Alaaaldin Abdelsamad

Technical Product Owner

Salary / Daily rate

Dubai - United Arab Emirates

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

Agile CoachingProject Management (PMO)

Languages

ArabicEnglish

About me

Intro

Technical Product Owner with 9+ years in software engineering and certified PMP/CSPO/CSM expertise. Led Scrum teams at Dubai Land Department, implementing SDLC/CI-CD pipelines and managing product backlogs for government-scale digital solutions. Specialized in Agile transformation, stakeholder management, and bridging business-technical gaps.

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Work experience

Dubai Land Department

Oct 2015 - Present

11 years 1 month

Dubai - United Arab Emirates

Technical Product Owner

Aug 2023 - Present

3 years 3 months

Dubai - United Arab Emirates

• Acts as a bridge between the business side, which expresses customer needs, and the technical teams, which translate business requirements into understandable and feasible tasks. • Communicate and collaborate with Stakeholders and users to define requirements, managing product backlog. • Lead requirement gathering sessions, stakeholders’ discussions and document these requirements for use within the project life cycle. • Strategizing with the stakeholders for system optimization, Identifying efficiencies and ways to improve design and system flow. • Analyzing impact of proposed solutions across the business and developing use cases to demonstrate the business requirements to the development and quality assurance team. • Develop user stories and manage product backlogs items and specify priorities. • Review tickets and assign them to the team based on priority, estimated effort, and team capacity. • Leading Scrum team to deliver Increments till reaching final product. • Leading regular retrospectives and feedback sessions to identify areas for improvement the work on the process optimizations. • Identified potential technical risks early in the development process and collaborated with the product team to mitigate them. • Implement Software development life cycle (SDLC) and continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) • Helping the product manager in defining the product vision and designing roadmap. • Lead the planning and implementation of the product. • Apply Scrum events sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective. • Follow up Progress for each sprint using Jira.

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2015 - Present

11 years 1 month

Dubai - United Arab Emirates

• Design, develop, support and maintain software projects for Dubai Land Department (DLD). • Write supporting documents for projects developed and tested. Develop Microsoft .NET based web applications. • Develop Oracle server database like tables, views, triggers, functions, jobs and stored procedures. • Design and develop web user interfaces with back-end WCF & API services, databases and telerik reports. • Conduct unit tests and fix project defects. • Conduct training sessions with the client to explain and demonstrate the new features usages. • Conduct UATs with stockholder to demonstrate the deliverables & SITs for integrations with external entities. • Coaching the team members and guide them to follow the designed framework and code standards. • Review the team member’s code and make sure they follow the standards.

Senior Software Engineer

Excel Systems

Sep 2014 - Oct 2015

1 year 2 months

Egypt · On-site

• Design, develop and manage software projects for governmental clients. • Analyze and evaluate user needs and develop software solutions. • Write supporting documents for projects developed and tested. Develop Microsoft .net based web applications. • Develop MS SQL server database like tables, views, triggers, jobs and stored procedures. • Design and develop web user interfaces and desk top applications with back-end service, databases and reporting tools. • Conduct unit tests and fix project defects. • Conduct training sessions with the client to explain and demonstrate the new features usages.

Software Engineer

G2K Group

Nov 2010 - Aug 2014

3 years 10 months

Egypt · On-site

• I was working in ePassport ,RFID, Visa , eID, Smart Card Printing, eGate and Border Control Business. • Design, develop and manage software projects for governmental clients on countries level such as (Egypt – IRAQ –Dominican – Mexico –UK) • Support 9 sites for printing Egyptian passports on daily basis. • Design and develop desk top applications with back-end services, databases and reporting tools. • Develop IBM DB2 server database like tables, views, triggers, jobs and stored procedures. • Integrate with many SDKs and devices such as (MRZ readers, barcode readers, passports and Ids printers, finger scanners, iris cam, border eGate, signature device, digital, IP and web cameras)


Education

Valar Institute

Executive Master of Business Administration

2024 - 2025

1 year 1 month

Ain Shams University

BSC

2004 - 2008

4 years 1 month


Licenses & certifications

ITIL V4

Issued: Jul 2024

Certified by People Cert

PMP

Issued: Apr 2024

Certified by PMI

CSPO

Issued: Nov 2023

Certified by Scrum Alliance

CSM

Issued: Dec 2022

Certified by Scrum Alliance

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