A road with two scholarships abroad and two returns, each one to a larger responsibility.
He studied computer engineering at Umm Al-Qura University while working as a sales specialist and financial accountant at a medical products distributor from 2004 to 2007, handling clients and orders, budgets and financial reports.
In the summer of 2007 he interned at Saudi Airlines' main headquarters in Jeddah, supporting systems across the building, including the CEO's office.
He earned a diploma in security science with a grade of 94 and worked at the college as a planning and logistics engineer, leading a team responsible for logistics and subsistence for about 200 staff during the Hajj season, planning traffic flow and crowd control, and coordinating several agencies to solve problems in real time.
As a network engineer and project manager in a government entity, he planned and delivered the network extensions that connected all regional branches to headquarters in Riyadh, led the development and operation of the primary data center serving operations across the Kingdom, and prepared tender specifications and evaluated proposals.
Sponsored by his employer, he earned a Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering at the University of Bridgeport with honors (GPA 3.67/4) and was invited to join Upsilon Pi Epsilon.
He researched networks and embedded digital systems with sensor and Arduino prototypes and published at IEEE conferences, including an intelligent system to run the traffic and pedestrian tunnels of Makkah and Madinah.
He came back as Director of the Network Operations Division, ran it with high reliability and earned the Excellence Award in 2017.
He led RFPs from conception to award under government procurement regulations, and delivered telecom circuits with STC, Mobily, ITC and MyPhone, a digital visitor queuing system, and a visual trial system in partnership with the Ministry of Justice.
Sponsored again, he pursued a Ph.D.
in Networks and Telecommunications Engineering at RMIT University, within the Next Generation Telecommunications and Networks Research Group supported by the Australian Government and Telstra. He studied the global internet slowdowns caused by BGP convergence delays, proposed an SDN-based solution called MultiState-BGP, and published five peer-reviewed papers. He also taught networking labs and received the Ideal Teacher (Rose) Award in 2019 with a 93.18% teaching score.
He returned to establish and lead the Artificial Intelligence department of a government entity: strategy, KPIs and a roadmap, a data warehouse, and use cases for operations, cybersecurity and decision-making.
From 2023 to 2025 he also led E-Services & Transactions at the same time.
He received the Best Technology Leader Award 2025, 2nd place across all sectors and regions, and the Consultant Professional Accreditation from the Saudi Council of Engineers.
In 2026 he was nominated among government leaders for the international government process reengineering program in Singapore.
وما توفيقي إلا بالله
And my success is only through God.
