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work with me.

Two ways: I lead, and I teach.

Leading teams shows me where AI helps in real delivery work. Teaching forces me to explain it in plain language to people who have a job to get back to.

Belal Haikal, half illustration and half photo

Lead

Hire me to lead engineering teams

I give teams clear direction, protect their focus and stay close enough to the architecture to make good technical calls. I have done it on site and across distributed, multi-region organisations.

Roles I am open to

  • Senior Engineering Manager
  • Head of Engineering

Based in Amsterdam.

20
engineers led at once, across four teams
75+
countries served by those teams
200×
faster secure ML workloads at Fortanix

Where I have led

  • bol
  • Decathlon Digital
  • Fortanix
  • DAZN
  • Talpa Network
  • iflix

Teach

Book a workshop, or bring AI into your team

For engineering teams

AI adoption for engineering teams

I can do the same with your team: workshops plus follow-up, shaped around how you already work, with attention to cost and to what is safe to share with a model.

Plan an adoption

Every engineer on my teams now uses an AI coding assistant. One project estimated at two months was finished in a single sprint.

  • Engineering teams

    Claude Code Best Practices

    Forty-two hands-on tips, from better prompts to a complete AI-assisted workflow. Run at bol and agap2.

    See the workshop
  • Finance teams

    AI for Finance: Executive Masterclass

    Four days of slides and labs. People finish with a receipt-reading budget tracker they built themselves.

    See the course
  • Engineering teams

    AWS for engineering teams

    Cloud fundamentals to certification. At iflix I trained more than 50 engineers, and 13 became AWS certified.

    Ask about AWS training

Delivered in English or Arabic, on site or remote.

Talks

I speak at conferences on generative AI, cloud and streaming at scale.

  • TechEx AI & Big Data Expo, 2025
  • Tweakers Developers Summit, 2020
  • AWS Media Summit Singapore, 2018
Invite me to speak

Mentoring

For engineers moving into management. If that is you, connect with me on LinkedIn or send me a message.

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