Open to CTO / Head of Engineering (AI) roles · fractional CTO

CTO & Head of
Engineering (AI).

Moeid Saleem Khan — Founder & CTO, Atrix · Dubai

13+ years building and leading engineering — six products shipped in 2026, agentic AI and LLM systems in production, teams of up to 32. Previously Head of Engineering (AI) at Etera AI. Dubai → Middle East → Europe → remote.

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Moeid Saleem Khan — CTO & Head of Engineering (AI), in a dark suit, looking to the side — Founder & CTO @ Atrix·ex-Head of Engineering (AI), Etera AI

13+

Years Engineering

Products Shipped in 2026

Engineers Led

50+

Founders Mentored

Etera AI (G42-backed)

Mashreq Neo

AllStars Digital (DIFC)

Dubai Municipality

Searchie AI

Hoppers Network

Atrix

VoDialer AI

Atrix Analytics

RentGari

MISK Foundation

United Nations FLA

Etera AI (G42-backed)

Mashreq Neo

AllStars Digital (DIFC)

Dubai Municipality

Searchie AI

Hoppers Network

Atrix

VoDialer AI

Atrix Analytics

RentGari

MISK Foundation

United Nations FLA

About

A CTO who still ships — I design the system, hire the team, and write the code that gets it to production, from the first commit to millions of users.

Since 2013 I've moved between the engineering trenches and the leadership table: building Mashreq Neo — the GCC's most innovative digital bank — re-platforming Dubai Municipality onto Kubernetes, and leading a 32-person team across Europe, MENA and India at AllStars Digital in DIFC.

Most recently I was Head of Engineering (AI) at Etera AI, where I architected 21+ microservices and a federated-MCP multi-agent LLM layer for a G42-powered travel platform. In 2026, as founder and CTO of Atrix, I shipped six production products — in TypeScript, Rust and Go — to prove what an AI-era engineering org can do. I've mentored 50+ founders through the MISK Fellowship and spoken at UN-affiliated leadership conferences. Read the full story →

Based inDubai, UAE — DIFC

NowFounder & CTO @ Atrix — six products shipped in 2026

PreviouslyHead of Engineering (AI) @ Etera AI (G42-powered) · VP Engineering, Hoppers Network · Head of Engineering, AllStars Digital (DIFC)

FocusAgentic AI · Voice AI · Cloud & platform engineering · Teams

EducationBSE Software Engineering, COMSATS (2014)

AvailabilityOpen to CTO / Head of Engineering (AI) roles — Dubai, Middle East, Europe or remote — and fractional-CTO engagements

Shipped in 2026

Six products, one year, one engineer-CTO

Real products with real users — each designed, built and deployed by me in 2026 using AI-assisted delivery. This is what I mean by AI-era velocity.

Atrix

2026

AI workspace SaaS for small teams — CRM, projects, hiring, HR and billing in one place.

ProblemSmall teams juggle six tools that don't talk to each other, and their AI assistants can't reach any of them.

BuiltNext.js App Router on Prisma + PostgreSQL with Better Auth and Stripe subscriptions, a remote MCP server with OAuth 2.1 and scoped, revocable tokens (49 grantable scopes, write-implies-read), an in-app agent, and an Expo iOS app. One MCP connection also reaches Atrix Analytics, Atrix Mail and PrimeLeadFinder.

ProofListed in the official MCP Registry; shipped CRM, HR, agreements with e-sign, calendar, pages and people modules in one year.

Next.jsTypeScriptPrismaPostgreSQLBetter AuthStripeMCPExpo

Case study

VoDialer AI

2026

AI outbound voice dialer built as a full VICIdial replacement for US Medicare call centres.

ProblemLegacy dialers are 20-year-old PHP; nobody has rebuilt the whole stack with an AI agent as the caller.

BuiltEight Rust services on FreeSWITCH and Kamailio, a real-time speech-to-text → LLM → text-to-speech cascade (AssemblyAI, DeepSeek, ElevenLabs/Fish), a platform console with roles, TOTP and audit logs, and an Expo mobile app.

ProofReal reply gap of ~1.2 s on live PSTN calls; designed for 100+ concurrent conversations.

RustFreeSWITCHKamailioSignalWireAssemblyAIElevenLabsPostgreSQL

Case study

Atrix Analytics

2026

Product analytics platform (a PostHog alternative) written in Rust on ClickHouse.

