Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Ahmed / Saeed
Building things that make people's lives easier. Co-Founder & CTO at Techrar — leading product and engineering.
Building things that make people's lives easier. Co-Founder & CTO at Techrar — leading product and engineering.
What matters is discovering the real problem — understanding how it actually works. Technology comes after, not before.
Technology should serve us, not the other way around. If it adds complexity instead of removing it, something went wrong.
It started with a broken foot as a kid — stuck at home, I started taking things apart just to understand how they worked. That curiosity never stopped.
I studied mechanical engineering, but programming is what pulled me in. During COVID in 2020, still in college, we founded Axenda and built Khotta — an app for students. I moved on, but the team kept it running.
After a brief corporate stint, I co-founded Techrar in 2022. I lead product and engineering — a team of 13 — building SaaS products. I also built the support department from zero.
What I care about most isn't the code. It's building things that make people's lives easier, creating jobs, and leading teams to solve real problems.
A broken foot meant staying home. Staying home meant boredom. Boredom meant taking apart everything in sight. That curiosity never left.
Enrolled in Mechanical Engineering, but found my real passion in programming. The ability to create something from nothing with just a keyboard was irresistible.
Still in college, we founded Axenda during quarantine. Built Khotta, an app for students. I moved on, but the team continued and it's still running.
Worked at a semi-government company. Learned a lot about how large organizations operate, but knew I needed to build something of my own.
Co-founded Techrar. Leading product and engineering — a team of 13 — building SaaS products. Founded the support department from scratch.
A companion app for pilgrims performing Umrah in Mecca. A personal project — half a million people have used it.
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