Vol. I · Edition 265

Hani Yousif

Chronicle

Timeline

  1. 1 June 2026 · Career

    CTO & Co-founder

    Unifex · Full-time · Riyadh · Hybrid · Present

    Co-founded Unifex to solve a problem I kept seeing across a decade of enterprise work: organisations don't suffer from a lack of technology — they suffer from fragmentation. An ERP here, a national platform there, a separate app, and data scattered across systems that never speak to each other. As CTO I lead the technical direction of the company: designing integration layers and unified API strategies that bring disconnected systems into a single platform; building and scaling the team, and setting the standards, stack, and delivery process; architecting solutions aligned with Saudi regulatory requirements including Nafath, ZATCA e-invoicing, and PDPL; and owning the path from discovery and technical design through integration and production operations. Sectors: government, logistics, media, e-commerce, healthcare, and financial services. Stack: Laravel, Filament, Flutter, React, PostgreSQL, cloud infrastructure, and AI-driven automation. Building toward the digital transformation targets of Vision 2030 — with data sovereignty, scalability, and national integration designed in from day one.

  2. 1 April 2026 · Career

    Technical Team Leader & Solution Architect

    Pureminds · Full-time · Riyadh · On-site (2 mos)

    Leading the technical team and driving solution architecture across Pureminds' product portfolio — cross-platform runtimes, integrations, and the engineering practices that keep multiple products shipping in parallel.

  3. 1 May 2025 · Career

    Technical Lead / Backend Architect

    Saudi Media Forum · Contract · Riyadh · Hybrid (10 mos)

    Led the design, development, and operation of the core digital ecosystem for one of the largest media events globally. Delivered visitor and registration management, invitations (local + international), exhibitors and booth management, awards (submission → screening → judging → final evaluation), meetings and room booking, workshops and sessions, and official correspondence and content management. Owned a database schema built for high concurrency, QR-based access control for registrations and on-site check-ins, and real-time integration with mobile. Supported 65,603+ attendees and contributed to a Guinness World Record for the largest media event by attendance.

  4. 1 April 2025 · Career

    Chief Technology Officer

    REWASH · Full-time · Riyadh · Hybrid (1 yr)

    Owned the platform's technical strategy and execution — backend on Laravel, APIs powering the mobile apps and admin dashboard, and integrations with payment gateways, SMS, and WhatsApp. Introduced AI to core flows: KNN-based smart booking distribution matching orders to workers by location, availability, and performance; and AI-powered WhatsApp automation that understood inquiries, replied in context, and offered available slots dynamically. Led the engineering team, ran code reviews, and owned server infrastructure for availability, performance, and security.

  5. 1 February 2023 · Career

    Senior Full Stack Developer

    Run-X · Full-time · Riyadh · Hybrid (2 yrs 2 mos)

    Built the Run-X ERP end-to-end — order, driver, fleet, client, contract, and reporting modules — and integrated it with Salla, Zid, Good Deals, Avenzur, and Deliverect. Shipped the driver app APIs and public partner APIs. Also delivered the RunShip SaaS logistics platform (B2B, driver app, supervisor app, store dashboard) and the RunSouq multi-vendor e-commerce platform, alongside the Run-X website and store. Owned VPS operations, database, backups, and domain management.

  6. 1 January 2023 · Career

    Senior Software Developer

    Tirhal · Part-time · Remote (7 mos)

    Part-time engineering engagement in parallel with my main role — software development contributions across the Tirhal platform.

  7. 1 October 2022 · Career

    Back End Developer — moved to Riyadh

    Qparts · Full-time · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · Remote (5 mos)

    Designed the QVM and QVM Seller microservice architecture, built order-management, offer-management, wallet, and payment systems for both platforms, and shipped the admin dashboard for orders, offers, and ads. Modelled the order and offer databases and prepared the APIs the Q Stock and frontend teams consumed.

  8. 1 June 2021 · Career

    Senior Full Stack Developer

    KTL · Full-time · Khartoum, Sudan · On-site (1 yr 5 mos)

    Built backends from scratch on Laravel across delivery, restaurant, attendance, and the Maydan platform. Owned database design end-to-end — requirements, schema, normalisation — and integrated third-party services (SMS gateways, payment gateways, external APIs).

  9. 1 November 2019 · Career

    Senior Full Stack Developer

    Crème · Full-time · Khartoum, Sudan (1 yr 7 mos)

    Led the development team across multiple projects — trips-booking and wedding-hall booking apps built from scratch in Laravel, and WordPress work including e-commerce (oreeed.com) and company profiles. Also handled mobile-app UAT for the shipped products.

  10. 30 June 2018 · Award

    The Ideal Employee Award

    Investment Encouragement Commission

    Recognised for consistent delivery, technical leadership, and cross-team collaboration during my tenure at the Commission.

  11. 1 December 2015 · Career

    Full Stack Developer

    Investment Encouragement Commission · Full-time · Sudan · On-site (4 yrs)

    Led the development team on multiple systems for a national commission. Managed the full systems development life cycle — requirements gathering, database design, implementation, deployment, and maintenance — and worked directly with IT and support staff to translate user feedback into shipped features.

  12. 30 June 2014 · Education

    Graduation — Bachelor of Computer Science

    Sudan

    Completed my bachelor's degree and set my course toward backend engineering, systems design, and — a decade later — solutions architecture in the Saudi and GCC markets.