Islam El-gaafary

Leading mobile architecture and delivery for the NEO digital bank (Saudi National Bank), designing modular clean iOS architectures, building Fastlane CI/CD pipelines for zero-downtime releases, and mentoring a team of 6 engineers to deliver features at scale.

Improved session replay and network log capture to enhance debugging accuracy, resolved critical crash reports for key clients increasing SDK stability, optimized SDK runtime performance to boost responsiveness, and led a taskforce that cut issue resolution time by 40%.

Architected a modular superapp system that accelerated delivery by 30%, integrated Flutter modules and AWS Cognito, and implemented full CI/CD automation while collaborating on large-scale government and transport apps.

Led the mobile team for a FinTech open-banking app under Vision 2030, built custom financial charting components and in-app purchase flows, and delivered subscription and promo-code modules that increased retention and revenue.

Shipped seven iOS apps to the App Store, built a reusable network layer that accelerated API integration by 50%, and developed 3D/AR medical apps using Unity and ML for US clinics with optimized visual rendering pipelines.

Activities and societies: Published conference paper: "Building Your Kingdom: Imitation Learning for Custom Gameplay Using Unity ML-Agents" at the 2019 IEEE 10th Annual ITEM Conference.

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University from July 2014 to July 2019.