Experience & Technical Product Leadership
Research Software Engineer & Technical Product Lead • Neuroinformatics • Digital Health
I build scientific software products that help researchers work more efficiently. Across neuroinformatics, AI, and digital health, I lead product discovery, define technical strategy, and collaborate with engineering teams to deliver scalable platforms. While I continue to contribute as a hands-on software engineer, my primary focus is translating complex scientific workflows into products that create measurable impact for researchers and healthcare organizations.
Understand researcher workflows through interviews, observation, and collaboration with scientific teams.
Translate scientific requirements into product roadmaps that balance user value, engineering effort, and infrastructure constraints.
Partner with engineers while contributing hands-on code to ship scalable research software and digital health platforms.
Research Software Engineer & Technical Product Lead
Brainlife Mobile
Real-time Mobile Observability for Distributed Neuroimaging Pipelines
Researchers often run neuroimaging pipelines that execute for hours—or even days—across distributed cloud infrastructure. Despite this, there was no convenient way to monitor ongoing analyses away from a desktop environment. I identified this gap through researcher workflows and proposed Brainlife Mobile, a companion application designed to provide real-time visibility into computational pipelines.
- Chose a mobile-first monitoring experience after observing researchers frequently leaving long-running jobs unattended outside the lab.
- Decided to prioritize notification reliability and instant pipeline alert delivery over feature breadth for the initial release.
- Worked directly with neuroscientists to translate day-to-day workflow pain points into product requirements prioritizing remote status tracking over desktop-only views.
- Led technical implementation using React Native and Brainlife REST APIs.
- Built real-time status tracking and push notification services for pipeline completions, bottlenecks, and execution failures.
- Developed mobile diagnostic views to inspect failed job stack traces and execution logs away from desktop environments.
Brainlife Error Monitoring Dashboard
Centralized Observability & Failure Diagnostics
Large neuroimaging workflows generate thousands of jobs across distributed infrastructure. Diagnosing failures required researchers to manually inspect logs across multiple systems, making debugging slow and inefficient. I led the design and delivery of a centralized observability dashboard that transformed how execution failures are monitored across Brainlife.
- Prioritized workflow visibility and rapid failure diagnosis before predictive analytics because immediate error inspection was the highest pain point for researchers.
- Conducted workflow analysis with research teams to identify friction points in diagnosing pipeline failures across distributed systems.
- Defined dashboard specifications and UX layout for error classification and job status reporting.
- Collaborated with infrastructure engineers to deliver a centralized observability dashboard, building the React/Next.js frontend experience and integrating with backend APIs powered by the ELK stack.
- Integrated backend log parsing and failure classification services into an intuitive monitoring interface that simplified diagnosis.
- Built interactive dashboards using React, Next.js, and Node.js for browsing execution history, inspecting logs, and tracking pipeline health.
Platform Migration & Research Infrastructure
Strategic Cloud Transition from Osiri Infrastructure to AWS
- Partnered with cloud infrastructure engineers and platform maintainers to support Brainlife's transition from legacy Osiri infrastructure to AWS.
- Balanced researcher usability with infrastructure scalability when translating pipeline requirements into technical specifications.
- Developed custom internal research software utilities and streamlined developer and researcher onboarding processes.
- Accelerated cloud migration timeline while maintaining continuous uptime for active research teams
- Enhanced system reliability and scalability for high-throughput scientific computing
Neuroinformatics Lead & Technical Product Lead
Fellowship Evaluation Platform
Pan-African Applicant Assessment & Review Digitization
Managing fellowship applications across dozens of African countries involved manual review processes that became increasingly difficult to scale. I initiated and led the development of a comprehensive evaluation platform that digitized candidate assessment workflows.
- Prioritized evaluation efficiency and standardized candidate review workflows after identifying manual spreadsheet review as the primary scaling bottleneck.
- Conducted stakeholder interviews with teaching teams and review committees to map candidate assessment workflows.
- Defined product vision and roadmap, balancing scoring standardization with reviewer flexibility.
- Architected and built full-stack candidate evaluation platform using Next.js and Firebase.
