Engineering products.
Building ventures.

Entrepreneur, senior integration specialist, and technical team lead based in Riyadh. I combine enterprise engineering with hands-on experience founding software ventures and delivering digital products.

Entrepreneurship · Technical leadership · Product development

Portrait of Abdulaziz Aldawood
ENGINEER & FOUNDER

VENTURES & PROJECTS

Selected
work.

A portfolio spanning software ventures, business platforms, and digital products. Explore delivered work alongside ongoing development, prototypes, and collaborations.

37 PROJECTS & VENTURES

EXPERIENCE

Professional
experience.

Enterprise integration, technical leadership, and company building across public-sector organizations and entrepreneurial ventures.

2024 — Present
MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCES & SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Sr. Integration Specialist · Team Lead

Current role

Leading API and service integration using IBM API Connect, ACE, and DataPower; monitoring high-traffic services with ELK and Instana.

2022 — 2024
SPL · SAUDI POST

Integration Developer → Senior Integration Engineer

Working across API, data, and event-driven integration with WSO2, ASP.NET, and government systems.

2021 — 2022
STC PLAY

Software Engineer

Built Node.js analytics APIs and supported data migration and reporting workflows.

2020 — 2021
SAUDI FOOD & DRUG AUTHORITY

Software Engineering Specialist · Technical Team Lead

Contributed to the Tameni consumer app and related product-information integrations.

2019
TERS

Full Stack Developer

Built web features with Angular and Spring Boot.

Entrepreneurial experience

2022 — Present
DEVOLOGY

Co-Founder · CTO

Co-founding a software services venture and guiding delivery of digital products for clients.

2021 — Present
FUNART GAMES

Founder · Game Developer / Designer

Building games and interactive work with Unity, Unreal Engine, and 3D production tools.

2018 — 2021
GONSOLE

Co-Founder · CTO

Led engineering for a gaming marketplace across its app, website, APIs, payments, and analytics.

Full experience on LinkedIn

CAPABILITIES

What I bring
to a business.

Engineering depth, technical team leadership, and practical experience developing products and software ventures.

Connect

Architecture and integration across services, data, and organizations.

  • API management & governance
  • IBM API Connect, ACE & DataPower
  • WSO2 · Microservices · Observability

Build

Hands-on product engineering across backend, web, mobile, and desktop.

  • Node.js · TypeScript · ASP.NET
  • React · Next.js · Angular
  • Flutter · Expo · Electron · SQL

Lead & develop

Guiding technical teams and shaping software ventures from concept to delivery.

  • Technical team leadership
  • SaaS product direction
  • Venture founding & client delivery

ABOUT

An engineering foundation.
An entrepreneurial mindset.

I’m a Riyadh-based engineer and entrepreneur with experience leading enterprise integration and co-founding software ventures. My work spans public-sector service integration, client product delivery, SaaS platforms, and interactive products. I bring a hands-on engineering approach to established organizations and early-stage ventures.

EDUCATIONB.S. Computer Science
King Saud University
LANGUAGESArabic & English
INTERESTSStartups · AI · 3D