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    "summary": "Senior iOS Engineer with 5+ years shipping production iOS work across fintech, banking, e-commerce and governmental apps. Solo developer of Finlytix on the App Store, with an in-app Egyptian-Arabic assistant powered with AI. Currently at Banque Misr on BM Online (1M+ active users).",
    "location": {
      "city": "Cairo",
      "countryCode": "EG",
      "region": "Cairo Governorate"
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      { "network": "App Store", "username": "Finlytix", "url": "https://apps.apple.com/eg/app/finlytix/id6761547531" }
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      "name": "Banque Misr",
      "position": "Senior iOS Engineer",
      "location": "Cairo, Egypt (Hybrid)",
      "url": "https://apps.apple.com/eg/app/bm-online/id1462899730",
      "startDate": "2023-04",
      "endDate": null,
      "summary": "Working on BM Online — the bank's flagship retail app, 1M+ active users — with a multinational team across product, design, backend and security.",
      "highlights": [
        "Architected and shipped features using UIKit, SwiftUI, RxSwift, Combine, Swinject (DI) and Clean Architecture",
        "Implemented Face ID and Touch ID via LocalAuthentication, and device binding with CryptoKit",
        "Shipped card-less ATM withdrawal, plus the BM VIP and BM Youth segment experiences",
        "Built SoftToken on-device 2FA and self-registration onboarding",
        "Authored XCTest suites and integrated Firebase Crashlytics",
        "Served over a year on the production support squad as on-call iOS engineer"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Fixed Solutions",
      "position": "iOS Engineer",
      "location": "Cairo, Egypt (Remote)",
      "startDate": "2021-01",
      "endDate": "2023-04",
      "summary": "Shipped multiple production iOS apps across governmental and e-commerce sectors for the MENA market.",
      "highlights": [
        "Built the Egyptian Electricity Services (EEHC) app — 100K+ App Store downloads — with UIKit and Redux",
        "Shipped the Visitors app for KSA museums and religious sites — 200K+ downloads, localized into 7 languages",
        "Refactored 7 production screens from UIKit to SwiftUI in a phased migration",
        "Built an in-app Visitor Chatbot from scratch in SwiftUI, backed by a REST conversational API",
        "Contributed to the Haramain app for visitors to the Grand Mosque of Mecca"
      ]
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      "name": "Finlytix (Solo)",
      "position": "Solo Developer & Publisher",
      "location": "Remote",
      "url": "https://finlytix-app.com",
      "startDate": "2026-01",
      "endDate": null,
      "summary": "Designed, developed and shipped Finlytix end-to-end — a premium personal-finance app for the Egyptian market and the wider MENA region.",
      "highlights": [
        "Net-worth tracking, live gold / FX / crypto in EGP, budgeting, and subscription tracking",
        "Finny, the in-app assistant in Egyptian Arabic — powered with AI",
        "SMS bank-transaction parsing for CIB, NBE and Banque Misr",
        "14 App Intent structs for Siri Shortcuts and voice automation",
        "StoreKit 2 and RevenueCat with monthly and yearly tiers, plus a Finlytix V lifetime IAP",
        "Supabase and a Cloudflare Worker for serverless quota enforcement",
        "iCloud sync, OneSignal push and AdMob",
        "Full App Store Connect, TestFlight and App Review lifecycle owned solo"
      ]
    }
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  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Mansoura University",
      "url": "https://www.mans.edu.eg/",
      "area": "Mechatronics Engineering",
      "studyType": "B.Sc.",
      "endDate": "2020"
    }
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      "name": "Languages & Frameworks",
      "keywords": ["Swift 6", "Objective-C", "Kotlin Multiplatform", "SwiftUI", "UIKit", "Auto Layout", "SwiftData", "Core Data", "RxSwift", "Combine", "async/await", "Actors", "WidgetKit", "MapKit", "Core Animation"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Architecture & Patterns",
      "keywords": ["Clean Architecture", "MVVM", "MVP", "VIP", "Redux", "SOLID", "Design Patterns"]
    },
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      "name": "Apple Platform",
      "keywords": ["App Intents", "Siri Shortcuts", "StoreKit 2", "CryptoKit", "LocalAuthentication", "iCloud", "CloudKit", "APNs", "String Catalogs", "Face ID", "Touch ID"]
    },
    {
      "name": "AI",
      "keywords": ["AI", "Claude Code", "Codex", "Gemini", "Opencode"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Backend & Release",
      "keywords": ["Supabase", "Firebase", "Cloudflare Workers", "RevenueCat", "OneSignal", "AdMob", "XCTest", "Fastlane", "App Store Connect"]
    }
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    { "language": "Arabic", "fluency": "Native speaker" },
    { "language": "English", "fluency": "Fluent" }
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      "name": "Finlytix",
      "description": "Premium personal-finance iOS app for MENA — net-worth tracking, live gold/FX/crypto in EGP, budgeting, subscription tracking. Bilingual Arabic / English with full RTL/LTR. In-app Egyptian-Arabic assistant powered with AI.",
      "highlights": ["Solo developer & publisher", "App Store live", "14 App Intent structs", "iCloud sync", "Supabase + Cloudflare Workers backend"],
      "keywords": ["iOS", "SwiftUI", "SwiftData", "AI", "Personal Finance", "MENA", "Arabic", "RTL"],
      "url": "https://apps.apple.com/eg/app/finlytix/id6761547531",
      "type": "iOS app",
      "roles": ["Solo developer", "Designer", "Publisher"],
      "entity": "Solo"
    }
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