▸ TECH LEAD · FINTECH · AGENTIC AI

Islam Magdy

Modernizing regulated mortgage platforms with serverless architecture, engineering leadership, and practical AI tooling.

[email protected] (+31) 658 715 620 LinkedIn

Profile

Tech Lead with 15+ years of experience modernizing regulated financial platforms, building scalable serverless systems, and leading cross-functional engineering teams. Currently leading mortgage-platform modernization at Nationale-Nederlanden, with a background spanning high-traffic e-commerce and a co-founded ride-hailing startup built from zero to production.

Focus Areas

Technical Stack

Experience

Nationale-Nederlanden — Tech Lead

– Present · Rotterdam, Netherlands

Leading a cross-functional team of 7 — 4 engineers, a UX designer, and customer journey specialists — to modernize mortgage technology at one of the Netherlands' largest financial institutions.

Key Achievements

  • Automated loan redemption flows — Built end-to-end automation across hundreds of thousands of active loans, including repayment simulations, full redemptions, and yearly overview generation

  • Built and owned Atlas — Shipped an internal agentic CLI for PR review, sprint support, and backlog assistance; now embedded in the team's daily engineering workflow

  • Scaled AI capability building — Designed and facilitated a full-day hands-on CrewAI workshop for ~21 engineers across the mortgage domain

  • Modernized legacy services — Migrated mortgage-servicing components from Java to serverless Node.js, removing specialist maintenance overhead and aligning the stack

  • Raised delivery quality — Established architecture standards while deploying automation that reduced manual steps in advisor workflows

    Nationale-Nederlanden

Nationale-Nederlanden — Senior Full Stack Engineer

– · Rotterdam, Netherlands

Built mortgage management tools giving clients better visibility and control over their loan portfolios.

Highlights

  • Developed repayment tools — Built client-facing applications for mortgage repayment simulation and execution

  • Unified tech stack — Integrated Node.js services with AWS infrastructure for seamless data flow

  • Enhanced UX — Collaborated with design teams to deliver intuitive client-facing interfaces

  • Optimized performance — Improved API response times and frontend load speeds

    Nationale-Nederlanden

VNGRS — Senior Full Stack Engineer

– · Istanbul, Turkey · Dubai, UAE · Cairo, Egypt

Delivered high-impact solutions for major retail and e-commerce clients across the Middle East and US, working with globally distributed teams.

  • Built Serverless APIs at scale — Designed and implemented backend services for consumer mobile apps serving millions of users

  • Cross-platform delivery — Contributed to both web applications and React Native mobile apps

  • Distributed-first — Maintained consistent delivery cadence across 3+ time zones for 3 years

    Selected clients and products

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Sheenvalue — Technical Lead

– · Egypt

Led engineering for a K-12 education technology platform, shaping product delivery across web and mobile teams.

  • Led engineering team — Managed engineers building front-ends and back-ends for Sheenvalue's education products

  • Built educational apps — Curriculum and Student Management system for K-12 schools

  • Shipped mobile — Built StoryFile mobile app using React Native

  • Established standards — Introduced solid engineering practices, code review culture, and development tooling

Hataxi — Co-Founder & Technical Lead

– · Cairo, Egypt

Co-founded a ride-hailing startup and built the technical foundation from zero to production while balancing ongoing engineering leadership work.

  • Built from scratch — Architected high-throughput APIs, real-time driver matching, and operations admin console

  • Location services — Implemented MongoDB geospatial queries for real-time driver tracking and matching

  • Scalable infrastructure — Designed system to sustain production-grade load at peak concurrent usage

    Hataxi

SkyKode — Technical Lead

– · USA

Led development of KodingLab, an educational SaaS platform for computer science programs at colleges and universities.

  • Built from scratch — Architected the entire platform foundation: browser-based IDE, auto-grading engine, real-time student-instructor collaboration

  • Led distributed team — Managed engineers in Egypt; established coding standards and development workflows

  • Knowledge transfer — Coached team members on modern technologies, code quality, and engineering best practices

    SkyKode KodingLab product video thumbnail Watch video KodingLab education platform video thumbnail Watch video

Elmenus — Senior Front-End Engineer

· Cairo, Egypt · Contract

Delivered a short-term contract for Egypt's leading restaurant discovery platform, building the search module from scratch.

Elmenus

Mostaqqel — Senior Front-End Engineer

– · Cairo, Egypt

Led front-end delivery for Egypt's first freelancing platform, later Worcbox; adopted Web Components early and implemented real-time WebSocket features.

Nilecode — Senior Front-End Engineer

– · Cairo, Egypt

Built and recovered client projects as JavaScript-heavy front-end work became the center of modern web delivery.

Freelance Front-End Engineer

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Delivered client projects across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the US while building the foundation for a long-term engineering career.

Projects

For a full list of the projects I've worked on, and for more information, please check my LinkedIn profile.