Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
As the VP of Engineering at TPAY Mobile, Freddy oversees the engineering team of 40+ engineers , coaches 5 cross-functional squads of 50+ professionals, including Software Engineers, QC engineers, product owners, and project managers. He is responsible for applying best software delivery life cycle processes, ensuring timely and quality delivery of all products, and building and maintaining a career ladder for his team. Freddy has 17+ years of experience in software engineering, product and program management, process improvement, and agile incubation. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from an Egyptian college and a certificate in Mastering Design Thinking from MIT Sloan Executive Education. He is passionate about fintech, having led and scaled the engineering teams and applications at TPAY Mobile, the first and biggest mobile payment gateway in MEA and Turkey, with more than 96 connections and 60 million transactions processed daily. He has extensive knowledge and skills in servant leadership, agility, design thinking, scaling apps and teams, and software engineering.
- Leading TPAY Mobile Engineering Team
• Heading software development team of 35+ software engineers • Coaching 5 cross functional squads of 65+ software engineers, QC engineers, product owners and project managers. • Accountable for applying best software delivery life cycle processes • Accountable for all products delivery time and Quality • Accountable for coaching software engineers and teaching them using best practices • Accountable for building and maintaining career ladder • Accountable for managing interdependencies between squads and solving conflicts • Inspecting all products, running projects for enhancements, refactoring and modification for more efficient operations and performance enhancement • Engaging in all product life cycle, starting design thinking, design, architecture, and delivery • Reporting status of all running products from engineering perspective • Solving complex problems on technical and strategic levels • Responsible for hiring and maintaining engineering team. . Accountable for Engineering Budget.
Leading software development teams of 24+ people at TPAY mobile. Operating in 20+ countries, 24m+ users and billions of transactions. TPAY mobile is MEA's leading DCB provider.