Islam Mahmoud · SaaS & AI Engineering Leader
15+ years shipping products, from first engineer beside founders to Engineering Manager at Shopify, a company of 13,000. Lately I have been deep in AI: building products, agents, and systems, and guiding companies through the AI transition.
The range
Most consultants have seen one size of company. I’ve shipped at all of them, across Egypt, Europe, the US, and Saudi Arabia. Each stage taught me a different truth about building software that lasts.
First hire. Zero to product: architecture, hiring, and the discipline of shipping when everything is on fire.
Massive-scale platforms where a slow query is a lost customer and systems must survive real-world chaos.
Leading teams inside one of the world’s great product companies, learning process, quality, and scale as a craft.
Building AI products, agents, and systems, including platforms that analyze hundreds of thousands of calls to drive better decisions.
What I do
I work hands-on. Everything below ends in working software or a working plan, never a deck that sits in a drawer.
From idea to production: LLM-powered products, autonomous agents, and the evaluation loops that keep them honest.
Intelligent systems built with the same rigor as the platforms I scaled: reliable, observable, and cost-aware.
For teams and leaders: a practical, measurable path to using AI in how you build, decide, and operate.
Companies I’ve worked at
One call
Thirty minutes on your product, your team, or your AI transition. You’ll leave with a clear next step, whether or not we work together after.
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