Chief Technology Officer · Rafeeq
Building products, platforms, and engineering teams that scale.
I'm Brahim Bouine, CTO at Rafeeq, leading 45+ engineers behind a delivery platform handling 16M+ orders a year on AWS and GCP. I write about cloud infrastructure, AI in production, engineering leadership, and building startups.
What I write about
Cloud Infrastructure
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, DevOps, and building resilient platforms at scale.
AI & Engineering
Applied AI, LLMs in production, and modern software engineering practices.
Leadership & Team Building
Growing engineering teams, hiring, culture, and technical leadership.
Startups & Fundraising
Building startups, scaling from zero, fundraising, and the CTO perspective.
Latest articles
All articles →Why the Gulf Will Produce the Next Wave of Logistics Tech Unicorns
Capital, demographics, infrastructure, and regulation are converging in the GCC. A thesis from inside a Qatari delivery platform doing 16M orders a year.
The CTO Role in 2027: Managing Agents, Not Just Engineers
AI agents already review our code and run our migrations. My honest projection of the 2027 engineering org, and which CTO skills appreciate or depreciate.
What 3 A.M. Incidents Taught Me That AWS Certifications Never Did
Twenty production incidents reviewed: why understanding beats fixing, what certifications actually train, and the habits that keep a team calm at 3 a.m.
I Reviewed 400 CVs to Hire 5 Engineers in Qatar. Here's What Stood Out
One quarter of hiring in Doha: the funnel numbers, the signals that predicted great engineers, the red flags that never failed, and what did not matter.
