Hi, I'm Mohamed Attwa

Senior Frontend Architect
across fintech, commerce & government

Banking · Government · AI products. Based in Dubai, UAE.

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Years building production frontends

3×

Feature velocity at XpertSea

75→15%

Checkout drop-off at Tradeling

8+ years building production frontends.

Banking. Government. AI products.

Where getting it wrong actually matters.

I've spent 8+ years shipping production frontends for places where mistakes carry real weight — regulated banking, government platforms, AI products. My work sits at the intersection of deep technical craft and product ownership: I build the architecture, own the design system, and stay close enough to users to ask the questions that change what gets built.

Currently at Apostrophy, building the Dubai Land Department's government platform. Open to senior and lead frontend roles — UAE on-site, hybrid or remote, or remote worldwide. Full-time preferred, contract welcome.

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Work Experience

8+ years across government, banking, AI-product, and e-commerce — engagements where measurable outcomes followed architectural decisions.

Apostrophy

Senior Frontend Developer

Jan 2026 — Present · Dubai, UAE

Building the frontend foundation for a Dubai Land Department platform from the ground up. Government project: that means a higher security bar, accessibility compliance, and stakeholders who care about reliability above everything else.

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptNode.js

Gov

Regulated environment

DLD

Dubai Land Department

Current

Active contract

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XpertSea Solutions

Senior Software Development Engineer

May 2023 — Dec 2025 · Toronto, Canada (Remote)

Two and a half years rebuilding the frontend of an aquaculture data platform from the ground up. New stack, new design system, new mobile features. Development cycles went 3x faster. The bug backlog stopped blocking releases.

Next.jsReactTypeScriptRedux ToolkitGraphQL+5

3×

Faster development cycles

90%

Bug reduction

60%

Less manual reporting time

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Banque Saudi Fransi

Senior Software Engineer | Tech Lead

Mar 2022 — May 2023 · Dubai, UAE

Joined the Digital Factory team and ran the bank's first cloud-native project from stack selection to production. Picked the tech, designed the infrastructure, and built the headless CMS that got marketing off engineering's plate.

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptGraphQLNest.js+3

60%

Faster content publishing

Engineers led

1st

Cloud-native project at the bank

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Tradeling

Senior Software Engineer → Front End Architect

Dec 2019 — Feb 2022 · Dubai, UAE

One of the founding engineers on MENA's first B2B e-marketplace. Helped launch the platform in under 100 days, then rebuilt the checkout that was losing 75% of buyers. Drop-off fell to 15%. Daily orders went from single digits to 30-40.

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptReduxNode.js+1

<100 days

Platform launch

75%→15%

Checkout drop-off

50%

Company GMV contributed

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Seera Group (Almosafer & Tajawal)

Software Engineer, Frontend Developer

Feb 2018 — Dec 2019 · Cairo, Egypt → Dubai, UAE

Started in Cairo building a headless WordPress CMS for hotel listings. Bookings went up 50%, bounce rate dropped 80%. Got promoted to Senior Officer and relocated to Dubai.

ReactReduxTypeScriptWordPress (Headless)

50%

Increase in bookings

80%

Drop in bounce rate

2 cities

Cairo to Dubai

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Projects

GitHub

Things I've built outside of client work.

Enterprise Analytics Dashboard

Live Demo

A full-featured analytics dashboard built with React and TypeScript. Real-time data visualization, complex filtering, and responsive design — demonstrating production-ready frontend architecture.

ReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSRechartsWebSockets

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About

8+ years building production frontends for environments where getting it wrong is not just a UX problem. It is a compliance issue, a lost transaction, or a headline.

Banking (Banque Saudi Fransi), B2B e-commerce (Tradeling), aquaculture AI (XpertSea), government (Dubai Land Department). Different sectors, same discipline: understand the constraint, design the system, ship the outcome.

I work best when I own the architecture from design system tokens to CI/CD, and when I am close enough to product to ask "does this metric actually matter?"

Currently

Apostrophy · Dubai Land Department

Senior Frontend Developer, government platform

Jan 2026 – present · Dubai, UAE

Open to

UAE rolesRemote worldwideFull-time · ContractSenior / Lead

Outcome-driven

I measure success in shipped metrics: drop-off rates, delivery velocity, load times. Not lines of code.

Regulated-sector experience

Banking, government, fintech. Places where WCAG compliance and audit trails are requirements, not suggestions.

Systems thinker

I build the component system before I build the feature. Design tokens, shared primitives, and clear API contracts pay compound interest.

Team multiplier

Led teams of 4–6 engineers. Code review culture, mentoring, and architectural consistency matter more to me than individual heroics.

Education

2010–2014 · Thebes Academy · Cairo

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Four-year programme covering algorithms, data structures, software engineering, and systems design.

Certifications

2018

Mobile Web Specialist Nanodegree

Udacity

2019

Open Source Contributor — Chakra UI

GitHub

Skills & Stack

Languages

ArabicNative

EnglishProfessional

Soft Skills

Systems ThinkingE2E OwnershipTeam LeadershipRegulated EnvironmentsPerformance EngineeringDesign SystemsBias for Action

Tech Stack

FRONTEND

ReactTypeScriptNext.jsTailwind CSSReact Native

STATE & API

Redux ToolkitReact QueryGraphQLRESTWebSockets

TESTING

JestPlaywrightCypress

TOOLING

ViteWebpackGitFigmaStorybook

BACKEND

Node.js

LIBRARIES

HighchartsChakra UIMaterial UIshadcn/uiReact Hook FormChart.js

CMS

ContentfulWordPressStrapi

AI & INFRA

Claude APIVercel

What colleagues say

As a lead engineer on one of the most important projects in the organization, Mohamed is successfully leading a team working on a project created from scratch. Having top-notch technical skills, he is able to effectively prioritize and make decisions that are in the best interest of the project. It's great to have such talent in a team.

Sanjin Čeleski

Head of Engineering at Banque Saudi Fransi

Mohamed Attwa is an exceptional developer who truly understands the meaning of 'quality at speed.' He is highly detail-oriented, solves complex problems quickly, and is one of the most enjoyable people I've had the chance to manage. He brings a unique blend of technical excellence and a consistently positive presence to the team. If you're looking for a developer who can get things done and raise the bar, Mohamed is your person.

Douglas Mendes

Software Engineering Manager at XpertSea

I had a chance to work closely with Mohamed Sayed who is famously known as Maradona from my first day at Tradeling until my last day. Mohamed's biggest strengths that I admire are taking initiatives on a personal and team level, and driving them. I always counted on him for suggesting solutions and approaches to deliver the tasks in an optimal way. He is always happy to help his team members and support them to any extent needed. It's been an amazing learning experience and I will definitely be more than happy to work with Mohamed again!! Are you thinking about hiring him? Don't! ... Just do it! He will definitely be the biggest asset to any organization he joins.

Bhargavi Rajanna

Senior Frontend Developer at Tradeling

Sayed is someone who takes ownership for what he is working on, he has his own way of thinking and problem solving as he gets into the details of every part of every problem he faces. I totally recommend him as a professional frontend developer.