ProblemAnalytics SaaS pricing scales with events; a lean Rust ingest changes the cost curve entirely.

BuiltRust ingest + query services over ClickHouse with feature flags, A/B experiments, session replay, and an AI analyst exposed over MCP.

ProofIngests 42.7k events/s on a single CPU at 66 ms p99.

RustClickHousePostgreSQLMCPNext.js

Case study

Atrix Mail

2026

Multi-tenant email hosting with a developer sending API and AI webmail.

ProblemTeams want their own domain mail plus transactional sending, without stitching three vendors together.

BuiltPostfix, Dovecot and Rspamd with SPF/DKIM/DMARC, a Bun API, PostgreSQL + pgvector semantic search, Stripe billing, and a 41-tool MCP server published on npm.

Proof41-tool MCP server on npm; per-mailbox billing live.

BunTypeScriptPostfixDovecotRspamdPostgreSQLpgvectorMCP

Case study

RentGari

2026

Car-rental marketplace for Pakistan that gives every agency a free branded storefront.

ProblemRental agencies in Pakistan run on WhatsApp and Facebook posts, with no verified reputation layer.

BuiltRust/Axum API, Astro web, WhatsApp OTP sign-in, verified listings (photo + insurance + vehicle checks), ops suite with roles, drivers, chat and promos, plus an Android app.

ProofLive with driver-first bookings; Play Store listing published.

RustAxumAstroPostgreSQLWhatsApp API

Case study

Switchboard

2026

The shared messaging layer behind all of the above — WhatsApp and SMS with multi-provider failover.

ProblemEvery product needs OTP, templates and opt-out handling; building it once saves it five times.

BuiltGo service with Twilio, Telnyx, Infobip and Plivo failover, OTP verification, template management and opt-out handling.

GoTwilioTelnyxInfobipPlivoPostgreSQL

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What I Do

Services & expertise

End-to-end technology leadership for startups and enterprises — from AI systems to the cloud they run on.

AI & Agentic Systems

Production LLM systems, voice agents, and RAG pipelines that actually ship. From architecture to eval, I build AI that earns its place in your stack.

LLMsVoice AIRAGAgents

Cloud Infrastructure

Kubernetes clusters, GitOps pipelines, and multi-cloud architecture on AWS, GCP & Azure — built to scale and tuned to cut cost.

KubernetesTerraformAWSDevOps

Fractional CTO

Part-time technical leadership for founders — owning team, product, and infrastructure to get you from idea to launch fast, with AI-era velocity instead of a year-long build.

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Career

The journey so far

Thirteen years from software engineer to CTO — banking, government, fintech, AI and my own products. Tap any role to expand.

2026

Hands-on founder-engineer. Designed, built and shipped six production products in 2026 — an AI workspace SaaS, an AI voice dialer, an email-hosting platform, a Rust analytics platform, a rental marketplace and a shared messaging layer — while staying open to a full-time CTO / Head of Engineering role.

Atrix (atrix.dev): AI workspace SaaS — CRM, projects, hiring, HR, billing — with a remote MCP server (OAuth 2.1, scoped revocable tokens) and an Expo iOS app
VoDialer AI (vodial.ai): eight Rust services on FreeSWITCH + Kamailio with a real-time STT → LLM → TTS cascade (AssemblyAI, DeepSeek, ElevenLabs)
Atrix Analytics: Rust + ClickHouse product analytics ingesting 42.7k events/s on one CPU at 66 ms p99 — feature flags, experiments, session replay, AI analyst over MCP
Atrix Mail: multi-tenant email hosting (Postfix, Dovecot, Rspamd, SPF/DKIM/DMARC) with a Bun API, pgvector search and a 41-tool MCP server on npm
RentGari (rentgari.pk): car-rental marketplace — Rust/Axum API, Astro web, WhatsApp OTP; Switchboard: Go messaging layer with multi-provider WhatsApp/SMS failover

TypeScriptRustGoNext.jsBunPostgreSQLClickHouseMCPExpo

2024

Led engineering for a G42-powered AI travel platform — a distributed, event-driven backend with a federated-MCP, multi-agent LLM orchestration layer across Restaurants, Experiences, Hotels and Flights.

