Available for select consulting and build engagements

Mohamed Kadri
Operations leader who ships software.

A senior technology leader with 17 years at Huawei and Etisalat, from carrier delivery to NOC digital transformation - who now designs, builds and ships AI and cloud products end to end.

I own a live mobile and web product from roadmap to production, build MCP-based AI automation, and run it all on Google Cloud with full CI/CD - backed by a career of leading multi-country teams against hard SLAs.

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Years leading telecom and product delivery
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Countries of team and delivery leadership
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Uptime on a product I own end to end
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Team leadership Product ownership and management Stakeholder management Martech and growth AI and cloud engineering
About

Two disciplines, one engineer

For 17 years I have delivered and transformed mission-critical networks for operators across the Middle East and Africa, rising from hands-on engineering to leading multi-vendor teams, network operations, and full digital-transformation programs at Huawei and Etisalat. I am used to owning delivery against hard SLAs, managing customer and executive stakeholders, and turning technical decisions into ROI the business can see.

In parallel I design and build software. I own a live consumer product end to end: a Flutter app on the iOS and Android stores and a Next.js and Node.js web platform. I built MCP-based AI automation for campaign orchestration, integrate Claude, Gemini and OpenAI into real workflows, and run the whole thing on Google Cloud with CI/CD across GitHub and GitLab.

The result is a rare profile: someone who can own a problem from the org chart down to the deploy pipeline - set the strategy, manage the stakeholders, architect the system, write the code, and run it in production.

What I bring to a build

+Product ownership: a live Flutter app on both app stores plus a Next.js and Node.js web platform, owned from Figma to Cloud Run.
+Applied AI: MCP-based agentic automation, multi-provider gateways (Claude, Gemini, OpenAI), and AI content pipelines at scale.
+Cloud and DevOps: GCP (Cloud Run, Storage, IAM), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD on GitHub and GitLab Actions.
+Data and messaging: MongoDB, BigQuery ETL, WhatsApp Cloud API, push (FCM and HMS), SIP and PBX integration.
+Operations leadership: NOC transformation, AIOps, multi-vendor SLA acceptance, ITIL v4 and PMP delivery.
Expertise

Where I go deep

A blend of carrier-grade operations and modern product engineering.

NOC Digital Transformation

Intelligent operations, smart assurance, and self-correcting workflows that cut manual toil and mean-time-to-repair.

AIOps & Event Correlation

ML-driven monitoring, predictive analytics, and event correlation that turns alarm storms into a single actionable signal.

Cloud, Edge & Platform

Containerized services on Cloud Run, Cloudflare Workers at the edge, CI/CD pipelines, OSS cloud migrations, and cybersecurity-compliant architecture.

Conversational & Voice AI

Chatbots, multi-provider AI gateways, and on-prem voice agents bridged to enterprise PBX systems over SIP.

Data & Marketing Analytics

BigQuery ETL, anomaly detection, attribution and server-side event pipelines feeding decision dashboards.

Program & Delivery Leadership

Leading cross-functional, multi-vendor teams across four countries, with executive ROI business cases that translate architecture into C-level decisions.

Experience

17 years, four countries

A path from field engineering to regional technical operations leadership.

Feb 2022 - Present

Technical Project Manager

Huawei, United Arab Emirates

Lead digital transformation and operations on the du mobile-broadband program: smart assurance with ML-powered event management, OSS cloud migration, iPowerStar power saving across 1,200+ sites, and cloud-based tooling. Primary customer interface, reporting through Power BI, Fine BI and MS Project, plus pre-sales for new microwave products.

Mar 2020 - Jan 2022

Transmission Project Manager

Huawei, United Arab Emirates

Drove Middle East transmission projects to target, and led the du microwave acceptance team to SLA-based acceptance and billing. Stood up auditing systems that maintained deliverable quality and customer trust.

Nov 2019 - Mar 2020

Microwave Delivery Manager

Huawei, DR Congo

Delivered new-build and modernization microwave to lift network availability, automated the network database and connectivity for clean handover to operations, and closed all contracted delivery units within SLA.

Feb 2019 - Oct 2019

Service Delivery Manager / Network Operations Team Leader

Huawei (MTN), South Africa

Planned the delivery medium (fiber, GPON, microwave PTP and PTMP) for enterprise services within SLA, then led network operations to clear the transmission network of alarms, root-cause issues, and sharpen optimization with the operator's planning team.

