Abid Jamil — Speaker Media Kit

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Contact: abidjamil222@gmail.com
Sessionize: https://sessionize.com/abidjamil
Professional photo: https://abidjamil.com/assets/abid-speaking.jpg

SHORT BIO
Abid Jamil is an engineering leader, author and international technology speaker based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. As Engineering Manager at Gathern, he works across Growth and Fintech. His talks connect architecture, mobile performance, leadership and career growth with lessons from real production environments.

MEDIUM BIO
Abid Jamil is an Engineering Manager at Gathern in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with over a decade of experience building products and leading engineering teams. His work spans scalable architecture, payment platforms, financial systems and mobile performance. He has held engineering and leadership roles at Kahunas, DubiCars, Jugnu Tech and GrocerApp, alongside his work as Co-Founder and CTO of Anaar, where he builds products for his own use and develops them into services for clients. An author, researcher and former university lecturer, Abid shares practical lessons through conferences, developer communities and universities. He is the author of The Engineer’s Operating System and Crack Backend Interviews. His speaking topics include system architecture, Android performance, engineering leadership, career development and AI-assisted software development.

TOPICS
Engineering Architecture
- Scalable systems and microservices
- Cloud-native engineering
- Payments and fintech architecture
- Production reliability and performance

Mobile Engineering
- Android performance optimization
- Baseline Profiles and benchmarking
- Mobile application architecture
- Observability and performance measurement

Engineering Leadership
- Scaling engineering teams
- Technical decision-making
- Engineering ownership and business outcomes
- Managing technical debt

Career Growth and AI
- AI-assisted software development
- Building an engineering career beyond coding
- Technical visibility and personal branding
- Learning, networking and knowledge sharing

Website: https://abidjamil.com