I'm Mahmoud — a Solution Architect with 20+ years of enterprise software, ERP and cloud across the UK, US, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. I've led teams of 25+ engineers, delivered national-scale platforms, and turned around accounts that were already on warning.
National infrastructure, telco at scale, and the unglamorous engineering that keeps it all upright.
The product I'm currently building at Nozom — a platform for managing governance, risk and compliance work end to end, with an API-first design and AI-assisted workflows layered on top.
grc.nozomtechs.saLed system implementation for the country-wide fan identity and ticketing portal, handling registration and match attendance for fans nationwide.
Co-led development for the Egyptian Ministry of Health under emergency timelines — the kind of deadline you don't negotiate with.
Led development of the customer self-service application used by millions of Vodafone Spain subscribers, plus Smart POS across Vodafone Germany's retail stores.
Took over a flagship engagement mid-crisis on an unfamiliar stack and drove it from a formal customer warning to documented positive feedback.
Repeatable migration pipelines mapping projects, tasks, people, time entries and time-off — built once, reused for every client onboarding.
Consolidated dev, staging and production across multiple departments, then wrote the deployment playbook — provisioning, release gates, rollback — that every team adopted.
MCP plugins, Claude-powered agentic workflows and n8n automations wired directly into ERP, data and back-office processes — designed to survive contact with production, not just demo well.
Developer tools that came out of being annoyed by something often enough to fix it.
See the stack your compose file actually declares.
Docker Compose files lie to you — overrides, includes and environment interpolation mean the file you're reading is rarely the config that runs. Composure resolves the whole stack, tells you which file and line set each value, and lets you edit without your formatting being rewritten underneath you.
Across the UK, US, Saudi Arabia and Egypt — from telco and government platforms to consultancies and product teams.
Lessons from delivery, architecture decisions I'd defend, and the occasional thing worth celebrating.
Agents that read your Odoo data are useful. Agents that act on it need a different kind of design discipline.
Jul 2026The most boring document I've ever written, and the one that saved the most time.
Jun 2026What I did in the first two weeks of a rescue engagement, in order — including the parts that were uncomfortable.
Architecture reviews, ERP and cloud delivery, or AI automation that survives contact with production. I read every email.