Mahmoud is a data professional who has helped a lot of organisation across Africa, Asia and Europe to support their data solution/architecture needs and solved many of the challenges around data. With a background in data engineering, architecture and leadership his career expands over several industries including banking, telecommunications, education, e-commerce, traveling and consultancy. Mahmoud has been working in the data field from his first day of his career. He started as an ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) developer in the telecommunication business. After that, he realised the need to know BI (Business intelligence) to have an end-to-end view of how to use data in a correct way. He stepped into big data architecture as well and loved being in the architecture seat. He continued working in the telecom industry for more than 10 years moving between multinational operators across Africa and Asia. After that, Mahmoud decided to move to Europe to explore new businesses, so he chose the financial industry where he worked first as a consultant and later, he worked for a Dutch bank called ABN AMRO as a lead data architect responsible for ABN AMRO data lineage, data management, data access and data sharing capabilities. Now Mahmoud is working for Booking.com as a Senior Data Manager leading teams to adopt state of the are data management best practices and adopt public cloud data architecture as an enabler for the future of booking.

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