Hani Hamdan

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Co-founder & COO, Verge Robotics - growth · education · content

Verge Robotics
Dubai, UAE · GST (UTC+4)
10+ years experience
American University in Cairo
English, Arabic
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Overview

Co-founder & COO of Verge Robotics, working on edtech. Grew the team to 80 people across 5 countries. Before that: Visa and Boston Consulting Group. I mentor first-time managers when I can.

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mobileeducationcontentgrowth
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
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Looking for a design-minded co-founder for cross-border payouts for nonprofits

The idea
Cross-border payouts for nonprofits
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
14 years in edtech
Looking for
Commercial co-founder who has sold to enterprises
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Dubai or remote

I bring 22 years of edtech (currently Verge Robotics). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Full-time from day one.

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Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Nov 2023 - Present
    Verge Robotics · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Grew the team to 120 people across 2 countries.
    • Raised $37 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Senior iOS Engineer
    Mar 2022 - Nov 2023
    Visa · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Moved 67% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Built the experimentation framework 40 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  3. Full-Stack Engineer
    Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
    Boston Consulting Group · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 43 minutes to under 3.
  4. Principal Engineer
    Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
    Oracle · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Led or co-led 39 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
  5. Staff Software Engineer
    May 2016 - Aug 2018
    Siemens · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Built the experimentation framework 18 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Shipped 8 launches on the iOS team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. American University in Cairo
    BA, Engineering
    2000 - 2004

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