A large Arabic content platform providing trusted material for personal development, goal achievement, wellbeing and happiness.
Project overview
A large Arabic content platform providing trusted material for personal development, goal achievement, wellbeing and happiness.
My role
I led the software engineering team and planned the project from the ground up. My responsibilities included translating the vision into an executable scope and phases, contributing to architecture decisions, prioritizing delivery, coordinating the engineering team and reviewing quality against high software-engineering standards.
Engineering challenge
Operating a large multi-category publishing platform while maintaining discoverability, performance and scalable editorial workflows.
Delivery approach
- Translate business goals into clear requirements.
- Plan architecture and delivery phases from the beginning.
- Coordinate the team and manage technical risks.
- Establish maintainability, security, performance and scalability standards.
- Review delivery and document important engineering decisions.
Outcome
An Arabic publishing ecosystem that helps a broad audience discover and revisit personal-development content.
Software engineering leadership
This project demonstrates Ahmad Samilo’s practical experience as a software engineering consultant in Syria and an engineering team leader, building products on a maintainable and scalable technical foundation.