- Engineered multi-stage candidate scoring workflows, reviewer assignment tools, and secure applicant data management.
- Built administrative dashboards for real-time tracking of review progress across regional evaluation teams.
FAIR Research Platform
Open Data & FAIR Neuroscience Community Infrastructure
I led redevelopment of the organization's digital infrastructure around FAIR data principles, creating a modern platform for African neuroscience communities.
- Prioritized open-access dataset discovery and community collaboration features based on regional researcher surveys.
- Defined product strategy and information architecture to make scientific resources and educational materials findable and accessible.
- Collaborated with scientific leadership to align platform features with international FAIR data standards.
- Developed Next.js web application with Firebase backend services for research resource sharing, educational content, and community hubs.
- Built administrative content management workflows and metadata tagging schemas adhering to FAIR data standards.
Fellowship Delivery & Scientific Capacity Building
Pan-African Scientific Training & Open Science Advocacy
- Coordinated with teaching assistants and scientific leaders to design and deliver hands-on neuroscience training programs across Africa.
- Taught reproducible neuroimaging workflows, Docker containerization, and Python scientific computing pipelines.
- Mentored 200+ researchers across 15+ African countries in research software engineering, version control, and FAIR data practices.
- Mentored 200+ researchers across 15+ African countries
- Increased adoption of reproducible neuroimaging workflows and open-science practices
Technical Product Lead
Pan-African Neuroscience Collaboration Platform
Unified Digital Infrastructure for Dataset Sharing & Scientific Networking
- Decided to focus the initial platform release on resource discovery and dataset sharing to quickly address scientific communication fragmentation across institutions.
- Conducted user interviews with researchers across institutions to define product vision and roadmap.
- Architected and built full-stack Next.js collaboration portal with FAIR-compliant data cataloging.
- Unified fragmented collaboration workflows into a single digital platform
- Facilitated cross-institutional dataset sharing and scientific communication
- Promoted FAIR research data standards across pan-African neuroscience labs
Technical Product Lead
Egyptian Neuroscience Digital Ecosystem
Regional Collaboration & Educational Program Platform
- Partnered with scientific leadership to translate regional community feedback into a structured product strategy for scientific networking and educational programs.
- Defined product strategy and platform layout for scientific collaboration, educational programs, and event distribution.
- Designed and built responsive web platform, researcher directory search, and event management portals.
- Collaboration platform serving more than 2,100 neuroscientists, clinicians, educators, and students across Egypt and MENA
- Streamlined scientific networking and resource discovery across the region
- Increased community engagement with educational programs and scientific events
Technical Product Lead (Digital Health)
Digital Mental Healthcare Platform
Therapist Discovery, Scheduling & Administrative Analytics
- Intentionally limited the initial MVP to therapist discovery and appointment scheduling before expanding into patient engagement features.
- Conducted user journey mapping with therapists and patients to define feature priorities.
- Built full-stack Next.js web application with therapist search and discovery functionality and appointment scheduling features.
- Developed administrative dashboards for monitoring booking activity, patient engagement, and platform analytics.
- Digitized therapy discovery and appointment booking workflows
- Improved patient access to certified mental healthcare professionals
- Provided real-time platform analytics and administrative operational insights
Software Engineer
Aposto
Workforce Management & Event Operational Platform
- Collaborated with product managers and client stakeholders to build real-time staff scheduling tools, event-day management dashboards, and knowledge transfer modules.
- Improved event-day operational communication efficiency by 40%
- Built real-time staff scheduling and shift allocation workflows
Flexpackerz
Location-Based Mobile Platform for Co-working Spaces
- Developed cross-platform mobile application using React Native and Firebase, integrating location services and map APIs for co-working space discovery, user authentication, and booking.
- Delivered intuitive location-based booking UX for remote workers on mobile
Award Platform & Corporate Website
Enterprise CMS & Digital Web Optimization
- Built scalable awards management web application with dynamic category administration; optimized corporate website for performance, SEO indexation, and maintainability using Next.js.
- Enhanced website performance, accessibility scores, and client lead conversion
Technical & Product Expertise
Core competencies across product leadership, full-stack software development, and scientific computing
