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Rayan Alkhelaiwi.
Software Craftsmanship.
Engineering leader with over a decade building scalable, on-premises government and commercial platforms. Currently leading engineering teams at NCAI, SDAIA.
About
Hey! This is Rayan. I grew from hands-on engineering to leading multiple teams, building scalable, on-premises platforms for government and commercial sectors.
My current focus is engineering enablement and AI-accelerated delivery.
Core skills I’ve been working with:
Leadership
- Engineering Strategy
- Hiring & Team Building
- Stakeholder Management
- Agile & Scrum
System Design
- Microservices
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Domain-Driven Design
- Hexagonal Architecture
Development
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Gradle
- Ruby on Rails
- Python
Data & AI
- PostgreSQL
- StarRocks
- Redis
- RabbitMQ
- Agentic Engineering
Platform & DevOps
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Linux
- CI/CD
- Prometheus
- Grafana
Experience
Director of Software Engineering, Operational Products at Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority
Jul 2025 – Present
- Lead multiple engineering teams that deliver various government platforms at the National Center for AI (NCAI)
- Lead the sector’s AI-assisted engineering mandate, from coding-agent evaluation to on-premise roll-out
- Set engineering standards and shared-service integrations; established an observability baseline
- Built a structured hiring program (interview process, take-home assessments) to streamline on-boarding
Principal Software Engineer
Nov 2022 – Jun 2025
- Led the development of the Insights sector’s backend products at the National Information Center (NIC)
- Optimized microservices, database queries, and APIs for low latency and high throughput
- Improved engineering standards and tooling; mentored engineers through design and code reviews
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering
North Carolina A&T State UniversityJanuary 2012 - December 2016
Diploma in English as a Second Language
University of North Carolina at GreensboroOctober 2010 - December 2011
Projects
Featured Project
Intelligent Insights Platform
LLM-powered microservices that generate insights for decision-makers.
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Kafka
- StarRocks
- PostgreSQL
- Llama3
- React
Featured Project
Data Analytics & Insights Platform
A data analytics platform that serves advanced insights and presenting them through interactive dashboards and visualizations.
- Java
- Spring Boot
- PostgreSQL
- ReactJS
Featured Project
Mrsool for Business Portal
Backend features powering partner catalog and order processing.
- Ruby on Rails
- MySQL
- RSpec
- Sidekiq
- VueJS
Other Projects
view the archiveURL on Proxy Validator
Revamped web app validating URLs on ISPs’ proxies for Internet Filtering.
Search Engine Dynamic Scraper
A web scraping tool that aggregates search results from multiple dynamic search results pages.
URL Bookmark API
A RESTful API for managing URL bookmarks.
Guardian News App
An Android news reader application that fetches and displays headline articles on user search from The Guardian's API.
GitHub User Grabber
A React Native mobile application that fetches and displays GitHub user profile and info via their user handler, using the GitHub REST API.
Professional Portfolio v1
The first iteration of my professional portfolio website built with Bootstrap and jQuery, featuring a clean resume-style layout.
Certifications
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