About Me

I’m Abdullah Diab, an Engineering Manager, based in Dubai, UAE, with over 20 years of experience in software engineering and technical leadership. Originally from Damascus, Syria, I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Damascus University and have built and led engineering teams across Syria, Dubai, London, and Amsterdam, and worked in startups, SMEs, and big tech companies.

I’m also an active open-source contributor, best known for Python Arabic Reshaper, a widely used library for rendering Arabic text correctly, along with other projects over the years. I’m fluent in Arabic, English, and Dutch.

This blog is where I occasionally write about software engineering, open source, tech, Islam, and other things I’ve learned along the way.

Happy to have you here reading this.