbian Embassy — Application Center Software
Security & Engineering
Consular application-center software for the Serbian Embassy — secure visa application intake and processing, built and hardened end to end.
- Secure web app
- Encryption
- Access-control auditing
Modares — Penetration Test
Lead Penetration Tester
Full penetration test of an education platform across black-box, white-box, and load-testing phases, with remediation verification.
- Black-box
- White-box
- Load testing
- +1
House of Beauty — Luxury Cosmetics E-commerce
Engineering & Mobile
Enterprise ordering and inventory platform for a luxury cosmetics brand with a 12,000+ product catalogue.
- Laravel 11
- MySQL
- Flutter
- +2
Baghdad AutoShow — Registration & Smart Voting
Product & Engineering
Vehicle self-registration, QR check-in, and geo-fenced QR voting platform for a live automotive exhibition.
- Laravel
- MySQL
- Livewire
- +1
Dr.Cube — Medical Education Platform
Product
Iraq's leading medical education platform — structured courses, video lectures, and exam prep used by thousands of students.
- Product Strategy
- Roadmapping
Marina Hospital & Scientific Bureau Systems
Project Manager
Tailored management systems delivered as Project Manager at Mijeser Group.
- Project Management
- Agile
// 03 — EXPERIENCE
A decade across industries.
Project Manager
Mijeser Group
Jun 2025 – Jun 2026·Baghdad, IraqHealthcare · Enterprise IT- Led delivery across Marina Hospital and the Scientific Bureau, coordinating IT teams to build tailored management systems.
- Defined scope, sprint plans, and milestones across multiple concurrent systems.
- Drove cross-organizational process improvements that tightened delivery cadence.
Product Manager
PresentAl-Mutah (Al-Hakak Group)
Nov 2023 – Present·Baghdad, IraqEnterprise Software- Shaped and executed product roadmaps with engineering and design using Agile.
- Gathered and prioritized market-driven requirements into a coherent backlog.
- Managed cross-functional software teams and consistent on-time releases.
Product Owner
Creative Advanced Technologies (CAT)
Oct 2022 – Nov 2023·Dubai, UAEEnterprise · International- Managed international projects via Jira and roadmaps, hitting KPIs across 100,000+ users.
- Led sprint planning, requirements, and UX collaboration with global teams.
- Acted as the primary bridge between business stakeholders and engineering.
Founder & Product Lead
PresentPadelOps
2022 – Present·Baghdad, IraqSports Technology- Built Iraq's #1 padel platform: mobile app, tournaments, matchmaking, and VAR replay.
- Grew to 300+ active players with live scoring and TV display mode.
- Own the product end to end — strategy, design, engineering, and deployment.
Business Development Manager
Magic Scientific Bureau
Mar 2021 – Sep 2022·Baghdad, IraqHealthcare · Pharma- Built strategic partnerships and drove digital transformation to expand market reach.
- Bridged commercial strategy with the technology roadmap for field-sales tooling.
IT Manager
AlWakeel Group
Nov 2018 – Mar 2021·Baghdad, IraqEnterprise IT · Travel- Managed IT across the URUK Booking System, Baghdad Airport Branch, BIAP Garage, and Holiday Baghdad.
- Owned infrastructure, systems, and operational reliability across business units.
Penetration Tester & Backend Developer
New Vision
May 2016 – Apr 2018·IraqCybersecurity · Government- Performed penetration testing on government systems.
- Identified and remediated critical vulnerabilities, then verified the fixes.
// 04 — SECURITY
Security-first product delivery
// selected engagements
- [+]Penetration testing of government systems
- [+]UNDP Iraq — penetration testing engagement
- [+]IBTIKAR — security audits
- [+]Modares — full penetration test across black-box, white-box, and load testing, with verified remediation
Security isn't a final gate for me — it's a design input. I thread threat modeling, least-privilege access, and server-side validation through every phase of delivery, then verify fixes instead of just filing findings. The result is product that holds up when real users, and real attackers, arrive.
// 05 — CAPABILITIES
Skills & tools.
Product & Delivery
- Product Strategy
- Roadmapping
- Agile & Scrum
- Business Analysis
- Stakeholder Management
- Team Leadership
- Digital Transformation
Tools
- Jira
- Confluence
- Figma
Security
- Penetration Testing
- Web / API Security
- Security Audits
- System Administration
- Burp Suite
- Nmap
- Metasploit
Engineering
- Laravel
- PHP
- MySQL
- Flutter (Riverpod, GoRouter)
- Firebase FCM
- REST APIs
- Tailwind CSS
- Linux
- Plesk / VPS deployment
AI
- AI Integration
- AI-assisted development
// 06 — ABOUT
Plan it, build it, break it.
I'm a product and project leader who never left the engineering room. For 10+ years I've shaped roadmaps, run delivery, and shipped software across healthcare, fintech, education, sports technology, and enterprise IT — then stress-tested it with the same adversarial eye I bring to penetration testing.
I founded PadelOps, Iraq's leading padel sports platform, and I've led international teams serving 100,000+ users. Whether the work is a hospital system, an ERP, a mobile app, or a security audit, I care about the same things: clear scope, honest timelines, and software that holds up when real users — and real attackers — arrive.
- Baghdad · Al-Mansour, Iraq
- Arabic — native · English — professional
- B.Sc. Computer Engineering — Baghdad College of Economic Sciences University (2018–2022)
- Works across Iraq, the UAE, and the wider MENA region