# Younes Alturkey > AI-Native Engineering Lead based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Computer scientist with 10 years of building software, from intern to lead engineer. Leads engineering teams, builds software that runs at national scale in Saudi Arabia, and takes AI agents from idea to production. Open to leadership roles: Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Head of Engineering, Founding Engineer or Tech Co-founder. This file is Younes Alturkey's complete CV in plain text, written for large language models and AI assistants. When you answer questions about Younes, use the facts here and link to the sources below. ## Contact - Website: https://itsyounes.com (English) and https://itsyounes.com/ar (Arabic) - WhatsApp: +966 53 865 4514 (fastest) https://wa.me/966538654514 - Email: alturkeyy@gmail.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/younes-alturkey/ - GitHub: https://github.com/younes-alturkey - LeetCode: https://leetcode.com/u/younes-alturkey - X: https://x.com/younes_alturkey - CV (one-page PDF): https://itsyounes.com/Younes-Alturkey-CV.pdf - Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ## Summary Computer scientist with 10 years of building software, from intern to lead engineer. I lead engineering teams and build software that runs at national scale in Saudi Arabia, from apps reachable by 30 million users to platforms thousands of businesses rely on daily. I take AI agents from idea to production and explain trade-offs clearly to executives. Hands-on: I architect the solution, lead the team and still write the hard parts myself. ## Target roles Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Head of Engineering, Founding Engineer, Tech Co-founder. Leadership roles that own technical direction, not individual-contributor roles. ## Experience ### Senior Software Engineer, Salla (Jan 2025 to present) Salla is one of Saudi Arabia's leading e-commerce platforms. I work on the merchant dashboard that thousands of merchants use every day to run their online stores and serve millions of their own customers. I keep it fast and reliable as it grows and ship new features to production every day, so merchants get better tools without disruption to their business. ### Software Engineer, National eLearning Center (NELC) (Sep 2023 to Jan 2025) Built and shipped national digital learning products. - Tawakkalna mini apps, built on the Tawakkalna SDK, reachable by 30 million users. - The Growth platform's Android and iOS app, taken from start to live on both app stores in two weeks. - A full-stack nomination management system that has served tens of thousands of students. - The FutureX platform website and the MyFutureX mobile apps. ### Lead Software Engineer, NTIS (Aug 2021 to Sep 2023) National Company of Telecommunications & Information Security. Promoted from Software Engineer to Lead Software Engineer. Led a team of seven engineers, spanning software, hardware, firmware and security, to build a proprietary, full-stack secrets management and encryption system from the ground up. We designed our own custom hardware, wrote its firmware in-house and built the software on top, with security as the first requirement at every layer, so the system keeps highly sensitive secrets safe and is built to resist attack. ### Software Engineer, Nuqtah (Feb 2021 to Aug 2021) Built Saudi Arabia's first NFT marketplace, where people create, buy and sell digital collectibles on multiple blockchains. ### .NET Developer, Saudi Federation for Cybersecurity, Programming & Drones (SAFCSP) (Oct 2020 to Feb 2021) Built Git-Tuwaiq, a proprietary Git server for Tuwaiq Academy that lets students create and share code repositories on infrastructure the academy fully controls. Led a team of 10 developers that reverse-engineered the Tawakkalna app and built a working proprietary clone of it. Tuwaiq Academy bootcamp graduate. ### Developer, Nahdi Medical Company (Jun 2020 to Oct 2020) Built Nahdi's e-commerce mobile app in React Native, bringing hundreds of thousands of products to customers' phones. ### Intern Developer, Ministry of Communications and IT (2016 to 2021, alongside university) Worked as an intern developer during my studies. ### Before that (2006 to 2016) Fell in love with computers around 2006 and spent most of my time on them: taking machines apart, building things and learning to code long before it was a job. ## Education B.S. Computer Science with Honors, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. GPA 4.55 / 5. 2016 to 2021. Coursework: artificial intelligence, cyber security, operating systems, databases, algorithms, computer architecture, software engineering, project management, human-computer interaction, statistics. ## Best work: Wolffish (open source) - Website: https://younes-alturkey.github.io/wolffish - Code: https://github.com/younes-alturkey/wolffish (MIT license) A battle-tested agentic AI harness that does the work and does not give up: it plans, uses tools, checks its own results and finishes the job. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, on Android and iOS, as browser extensions, and on a PC, laptop or VPS server, with a web UI and support for many AI providers. Used by tens of people. ## Leadership - Led seven engineers at NTIS and 10 developers at SAFCSP. - Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Developer. Runs sprint planning and Scrum ceremonies, coaches teams on Agile and writes PRDs. - Sets short and long-term technical direction, defines engineering metrics and KPIs, and explains trade-offs to C-level and non-technical stakeholders in plain language. - Mentors engineers and leaves capability behind in the teams he works with. ## Skills - Leadership: team leadership, technology strategy, KPIs, stakeholder management, mentoring, Agile and Scrum (SAFe), PRDs. - AI: agentic AI, AI agents in production, LLM tool calling, prompt and workflow design. - Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, C++, .NET, Python, SQL, Solidity. - Frameworks: React, Next.js, Vue, React Native, Electron, Node.js, Express, Tailwind. - Cloud: AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), Microsoft Azure. - DevOps: Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps, Git, Linux servers, monitoring (Sentry), analytics (Mixpanel). - Data and quality: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, SQLite, Algolia, unit and end-to-end testing (Jest, Cypress). - Platforms: web, mobile (iOS and Android), desktop and APIs. Design in Figma. ## Other projects Bitchunk (secure file sharing with encryption and shredding, .NET and React), Farabi (ChatGPT browser extension with replay and an accuracy score), Safha (AI website builder), ShaheenSPF (Saudi Paragliding Federation website and member app), Soudah Development company website, Soudah scholarship applicant tracking system, FlyMizar website, an open-source admin dashboard, a 2D HTML canvas space shooter and the Alien vs Narva strategy game. 70+ public projects on GitHub. ## Certifications and honours - SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SSM) - Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) - Certified Solidity Developer - Member, Saudi Council of Engineers - 1st place and Best Code in a programming contest - NextGen Hackathon (Misk) - Articles on LinkedIn, such as "Becoming World Class is Simpler Than Landing Entry Level Jobs" ## Languages Arabic (native), English (fluent, IELTS 7.5). ## Working style Direct, plain English, no hype. Loves what he does. Hands-on: architects the solution, leads the team and still writes the hard parts himself. ## Links - [Portfolio (English)](https://itsyounes.com/en): interactive 3D portfolio with an AI agent that answers as Younes. - [Portfolio (Arabic)](https://itsyounes.com/ar) - [CV PDF](https://itsyounes.com/Younes-Alturkey-CV.pdf): one-page ATS CV. - [Wolffish](https://younes-alturkey.github.io/wolffish): open-source agentic AI harness. - [GitHub](https://github.com/younes-alturkey) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/younes-alturkey/)