Mubin Shaikh

Department of Economy & Tourism, Govt of Dubai - XebiaTechnical Lead | Aug 2024 - Present- Led the solution architecture for the Department of Economy & Tourism's digital investment platform across identity, payments, and licensing domains, on behalf of a Government of Dubai entity. Chose Kafka-based event propagation over distributed transactions to keep services independently deployable. Investor onboarding dropped from 120s to 20s.- Designed the AI/ML compliance pipeline (rule-based validation, ML risk scoring, document classification) and the event schemas and data contracts ML consumers reuse, establishing how AI integrates safely into a regulated government platform. Manual review volume dropped 60%.- Led adoption of AI-assisted engineering across 8+ teams: AI tooling for ADR generation, documentation, and code review using ClaudeCode, Codex, and Gemini. Onboarding went from months to weeks.- Authored ADRs governing decisions across concurrent digital initiatives; ran change-impact analysis when proposals touched third parties, peer government entities, or shared integration services.- Built the payment gateway integration layer (DubaiPay, Noqodi) for multi-channel, regulatory-compliant transaction processing. MTTR down 70%.

• - Led the solution architecture for the Department of Economy & Tourism's digital investment platform across identity, payments, and

licensing domains, on behalf of a Government of Dubai entity. Chose Kafka-based event propagation over distributed transactions to

keep services independently deployable. Investor onboarding dropped from 120s to 20s.

• - Designed the AI/ML compliance pipeline (rule-based validation, ML risk scoring, document classification) and the event schemas and data contracts ML consumers reuse, establishing how AI integrates safely into a regulated government platform. Manual review volume

dropped 60%.

• - Led adoption of AI-assisted engineering across 8+ teams: AI tooling for ADR generation, documentation, and code review using Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini. Onboarding went from months to weeks.

• - Authored ADRs governing decisions across concurrent digital initiatives; ran change-impact analysis when proposals touched third

parties, peer government entities, or shared integration services.

• - Built the payment gateway integration layer (DubaiPay, Noqodi) for multi-channel, regulatory-compliant transaction processing. MTTR down 70%.

• - Built a horizontally scalable fiat / crypto payment gateway across multiple payment rails with partition-based scaling, circuit breakers, and bulkheads. 99.95% uptime, sub-200ms p99, headroom for 300% throughput growth at zero downtime.

• - Built the real-time streaming platform on Kafka Streams and MongoDB processing 1M+ events/day, powering analytics and automated

anomaly detection.

• - Implemented the security and compliance model for digital asset transactions: regulatory controls, automated audit trails, and fraud detection.

• - Led migration from monolith to microservices; infrastructure costs dropped 67%.