Global product leader · Dubai
Building payment products that scale across MENA.
Payments · Digital Wallets · Merchant Platforms · Market Expansion
A hands-on senior product leader turning complex market, regulatory and technical requirements into launch-ready fintech products across UAE, Egypt, Bahrain and Morocco.
From ambiguity to production
I own products end to end—from opportunity framing, strategy and roadmap through requirements, delivery, UAT, production readiness and post-launch governance. My work spans digital wallets, merchant payments, payment gateways, onboarding, pricing and back-office controls.
Three years inside Mastercard Payment Gateway Services built my technical depth in APIs, 3DS, tokenisation and live payment investigation. Today, I apply that foundation to multi-market product leadership, aligning Engineering, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Legal, Commercial, banks, processors and vendors around customer outcomes.
02 · Selected product impact
Real delivery examples from regulated markets. Expand any card for product and technical detail.
BAM-aligned KYC tiering, multilingual journeys and launch controls designed for local use and regulatory readiness.
MAD payment journeys covering ONEE, Maroc Telecom and ADM Autoroutes—from stakeholder discovery through production deployment.
Product creation, storefront, cart and checkout with payment experiences adapted to the Egyptian market.
Technical product expertise supporting enterprise merchants and acquirers across high-availability payment environments.
An internal AI-powered product operations platform for structured requirements, risk analysis and implementation planning.
A governed fee model spanning transaction and service pricing with validation before application.
03 · My MENA product footprint
Select a market to explore the product context.
04 · Career progression
Own strategy, roadmap and end-to-end delivery for wallet, merchant, payment and back-office capabilities across four MENA markets.
Regional technical product expert for enterprise merchant and acquirer integrations across EMEA.
Produced gateway implementation guidance translating architecture and API behaviour into actionable merchant enablement.
Owned complex enterprise support and customer development across MENA, feeding recurring platform gaps to Product and Engineering.
Drove product adoption and partner engagement by aligning travel technology with customer and regional market needs.
05 · Product leadership model
A full operating loop from market signal to measurable improvement.
06 · Capability ecosystem
Payment Gateways · Merchant Acquiring · Digital Wallets · Merchant Payments · Processing · Local Payment Methods
REST APIs · Mastercard MPGS · 3DS · Tokenisation · Postman · Splunk · SQL Basics
Strategy · Roadmaps · Discovery · PRDs · BRDs · Jira · UAT · Release Planning
KYC · KYB · AML · CBUAE · CBE · BAM · CBB · Auditability
CPO alignment · Engineering · Compliance · Risk · Operations · Legal · Commercial · Banks · Processors · Vendors
Jira
Confluence
Figma
Postman
Splunk
REST APIs
Agile / Scrum
07 · AI-augmented product leadership
I prototype controlled AI workflows for regulated product environments, using human-in-the-loop thinking, maker-checker controls and auditability to turn emerging capabilities into usable product operations.
08 · Foundation
Modern Academy · Cairo, Egypt
Graduation project: Smart Application for Computer Hardware and Accessories · Grade: ExcellentBuild the next chapter
Let’s talk about fintech platforms, digital wallets, product leadership or market expansion.