Builder PM · Egypt → Global

I find the gap between what people need and what exists. Then I ship it.

6+industries
11+years of experience
5+shipped independent products

Story

Flower to roots.

Now2025–presentNOW

AI Builder PM

Most PMs hand off a spec and wait. I hand off working code. I use AI to collapse the distance between idea and reality, prototyping before the sprint starts and validating before the build begins. Strategy and implementation, in the same person.

Growth2022–2024

Strategist across 3 product lines

Three product lines at once: Fleet, Grocery, B2B e-commerce. Not just shipping, but shipping the right bets. Prioritization driven by OKRs, ruthless focus on high impact moves, and teams aligned around outcomes, not features.

Transition2021–2022

Engineer who fell in love with users

Built the coaching engine, shipped it, and watched users use it wrong. That was the moment. I didn't want to just build what was specced. I wanted to own the full cycle: find the problem, shape the solution, deliver it, and iterate until it actually lands.

Root2017–2021

The Engineer

Flutter before it was mainstream. React Native when it was still rough. Swift, ML, iWatch integrations. Always hands on with the newest stack, and always shipping production quality solutions, not prototypes.

Foundation2012–2021, Cairo University

The Researcher

BSc and MSc in Operations Research at the Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Cairo University. Published at HCII 2019. Spent years modeling complex systems, forming rigorous hypotheses, and letting evidence lead. That discipline still runs underneath everything I build.

Read published paper

What I Do

Three things I do well, in that order.

Own the Problem

Strategy, roadmap, market fit.

Every strong product starts with a clearly defined problem. I map the gap, understand who loses what and why, then build the strategy and roadmap that earns alignment and drives the right bets in the right order.

Build the Solution

Validate, prototype, experiment.

I design seamless solutions for complicated, high-friction problems. I use AI capabilities to validate assumptions, prototype rapidly, run experiments, and present clear paths forward to fill the gap between the problem and a working answer.

Deliver the Outcome

Revenue, adoption, scale.

Shipped is a starting point, not a finish line. I instrument what matters, track what moves, and run the iterations that turn a live product into a number that's actually real. Revenue, retention, adoption, whichever matters most here.

Work

Products I've shaped.

B2B SaaS
Nawrix AI Search

Nawrix AI Search

2025 – Present

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Robusta Group

Retailers were losing customers to search bars that couldn't handle misspellings, synonyms, and Arabic. I built a hybrid AI search engine that thinks in both languages, scaling to 200M+ queries across MENA's top grocery, electronics, and beauty retailers in 12 months.

Search Optimization
B2B Platforms

Fleet / Garage Management

2023 – 2024

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Robusta Group

Led product delivery for enterprise fleet tracking and garage operations, improving visibility and workflows for large-scale clients. Drove roadmap decisions through usability testing and stakeholder interviews across multiple enterprise accounts.

Enterprise operations

Raya B2B / Jumlaty

2022 – Present

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Robusta Group · Nomu Group

B2B e-commerce platform spanning two companies and multiple business lines, with OKR-driven roadmaps and cross-functional delivery. Managed feature prioritization across Tech, Design, and Data teams aligned to commercial goals.

Cross-client delivery
B2C & B2B Platforms

Rayashop & Spinneys

2023 – 2024

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Robusta Group

Overhauled retail search and merchandising for two of Egypt's top grocery platforms using 65+ boosting rules, synonym matching, and seasonal frameworks. Tripled search volume in a single quarter, scaling from 2.5M to 7.8M monthly searches.

3× search volume · 1 quarter

Appetito

2022 – 2023

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Nomu Group

Revamped the top pages of Egypt's leading B2C grocery app through data-driven UX improvements and user research. Increased user satisfaction by 20% while managing KSA tech migration and multi-country stakeholder alignment.

+20% user satisfaction

Nawy

2017 – 2021

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Optomatica

Built the Flutter mobile app for one of Egypt's leading real estate property discovery platforms. Delivered a cross-platform experience with clean architecture and seamless search and listing flows.

Flutter · Real estate
Sports Tech
Racemate

Racemate

2021 – 2022

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Optomatica

Engineered the coaching brain behind real-time running and racing apps: pacing strategy, sensor data, results analytics, and iWatch integration. Built before I ever held a PM title — the product that made me want to own the full problem.

Pre-PM · Full engineering
RaceId

RaceId

2017 – 2021

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Optomatica · Novelari

React Native sports coaching app for Running and Ski, with live sensor integration for race timing and athlete performance tracking. Built front-end interfaces for Julia-based ML algorithms and iWatch integration in Swift.

Running · Ski · Sensor integration

Built by Me

Builder PM in action.

I don't just spec products. I ship them.

Post-Signature Contract Platform

Post-Signature Contract Platform

Apr 2026

Built an AI platform that reads across your entire contract portfolio to surface valuable data for different personas and stakeholders to ease actions and decision making.

ReplitClaude CodeGitHubVercel
Luxury Limousine Booking

Luxury Limousine Booking

Mar 2026

Designed and shipped a premium mobile booking experience for Egypt's oldest luxury car service. Full design system, live price estimates, and zero dev team.

LovableClaude Code
Kids Canvas (Alwany)

Kids Canvas (Alwany)

Jan 2026

Designed a child-safe art sharing space with no likes, no discovery feed, no ads. Just parental control and Claude-powered content moderation, by design.

LovableClaude CodeVS CodeGitHub

Skills

What I bring to the table.

Product Thinking
LLMsSemantic SearchNLPStrategyValidationRoadmappingB2B SaaSOKRsA/B TestingMetrics
Tech Stack
FlutterPythonJavaScriptJuliaReact NativeSwiftClaude CodeLovableReplitGoogle AI Studio
Analytics & Tools
MixpanelTableauSQLJiraScrumNotionMiro

Contact

Let's build something worth shipping.

If you're building something that needs both a strategist and a builder, I'd love to hear about it. Let's talk.

© 2026 Laila Zahran · Egypt

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