From engineering architecture and mobile performance to leadership and career growth, I share practical lessons from building and scaling real-world technology products.
September 2026 · Tabby HQ · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
A Production Story of Improving App Performance by 30%
How baseline measurement, bottleneck analysis and targeted fixes turn performance work into results that can be measured in production.
31 March 2026 · Tamara HQ · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Mastering Mobile App Performance
A hands-on approach to observing performance, finding bottlenecks and retaining improvements with baseline profiles.
July 2025 · Amman, Jordan
Mastering Performance with Baseline Profiling & Benchmarking
Practical Android performance engineering with baseline profiles and benchmarks.
December 2024 · Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Your App, Your Way: The Power of Personalization
Building more useful app experiences through personalization, with engineering choices grounded in user needs.
25 February 2024 · Lahore, Pakistan
Code to Cloud in Minutes using AWS CodePipeline for Mobile Apps
Connecting mobile development and cloud delivery through automated build and release pipelines.
January 2024 · Amman, Jordan
Talk theme: App personalization with Firebase
Using Firebase to tailor mobile experiences and make applications more relevant to the people using them.
December 2023 · Lahore, Pakistan
Elevating User Engagement with Firebase and VertexAI
Exploring how Firebase and Vertex AI can support more useful user experiences.
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Payments & financial systems
Explore payment orchestration, reconciliation and audit trails for financial systems that remain traceable as they scale.
Explore the session →Cloud architecture & AWS
Explore how to integrate Amazon Personalize into an existing product, using user events and product data for real-time recommendations.
Explore the session →Mobile engineering & performance
Explore Android macrobenchmarking, microbenchmarking and Baseline Profiles, with CI automation and continuous performance monitoring.
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Across communities and continents
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A practical slide deck on observing app performance and diagnosing issues.
View Slides →A slide deck about sharing your work and building professional relationships.
View Slides →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.
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.
Additional event listings from my public Sessionize profile.
December 2025
AWS Community Day Lahore · Mobile Developers Week Abu Dhabi · DevFest Emirates, Dubai
November 2024
Devfest Milano · Droidcon Uganda · Droidcon & Fluttercon Kenya
August 2024
Google I/O Extended, Sharjah
January 2024
Tech Tehwaar, Lahore
December 2023
DevFest Sri Lanka, Colombo
November 2023
Notion Community Day, Lahore
I’m open to speaking opportunities at technology conferences, developer communities, universities and engineering events.
