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Nizar Abubaker

Head of Digital Platforms

About

The person behind the work.

01About

Technologist by training. Translator by necessity.

A few paragraphs in your own voice: where you started, what pulled you from engineering into architecture and leadership, and what still pulls you back to building.

The through-line is translation: between business intent and technical design, between legacy systems and new ones, between teams who use different words for the same thing.

02How I think

A few working principles.

  1. 01

    Boring technology, interesting outcomes.

    Novelty is a budget. Spend it where it changes the result, not where it changes the CV.

  2. 02

    Architecture is a set of decisions you can explain.

    If the reasoning lives only in someone’s head, it is not architecture yet — it is a dependency.

  3. 03

    Integration is where projects really fail.

    Systems rarely fail alone. Draw the seams first, agree the contracts early, and test the joins hardest.

  4. 04

    Ship the smallest true thing.

    A small thing in production teaches more than a large thing in a slide deck.

  5. 05

    Teams are the system.

    Org charts become architecture diagrams eventually. Design both on purpose.

03Off the clock

There is a person behind the architecture diagrams.

The same curiosity, pointed elsewhere.

  • Music

    What you play, listen to or make.

  • Football

    Your team, and how you follow the game.

  • Experiments

    Unusual applications, creative coding and things that probably should not work — but do.

  • Ideas

    A notebook of product ideas that is longer than it should be.

Contact

Got a complicated thing?

A platform to rethink, a team to build, an integration nobody wants to own, or an idea that needs a first version. Tell me about it.