Engineered Egypt’s first comprehensive secure online payment gateway from the ground up, addressing national banking infrastructure challenges related to online fraud and capital flight. The platform scaled post-funding to process 33% of all domestic air travel ticketing throughput across Egypt.

//Engineering Impact

• ->Built and launched the primary payment processing engine solo to secure market traction
• ->Scaled to handle 33% of all domestic air travel ticketing throughput across Egypt
• ->Deployed 1-second asynchronous queue loops to manage transaction spikes without blocking user traffic
• ->Implemented master-slave MySQL replication for high availability and reduced disk I/O overhead
• ->Developed a defensive transactional state machine ensuring SLA compliance during external timeouts
• ->Integrated with Amadeus Global Distribution System for real-time flight seat allocation

//Edge Cases Managed

• ->Extreme transaction spikes
• ->External bank gateway timeouts
• ->Local network dropouts
• ->High-availability requirements under market restrictions