Jul 2016 - Jan 2019

Network Operations Senior Supervisor

Etisalat Misr, Egypt

Ran network operations and maintenance for constant availability and performance, governed managed-service contracts against SLAs and KPIs, and led the planned-activity and electro-mechanical teams that kept sites and power online.

2009 - 2016

Transmission Engineering: Site Engineer to Principal Engineer

Etisalat Misr, Huawei & Telecomax, Egypt

Installed and configured multi-vendor microwave links (Huawei, Ericsson, NEC, Cambium and more) and 2G/3G sites, drove TDM-to-IP migration, and supported B2B and pre-sales. The hands-on foundation under every later leadership role.

Projects

Selected work

Software I have built end to end, and enterprise programs I have led at carrier scale.

Software builds
Marketing platformLive demo

Relay Marketing Console

A full marketing and engagement console on Cloud Run: a WhatsApp campaign engine doing roughly 355 messages a minute via parallel fan-out and a media cache, a multi-provider AI chat inbox with human handoff, an in-browser AI creative studio, and a BigQuery ETL layer with machine-learning anomaly detection. Published as an anonymized engineering case study.

Node.jsCloud RunBigQueryWhatsApp APIClaude / OpenAIPlaywright
Telephony + AI

AI Voice Agent PBX Middleware

On-premise middleware that bridges an enterprise phone system (Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX) to a cloud AI voice agent over pure SIP, on FreePBX and Asterisk. The AI answers general questions and can transfer to a human department, with automatic fallback to a human if the AI or the internet link is down. The PBX never touches the internet.

AsteriskFreePBXSIPElevenLabsDebian
Autonomous AI agentPrivate build

CareerAgent

A fully automated personal-brand agent. It discovers relevant posts, scores them with a Claude model, drafts comments in the owner's voice, and creates original posts with AI-generated images on a schedule. Built on a Playwright automation core with confidence-routed human review.

PythonClaudeGeminiPlaywrightFastAPI
Product ownershipLive on app stores

Mobile + Web Product, owned end to end

Own the roadmap, design and delivery of a consumer product: a Flutter app live on the iOS and Android stores and a Next.js, Node.js and React web platform. Set up the full Google Cloud stack (Cloud Run, Storage, IAM) and CI/CD across GitHub and GitLab with automated code review, plus payments, push (FCM and HMS), and server-side analytics. Reported 99.95% multi-country availability.

FlutterNext.jsNode.jsMongoDBCloud RunTerraform / AnsibleGitHub + GitLab CI
Enterprise programs
UAE, 2022-2024

du Smart Assurance

Orchestrated a New Year smart assurance program with an ML-powered event management system and a smart login and logout workflow for preventive and corrective maintenance activities.

Network-wide

iPowerStar Intelligent Power Saving

Implemented AI-driven power optimization across more than 1,200 network sites, reducing operational expenditure by 11 percent.

2021-2024

OSS Cloud Migration

Led a mission-critical migration of OSS workloads from physical servers to a containerized cloud architecture, with cybersecurity compliance throughout.

Zain SA, 2023

Fiber Network Smart Monitoring

Architected a fiber network monitoring solution integrating GIS mapping with OTDR technology for precise fault localization.

Toolbox

Skills & technologies

From carrier OSS and BSS to modern AI and cloud stacks.

Cloud, DevOps & Backend

Google Cloud RunCloud FunctionsCloud Storage / IAMBigQueryVertex AICloudflare WorkersCloudflare (CDN / WAF / Zaraz)Firebase / FirestoreDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleGitHub ActionsGitLab CINode.jsNext.jsPython / FastAPIMongoDBnginx

AI & Automation

MCP agentic automationClaudeGeminiOpenAIRAGConversational agentsAI content pipelinesPlaywrightElevenLabs voiceImage generation

Telecom Ops & Leadership

NOC digital transformationAIOpsEvent correlationOSS / BSSSLA acceptance & billingMulti-vendor deliveryMicrowave / TransmissionOTDR / GISIBM NetcoolPower BI / Fine BI

Delivery, Growth & Frameworks

WhatsApp Cloud APIFCM / HMS pushSIP / AsteriskMeta CAPIGA4SEO (technical / content)ITIL v4PMPAgile / ScrumMS ProjectJira

Education

MBA, Global Management
ESLSCA, Egypt - 2018
BSc, Telecommunications Engineering
Alexandria University, Faculty of Engineering, Egypt - 2009

Languages

ArabicNative
EnglishAdvanced
FrenchElementary
Contact

Let us build something reliable

Open to consulting on NOC transformation and AIOps, and to designing or building AI and cloud products. The fastest way to reach me is email or LinkedIn.