MS Mohamad Shamia

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Mohamad Shamia

Solution Architect Software Engineering Manager

Solution Architect and engineering leader with 14+ years designing and delivering enterprise software, large-scale government integrations, and AI-powered products. Deep expertise in Apigee, .NET microservices, and event-driven systems, combined with hands-on Generative and Agentic AI.

  • Apigee
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure
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Years in software
14+
Years on Apigee
7+
Years in Generative AI
3+
Industry certifications
7
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Experience

Ministry of Justice (MOJ)

Riyadh, KSA Oct 2018 – Present

8 years

  1. Solution Architect

    • Own end-to-end architecture for MOJ digital services and government integrations, authoring Solution Architecture Documents covering components, integration flows, security, and NFRs.
    • Architected an AI agent for the Najez Developers platform that lets developers discover services, manage their apps, and request permissions conversationally; built the POC with Agentic AI on LangGraph.
    • Define API-first standards and gateway patterns on Apigee X: security, throttling, versioning, and observability.
    • Design scalable, highly available backend and mobile solutions (.NET, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Flutter).
    • Lead cross-team design reviews and shape the technology roadmap with business stakeholders.

  2. Development Manager

    • Led development and integration teams delivering MOJ services, owning planning, execution, and quality from requirements to production.
    • Ran sprint planning, prioritization, and resource allocation under Agile/Scrum to ship on schedule.
    • Standardized engineering practice: code review guidelines, branching strategy, and Azure DevOps CI/CD for .NET and Apigee.
    • Improved system architecture and scaled services for flexibility and high availability.
    • Coached engineers and coordinated with government entities and partners on onboarding and incident resolution.

  3. Technical Team Leader — Integration

    • Led the integration team; built and deployed Apigee API proxies and designed CI/CD for .NET and Apigee services.
    • Delivered services with .NET, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, and SQL Server; managed priorities and mentored engineers.

  4. Senior .NET Developer

    • SAMA integration: delivered 25+ services between MOJ and the Saudi Central Bank end to end — network layer, integration points, development, troubleshooting, and Azure DevOps deployment.
    • Tableegh & Notifications: developed MOJ's official notification system and its publish/subscribe platform.
    • Designed and built B2B e-government integrations (NIC, MC, CMA, SIMAH) and Apigee API proxies.
    • Owned production servers and multi-environment deployments (DevOps).

    Stack .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, C#, WCF, EF, SQL Server, Hangfire, RabbitMQ, Apigee, Elasticsearch, Azure DevOps

GulfPicasso.com

Co-Founder Jan 2024 – Present

Generative AI
  • Building Generative AI products focused on image-generation models and fine-tuning for customized outputs.
  • Developed Python AI services (FastAPI, PyTorch) and user-driven training that fine-tunes custom models on individual datasets.
  • Led AWS and GCP infrastructure with Docker and GPU instances; tuned PostgreSQL for high-volume workloads.

Earlier career

.NET Web Developer

Taqneen Est., Jeddah

Designed and developed Moroori; contributed to Alkawader and Dyafat (ASP.NET Boilerplate, DDD, Web API).

.NET Web Developer

Al-Motkamel Group

Built a medical courses platform, ticketing and workflow portal; contributed to a Ministry of Health app and the SNIPER GPS tracking system.

Freelance Developer

Independent

Delivered the Alaman Plast website, an e-school platform, a vehicle management system for security forces in Makkah, and a PLC control app for plastic injection machines.

02

Expertise

Architecture & Leadership

  • Solution Architecture
  • Integration Design
  • API-First
  • Microservices
  • DDD
  • Design Patterns
  • Agile / Scrum
  • Team Leadership

API Management

  • Apigee X
  • Apigee Edge
  • API Security
  • Proxy Development
  • API CI/CD

Backend

  • C#
  • .NET Core
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • REST
  • WCF / SOAP
  • Entity Framework
  • Python
  • FastAPI

AI & Data

  • Generative AI
  • Agentic AI
  • LangGraph
  • LLMs
  • PyTorch
  • Fine-tuning
  • Computer Vision
  • Data Mining

Messaging & Search

  • RabbitMQ
  • Pub/Sub
  • Hangfire
  • Elasticsearch
  • Elastic APM

Cloud & DevOps

  • Google Cloud
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker
  • Azure DevOps
  • Git
  • CI/CD

Databases

  • SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL

Core strengths

  1. Full Lifecycle Delivery

    Requirements, design, coding, integration, and release.

  2. Engineering Leadership

    Leading teams, setting priorities, growing engineers.

  3. Analytical Problem Solving

    Researching technical challenges and finding solutions.

  4. Strong OOP Foundations

    Design patterns, dependency injection, clean architecture.

  5. Continuous Learning

    Google Cloud, Azure, and Apigee certified.

03

Credentials

Certifications

  • Google
    Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
  • Google
    Apigee On-Premises Installation & Fundamentals
  • Google
    Develop and Secure APIs with Apigee X
  • Google
    API Security on Apigee API Platform
  • Google
    API Design & Fundamentals of Apigee
  • Microsoft
    Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204)
  • Microsoft
    Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
  • Hajj Hackathon
    Hajj Hackathon & Guinness World Record

Education

  • M.Sc. Web Science Syrian Virtual University
  • B.Sc. Informatics Engineering Syrian Virtual University

Hackathons

04

Let's talk

Open to architecture, integration, and AI conversations.

Email mshamia1988@gmail.com Phone +966 55 177 6934 LinkedIn in/mohamad-shamia