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I build scalable products,and the teams behind them.
I'm Laith, Senior Software Engineering Manager at Careem. I help businesses grow their products and their teams through thoughtful, user-centric engineering.
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MetaMajid Al FuttaimForbesFounder · EstoulCreator · GuideScript
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Featured essay
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What Scaling an Engineering Team Taught Me
The move from engineering to leadership is a change of job, not a promotion. What actually scales as a team grows, and the lessons I keep coming back to from founding Estoul and leading teams at Majid Al Futtaim and Careem.
Engineering Leadership Teams Management
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MCP and the Case for Boring, Standard Tools
AI MCP
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Evals Are the New Unit Tests
AI Testing
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Doing More With Less: Leading Teams After the Layoffs
Engineering Leadership Teams
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Shipping AI Agents Without Embarrassing Yourself
AI Agents
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Six Months of AI Pair Programming
AI Developer Productivity
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Platform Engineering and the End of the Ops Ticket
Platform Engineering Developer Experience
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React Server Components Changed How I Think About the Frontend
React Next.js
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Building the Ski Dubai App with React Native
React Native Mobile Development
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RAG: Context Beats a Bigger Model
AI LLMs
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The TypeScript I Actually Reach For
Javascript Learning
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Prompt Engineering Is Just Engineering
AI LLMs
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What ChatGPT Actually Changes for Engineering Teams
AI Engineering Leadership