Chief Technology Officer · Rafeeq
Brahim Bouine
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.
About Brahim Bouine
Brahim Bouine is a Chief Technology Officer and engineering leader based in Qatar. With over a decade of experience shipping scalable products, Brahim leads the engineering organization at Rafeeq — one of the region's fastest-growing delivery platforms. His work spans cloud infrastructure (AWS & GCP), applied AI, Kubernetes, and building high-performing engineering teams from the ground up.
This is Brahim Bouine's official website, where he shares insights on cloud architecture, AI engineering, technical leadership, and startup building.
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
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The State of Agentic AI in 2026: Capabilities, Limitations, and Production Readiness
Comprehensive analysis of agentic AI in 2026 covering production capabilities, current limitations, and enterprise readiness benchmarks with real deployment data.
Observability for AI Agents: Tracing Multi-Step Reasoning Chains in Production
How to implement production observability for AI agents including distributed tracing, reasoning chain analysis, and debugging multi-step failures.
Measuring and Reducing AI Workload Carbon Emissions: A Practical Engineering Guide
Building a carbon-aware scheduling system for ML training and inference workloads that reduced our AI infrastructure emissions by 42% while maintaining SLA commitments.
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.
