Cairo — Origins
Born and raised in Cairo — the city that shaped a lifelong fascination with how people move through dense, complex urban environments.
Montreal — McGill Engineering
Completed a Bachelor of Civil Engineering at McGill with a 3.81 GPA, earning the Dean's Honor List and the Charles H. Ivey Foundation Scholarship.
Cairo — Transport for Cairo
Co-founded Transport for Cairo, mapping informal transit networks and calculating accessibility for millions of residents using Python, QGIS, and crowd-sourced data.
Cambridge, MA — MIT Research
Earned two Master's degrees at MIT in Transportation and Urban Planning, researching travel demand modeling from call records and the effects of new transit infrastructure.
San Francisco — StreetLight Data
Joined StreetLight Data as Learning Services Product Manager, designing training programs and driving a 40% increase in monthly active users.
New York — StreetLight / Jacobs
Currently Product Manager and Owner at StreetLight Data (Jacobs), leading a traffic safety analytics platform serving 3,000+ counties across the US.
I work at the intersection of cities, data, and products. My foundation is in civil and transportation engineering, trained at McGill and MIT, but my career has taken me from mapping Cairo's informal transit networks on the ground to building products that serve transportation professionals across thousands of public agencies.
I'm most at home when a problem is technically complex but needs to be communicated clearly: turning large mobility datasets into decisions, translating user research into product roadmaps, or explaining why a city's accessibility looks completely different depending on how you measure it. Along the way I've built fluency in Python, SQL, GIS, and data visualization, not as ends in themselves, but as tools for understanding how people move and what gets in their way.
What drives me is the belief that good urban data, handled well, can make cities meaningfully more equitable and efficient. That's what got me into research, it's what keeps me in product, and it's what I'm still trying to do.
Travel demand modeling from call detail records, fuel consumption analysis using big data, and agent-based simulation of policy effects on driver behavior. Published in Transportation Research Record.
Multimodal accessibility analysis, micromobility integration, and informal transit network mapping. Research applied to Cairo's transit system in collaboration with Transport for Cairo.
