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Engineering Manager with 10+ years scaling cross-functional teams behind large-scale digital products — most recently leading delivery on TAMM, the digital backbone of Abu Dhabi.

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About

Engineering leadership
that ships.

Engineering Manager and Technical Lead with 10+ years growing cross-functional teams across Web, iOS, Android and QA. I focus on people, predictable delivery, and turning ambitious roadmaps into reliable releases. Most recently leading the squad behind TAMM — Abu Dhabi's flagship digital government platform — a product used by millions of residents and businesses.

Squad leadership
Web, iOS, Android and QA aligned around one delivery rhythm.
10+ years
Engineering and leadership across 5 companies and 3 cities.
Delivery & strategy
Hiring, mentorship, roadmap shaping, and architectural direction.
Government scale
Platforms used by millions of UAE residents and businesses.
Experience

A decade of shipping.

From individual contributor to engineering manager — leading cross-functional squads on national-scale platforms.

Sept 2025 – Present

Technical Lead

TAMM (Abu Dhabi Digital Authority)Abu Dhabi
  • Lead a cross-functional squad spanning Web, iOS, Android and QA — owning delivery, technical direction, and team health.
  • Drive predictability across releases through tighter sprint planning, structured retros, and clearer cross-platform coordination.
  • Coach engineers on system design, code quality, and architectural trade-offs; run regular 1:1s and growth conversations.
  • Run the squad's agile cadence end-to-end: planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives.
  • Partner with product and stakeholders to shape roadmap, surface trade-offs, and unblock dependencies across squads.
May 2021 – Aug 2025

Senior Software Engineer (Level 2) / Squad Lead

Xische & CoAbu Dhabi
  • Headed the front-end engineering team behind the TAMM portal — Abu Dhabi's flagship digital government platform serving millions of residents.
  • Grew and mentored the squad through a multi-year modernization from legacy Sitecore SXA into a React / Next.js stack.
  • Set the front-end architecture direction and the shared component library (Lerna monorepo) used by multiple squads.
  • Embedded Agile practices — sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives — that lifted delivery cadence and reduced cycle time.
  • Partnered with product and government stakeholders to translate digital strategy into roadmaps engineering could execute against.
  • Acted as the engineering voice on architecture and tech-stack decisions, steering long-term front-end modernization.
ReactTypeScriptNext.jsSASSLernaSitecore JSS
Feb 2020 – May 2021

Software Engineer

Digital14Abu Dhabi
  • Led the front-end revamp of TAMM's digital services, enabling unified citizen access to government services.
  • Built scalable, secure front-end solutions with ReactJS, CSS/SASS/Bootstrap, and Sitecore SXA — optimized via Google PageSpeed.
  • Integrated Google Analytics across platforms for behavior tracking and reporting.
  • Collaborated with multi-disciplinary teams across cross-agency initiatives — ADP, DOH, ADHA, ADDA.
ReactJSSASSBootstrapSitecore SXAGoogle Analytics
July 2018 – Feb 2020

Senior Software Engineer

ITworxAbu Dhabi
  • Delivered "My Locker" — a secure digital repository within TAMM for managing personal and official records.
  • Built microservices-integrated features using ReactJS, Node.js and .NET RESTful APIs in a cloud-ready architecture.
  • Applied Agile principles in delivery cycles with a strong focus on quality, testing and UX.
ReactJSNode.js.NET
July 2016 – July 2018

Software Engineer

ITworxCairo
  • Worked on ONTRACK — a strategy management product. Configured, designed, coded, unit-tested and documented new features using ASP.NET Web APIs, .NET Core, SQL and Angular 2/5 with TypeScript.
  • Enhanced legacy systems built with SharePoint, AngularJS and SSRS — ensuring backward compatibility and performance tuning.
AngularTypeScript.NET CoreSQLSharePoint
Skills

The toolkit.

People leadership, technical strategy and delivery — sharpened over a decade of cross-functional squad ownership.

Leadership & Team

01
Squad leadershipHiring & onboarding1:1s, mentorship & career growthStakeholder managementCross-team coordinationEnd-to-end delivery ownership

Delivery & Process

02
Scrum & KanbanSprint planning & retrosRoadmap shapingRelease predictabilityRisk & dependency management

Engineering

03
JavaScript (ES6+)TypeScriptReactNext.jsAngularNodejsHTML5CSS3SASSBootstrapPerformance Optimization

Architecture & Platforms

04
Front-end architectureScalable Digital PlatformsSitecore 9 / SXAModular System DesignCross-platform UI/UX Governance

Tooling & Engineering

05
GitHubGitLabBitbucketJiraConfluenceAzure DevOps (TFS)Lerna (monorepo)
Selected Work

Projects that served millions.

Highlights from the last decade — engineering leadership on flagship government and enterprise products.

TAMM
2019 – Present
Key impact

Mobile-first, responsive UI across hundreds of services

Squad Lead

TAMM

Abu Dhabi's flagship digital government platform — used by millions of residents and businesses. Led the front-end engineering team through a multi-year modernization from a legacy Sitecore SXA stack into a React + TypeScript + Next.js architecture, with a shared component library distributed across squads via a Lerna monorepo. Now leading a cross-functional squad (Web, iOS, Android, QA) focused on delivery predictability and feature parity across platforms.

  • Reusable design-system components shared by multiple squads
  • Improved release predictability across Web, iOS and Android
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptSASSLernaSitecore JSS
Visit tamm.abudhabi
ONTRACK
2016 – 2018
Key impact

Delivered new product features in a complex enterprise codebase

Software Engineer

ONTRACK

A strategy management product used by enterprises to configure and analyze KPIs. Owned features end-to-end — from design through coding, unit testing and documentation.

  • Modernized legacy SharePoint / AngularJS / SSRS modules
Angular 2/5TypeScript.NET CoreSQL
Education & Credentials

Foundations & credentials.

July 2024

Foundations of Project Management

by Google
ID: MAXBSBHQK2KD
Oct 2015 – June 2016

System Development (Software Architect) Diploma

Information Technology Institute (ITI) — MCIT Egypt
  • 9-month System Development / Software Architecture diploma (Intake 36)
  • Ranked 1st in class
2009 – 2013

Bachelor's, Computer Science

Misr International University (MIU)
  • Grade: Good
  • Under supervision of the University of Nottingham
Contact

Let's drive strategic digital delivery.

Currently seeking Engineering Manager opportunities in the UAE. I bring a decade of leading cross-functional squads — Web, iOS, Android and QA — and a Software Architecture background to your organization.

Bilingual advantage — Native Arabic & English
Email
m.fouad.shaheen@gmail.com
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/mohamedfshaeen
Phone
+971 58 514 1365+20 106 171 8660