Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Most people talk about building fintech products. I've been in the trenches shipping crypto exchanges, payment gateways, and regulated platforms across multiple countries, multiple frameworks. Over the years, I've built fintech systems that handle real money, real users, and real regulators breathing down your neck. I've taken projects from a blank terminal to production not once, but repeatedly. Different products, different markets, same obsession: make it work, make it compliant, make it scale. My most recent chapter? Building OFZA.com as CTO - entirely from scratch. Every architectural decision, every infrastructure choice, every integration. I took it through the full VARA licensing journey and came out the other side with a platform that actually stands up to regulatory scrutiny. But VARA was just one battlefield. I've worked across FIU, Polish KNF, and MiCA regulatory frameworks, learning that the fastest way to build trust in fintech is to embrace compliance before anyone asks you to. Here's what I bring to the table that most technical leaders don't: I understand both the code and the courtroom. Smart contracts and surveillance systems. Custody architecture and banking integrations. Travel Rule implementation and onramp/offramp solutions. I've shipped all of it, not as concepts, but as live products handling real transactions. One number I'm proud of: 50% reduction in cloud costs across infrastructure, without touching performance. In a startup, that's not optimization. That's survival money redirected into growth. I live in the full stack. CRM platforms, Big Data pipelines, database architecture, cloud-native deployments, I enjoy connecting the ugly legacy systems to modern services and making everything move as one machine. My approach is straightforward: walk into chaos, find the signal, build the roadmap, ship the product. Surround yourself with people who care more about outcomes than titles, and move fast enough that competitors are still debating what you already launched. If you're building something at the intersection of blockchain, payments, and regulation - let's connect.
As the CTO at OFZA Fintech, a VARA-regulated exchange, lead the technology vision and ensure compliance with regulatory standards, oversee platform architecture, security, and innovation to deliver scalable, compliant, and cutting-edge fintech solutions.
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