An architect who still builds.

I am Amer Ghazal, a software architect in Dubai. Over ten years that has meant web products sold to customers I never met, client systems under German data-protection law, a ground station and docking control for a marine craft, release engineering and mission software for drones, and, with my team at Micropolis, the autonomy software for ground robots working in public places.

I draw the boundaries, then write the C++, the ROS 2 nodes, the dashboards and the release pipelines that make them real. A design I cannot implement is only an opinion.

I read safety standards such as UL 4600 and ISO 21448 for their vocabulary, because one shared word for a hazard settles arguments that code cannot. I write decision records and specifications, and I judge student engineers and young robot builders with the question I ask at work: does it do what you said it would?