Abdelrahman Saed — Lead Mobile Engineer at iStoria. Cairo, Egypt / Remote.
I build mobile systems that hold at scale. 7 years shipping production iOS and Android to 5M+ users — and the throughline is always the same: architecture that doesn't rot under growth, releases that ship on schedule, and teams that get sharper every sprint.
Today I lead a 4-engineer mobile squad at iStoria. I own the architecture, the release pipeline, and the engineering culture. We cut our release cycle from four weeks to one, held a 99.9% crash-free rate across 350+ releases, and built a platform where four engineers out-ship teams twice their size.
What I care about: making the right thing the default. Offline-first reads so no learner stares at a spinner. Failures as values so the app never crashes on an error path. Feature flags so deploy and release are separate decisions. The technology is the easy part — the hard part is building systems and teams where good decisions compound instead of decay.
Architecture decisions, RFCs, technical strategy, engineering standards.
Mentoring, code reviews, hiring, delegation, raising engineering standards.
Release governance, CI/CD, feature flags, engineering velocity.
Balancing technical quality, product constraints, delivery speed, and long-term maintainability.
Read the iStoria case study for the full ownership picture.
Open to Lead / Staff Mobile Engineering roles — full-time, fractional leadership, contract, or technical advisory. Remote worldwide, or hybrid / on-site across the Gulf & Egypt.
Remote (worldwide) · Hybrid / on-site (Gulf & Egypt) · Contract / freelance · Available on 2 weeks' notice · Replies within 24 hours