
Alaaaldin Abdelsamad
Technical Product Owner
Salary / Daily rate
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
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.
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
PMP
Issued: Apr 2024
CSPO
Issued: Nov 2023
CSM
Issued: Dec 2022