I'm a software engineer from Sulaimani. I help foreign companies land in Iraq and keep running here — housing, transport, permits, suppliers, staff — and I build the software and reporting once you're operating.
Some companies want a person on the payroll who already knows the country. Others just need a job done and someone accountable for it. I do both.
A locally-based engineer with a business background, fluent in English, who can sit in a technical role and also handle the parts of Iraq that don't translate — banks, ministries, landlords, contractors, customs.
Fixed-scope work with one point of contact, quoted in writing, in English, at real local prices. Whether it's one week of vehicles and hotels or a full office set up before your team lands.
Most of what slows a foreign company down in Iraq isn't the work itself — it's everything around it. This is the part I handle.
The technical side of what I do, in case you're hiring for it.
A human-in-the-loop OCR and document analysis platform for Sorani Kurdish — a language with very little digital text and a long history of non-Unicode fonts that break every off-the-shelf tool. The platform handles multi-column newspaper layouts, rebuilds the document structure, supports bulk processing and export, and includes an annotation tool for tagging words so the output can be used to fine-tune Kurdish language models.
Work on positioning a licensed intermediary to enable Apple Pay and Google Pay in Iraq, aligned with the Central Bank of Iraq's digital transformation mandate. Alongside it, an operating business in digital services and mobile credit distribution — which means I deal with Iraqi payment rails, wallets and settlement in practice, not just on paper.
Structured workbooks and analysis built from messy real-world sources — wallet exports, paper ledgers, receipts — with live formulas and toggles so the numbers can be re-cut without re-running anything. I also build spend analysis tooling that reads bank transactions and breaks costs down by merchant and location.
I hold a BSc in Software Engineering with a minor in Business Administration from the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani — an American-curriculum university where everything is taught and examined in English. That combination is the point: I can write the code and read the contract.
I grew up here and I work here. I know which ministry office to walk into, which contractor finishes on time, what a fair price is, and what the difference is between how things work in Erbil, in Baghdad, and in Basra. For a company arriving from abroad, that knowledge is usually the expensive part.
Whether you need someone on your team or someone on contract, you get one person who is accountable, reachable, and writes to you in plain English.
Send me the situation — a visit to plan, an office to open, a role to fill — and you'll get a straight answer on whether I can help and what it costs. I reply within one working day.