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Said Khader

Technical Director & Senior Engineering Leader

Amman, Jordan

Senior Engineering Leader with 18+ years of experience building and scaling high-traffic platforms across the MENA region. Brings hands-on expertise in technical strategy, system architecture, and turning complex business requirements into scalable production systems. Currently leading engineering at Tabsense.ai.

Experience

Technical Director

Tabsense.ai

Jan 2025 to Present
  • Own the overall technical strategy and platform architecture
  • Lead and scale multi-disciplinary engineering teams across frontend, backend, and AI
  • Deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing systems at speed
  • Drive engineering excellence, standards, and best practices organization-wide
  • Align technology initiatives with business objectives and support executive decision-making

Sr. Software Development Manager

mawdoo3

Jan 2020 to Jan 2025
  • Managed and led multiple software development teams through rapid product growth
  • Oversaw end-to-end software delivery, system architecture, and technical roadmap
  • Partnered with product and business stakeholders to align technical solutions with goals
  • Enforced code quality standards, scalability practices, and on-time delivery

Senior Software Engineer

LTM

2018 to 2019
  • Led development of scalable backend systems and core product features
  • Provided technical leadership through code reviews and developer mentoring
  • Collaborated cross-functionally to ship high-quality software on schedule

Technical Team Leader

robu.io

2018
  • Transitioned the project from outsourcing to in-house and built the engineering team from scratch
  • Led technical execution and architecture for all core systems
  • Mentored developers, enforced code quality, and maintained system stability under delivery pressure

Technical Team Leader

CASHU

2014 to 2017
  • Owned technical leadership for mission-critical payment processing systems
  • Led insourcing strategy and full knowledge transfer from external vendors
  • Established development processes, engineering standards, and team structure

Software Engineer

OpenSooq

2012 to 2014
  • Worked on developing and maintaining core platform features for the classifieds marketplace, focusing on performance and user experience.

Software Engineer

CASHU

2010 to 2012
  • Contributed to payment system development and backend services, ensuring secure and reliable digital payment processing.

Software Engineer

Softile Solutions, Info2cell, Parallel Software Solutions (Mobily.ws)

2007 to 2010