RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA

I connect systems.
I build products.

Senior integration specialist and team lead with a builder’s instinct. I work across enterprise APIs, software ventures, and interactive experiences.

Integration leadership · Product engineering · Game development

Portrait of Abdulaziz Aldawood
ENGINEER & FOUNDER

PORTFOLIO

Selected
work.

Products, platforms, games, and experiments. Some are live; others are prototypes or collaborative work. Each has a different problem at its center.

37 PROJECTS & VENTURES

EXPERIENCE

The work
behind the work.

From government service integration to building companies and games, my career has moved between large systems and early ideas.

2024 — NOW
MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCES & SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Sr. Integration Specialist · Team Lead

Leading API and service integration using IBM API Connect, ACE, and DataPower; monitoring high-traffic services with ELK and Instana.

2022 — NOW
DEVOLOGY

Co-Founder · CTO

Co-founding a software services venture and guiding delivery of digital products for clients.

2021 — NOW
FUNART GAMES

Founder · Game Developer / Designer

Building games and interactive work with Unity, Unreal Engine, and 3D production tools.

2022 — 2024
SPL · SAUDI POST

Integration Developer → Senior Integration Engineer

Working across API, data, and event-driven integration with WSO2, ASP.NET, and government systems.

Earlier experienceSTC play, SFDA, Gonsole & Ters
2021 — 2022
STC PLAY

Software Engineer

Built Node.js analytics APIs and supported data migration and reporting workflows.

2020 — 2021
SAUDI FOOD & DRUG AUTHORITY

Software Engineering Specialist · Technical Team Lead

Contributed to the Tameni consumer app and related product-information integrations.

2018 — 2021
GONSOLE

Co-Founder · CTO

Led engineering for a gaming marketplace across its app, website, APIs, payments, and analytics.

2019
TERS

Full Stack Developer

Built web features with Angular and Spring Boot.

Full experience on LinkedIn

CAPABILITIES

What I bring
to a team.

Technical depth across integration and product delivery, with the experience to lead people and keep building.

Connect

Architecture and integration across services, data, and organizations.

  • API management & governance
  • IBM API Connect, ACE & DataPower
  • WSO2 · Microservices · Observability

Build

Hands-on product engineering across backend, web, mobile, and desktop.

  • Node.js · TypeScript · ASP.NET
  • React · Next.js · Angular
  • Flutter · Expo · Electron · SQL

Lead & create

Guiding teams, shaping ventures, and exploring interactive experiences.

  • Technical team leadership
  • SaaS product direction
  • Unity · Unreal Engine · 3D workflows

ABOUT

Engineer by practice.
Builder by nature.

I’m based in Riyadh and work where complex systems meet useful products. My day-to-day work is in integration leadership. Alongside it, I keep building software ventures, desktop tools, and games.

EDUCATIONB.S. Computer Science
King Saud University
LANGUAGESArabic & English
INTERESTSStartups · AI · 3D