Architected & shipped 21+ microservices from scratch (Bun + ElysiaJS) on a Kafka MSK event-driven topology, orchestrated via EKS with Grafana/Loki observability
Built a multi-agent LLM layer (LangChain, LangGraph, MCP) with hierarchical agent graphs, scoped memory and vector-augmented retrieval per vertical
Engineered a high-performance embedding service (BAAI bge models, pgVector + Redis KNN) powering a unified hybrid-retrieval pipeline
Delivered deep third-party integrations (Headout, RateHawk, PKFare) with retry semantics, rate-limit governance and failover

TypeScriptPythonGolangBunKafkaKubernetesLangGraphLLMs

2023

Led engineering across a portfolio of fintech, AI and Web3 products — from an on-chain trading platform to NFT exchanges and DeFi tooling.

Built the Hoppers Network ecosystem — Hopper PRO auto-trading AI for CEX & copy trading, and HopperPeer p2p payments
Advised Kix Digital's on-chain sports-fantasy exchange; authored ERC-1155 smart contracts for the $KIX token
Developed Meme Coin Creator — a token & NFT launch tool on Solana, Base & Blast with DEX integration
Resolved latency on Pallet Exchange (NFT marketplace on SEI) via a Kubernetes infrastructure redesign

Next.jsTypeScriptNode.jsSolidityWeb3.jsKubernetes

2021

Led the core build of AllStars Digital Exchange — a human-indexing platform converting sports-player performance into financial products (NFTs, ETFs, $ASX Coin).

Managed a cross-regional team of 32 across Europe, MENA and India
Shifted infrastructure from Windows VMs to Azure Kubernetes (AKS) with Terraform IaC and Azure DevOps CI/CD
Implemented Fireblocks for multi-custodial wallets and Apache Kafka as the platform message broker
Owned key business partnerships including Multibank Group for MEX

Next.jsReactNode.jsKafkaKubernetesSolidity

2020

Led technical strategy for an AI video-recruitment platform driving global expansion with ML and cognitive technology. Searchie was later acquired by oceain.ai.

Built a cross-signaling WebRTC media server (Janus & Kurento) with Amazon Rekognition for emotional analysis
Architected infrastructure on Kubernetes (AKS) with a Node.js + Python backend and React frontend
Ran DPIA / ISO compliance for high-profile clients including Saudi Aramco and Jumeirah Group

ReactNode.jsPythonWebRTCKubernetesMongoDB

2020

Maintained and scaled critical government infrastructure (dm.gov.ae), contributing to Dubai's digital-governance leadership during the COVID-19 drive.

Orchestrated containerization from on-prem Kubernetes to VMware PKS (Pivotal Container Service)
Implemented an Istio service mesh and Argo CD GitOps; migrated SVN to Git with GitLab + Jenkins
Hardened CI/CD with SonarQube scanning and stood up Prometheus + Grafana observability

KubernetesVMware PKSTerraformIstioArgo CDDocker

2018

Built core features for Mashreq Neo — the award-winning MENA branchless banking app — and the bank's digital-onboarding products in the fintech division.

Contributed to Mashreq Neo (100K+ users; most innovative digital banking app in the GCC)
Built Digital Onboarding (DOB) for sellers — CRM, Mashreq Gold & COB CASA/PL — serving 10,000+ sellers
Set up Azure Kubernetes Service and a Federation-based cluster for HA and auto-scaling

AngularNativeScriptNode.jsAzureAKSMySQL

2015

Led a team of 15 delivering cross-platform development and enterprise solutions for 300+ clients worldwide, with deep GCP and AWS expertise.

Led and managed a team of 15 across web, mobile and IoT
Provided IT consultancy to 300+ clients worldwide on architecture and chatbots
Built a government security project using OpenCV for checkpoint threat detection

Node.jsReactReact NativeGCPAWSTensorFlow

2013

Joined as a developer and advanced to Tech Lead, building UBS — a travel-booking platform aggregating real-time pricing (Sabre GDS) into end-to-end Umrah packages, with a companion mobile app.

Led development of a real-time travel-package aggregator on Sabre GDS
Shipped the mobile app covering passport retrieval, visa processing, departure and return

Node.jsPHPLaravelAngularJSEmber.jsMySQL

Portfolio

Companies I've built & scaled

From startups to government and enterprise — products and platforms I've helped ship. Tap any to visit.

Etera AI

Head of Engineering (AI)

Etera AI

Multi-Agent AI Travel Platform · G42-powered — 21+ microservices and a federated-MCP multi-agent LLM layer planning Restaurants, Experiences, Hotels & Flights.

Founder & CTO