About
In brief
I’m the CTO of Taqamate, where we use AI to optimise how commercial buildings use energy. I own the technology strategy, the platform architecture and the engineering team.
My background is unusually full-stack. I’ve designed boards and firmware, taken hardware into volume production, built edge appliances and cloud platforms, and brought machine learning into production systems.
I lead by settling the hard architecture decisions early, holding a high bar on security and reliability, and building teams that own their work end to end.
Current role
CTO, Taqamate
AI-based HVAC energy optimisation for commercial buildings, live across Oman. Since March 2026.
Vision and roadmap, aligned to product and revenue.
Edge to cloud to AI, designed for the field.
Security by design; reliability for live buildings.
Hiring, standards, reviews and delivery.
Selected work
Platforms, products and teams
Sixteen years of products, platforms and teams across hardware, cloud and AI. A few highlights:
Taqamate platform
CTOAI-driven energy optimisation, edge to cloud to AI.
In production across commercial buildings and hotels in Oman.
IoT cloud platform
Architect & engineering lead · KINDOWSDevice management, telemetry, provisioning and zero-downtime OTA.
Runs thousands of deployed devices.
Smart building gateway
Design & development lead · KINDOWSHardware–software co-design; bring-up, DFM and NPI.
Shipped to volume production.
Zigbee firmware team
Founder & lead · KINDOWSBuilt the team and its custom mesh-network stack.
Core IP owned in-house.
Expertise
Every layer of the stack
Hands-on depth in each layer, and accountability across all of them.
Intelligence that acts
Production ML, optimisation and control with guardrails, FDD and M&V baselines.
Platforms that scale
Multi-tenant SaaS, time-series at scale, IaC and observability.
The complete box
Hardened Linux appliances, offline-first by design, OTA at fleet scale.
Talking to real plant
BMS and BACnet integration, metering, wireless mesh and secure device messaging.
Boards that ship
Schematic to layout, bring-up, DFM, NPI and volume manufacturing.
Leadership
Technology strategy, architecture governance, security by design, hiring and mentoring, vendor management.
Experience
Career
Chief Technology Officer
Technology strategy, architecture and delivery for an AI-driven energy optimisation platform.
Director of Design & Development
Led hardware, firmware, cloud and manufacturing as one R&D organisation. Architected the IoT platform; founded the firmware team.
Lead Hardware / Embedded Engineer
Complex boards through bring-up, DFM and NPI into volume production.
Hardware / Embedded Engineer
First product line and core IoT cloud components.
BE, Electronics Engineering
Advisory
A second opinion on the architecture.
For boards, investors and technology leaders who need an independent view. A few engagements a year, by request.
- Architecture & scalability reviewPressure-test hardware, protocol, edge/cloud and data decisions.
- Technical due diligenceFor investors and acquirers in IoT, energy-tech and connected hardware.
- Build-vs-buy & platform decisionsWhere to invest engineering, and what to integrate instead.