What changed for the business in projects Mo Zaatar has led.
Turned a two-page idea into a licensed payments business in two countries: 15,000 downloads, 4.8 stars on both app stores, tens of millions processed, 70 destinations customers can send money to, and a A$3.75M seed round. AI tools roughly tripled the team's output with no extra hires.
Role: Co-founder, CTO and board director · 2022 to present
Licensed money transfer and cards, Australia and Canada
An AI assistant built for the firm takes new clients through onboarding and invoicing, and dashboards bring the firm's numbers from several systems into one place.
Role: Fractional CTO through raffina · Current
Confidential client
Timesheets move between three systems (payroll, assets and accounting) on their own, so nobody re-types them, and managers can see how their people's time is used.
Role: Principal Engineer · 2023 to 2025
Workforce systems and reporting
Businesses get their reports from one shared platform that stays cheap to run, keeps each customer's data separate, and gains new reports without new code.
Role: Lead architect and main developer, at MakerX · 2022 to 2023
Reporting software for small and mid-sized businesses
Other teams can create digital assets on the Algorand blockchain without learning how it works: more than 20,000 assets created across 70,000+ transactions.
Role: Lead solutions architect, at MakerX · 2022 to 2023
Blockchain platform
Events such as earthquakes and solar flares are recorded as verified digital collectibles the moment they happen, supporting disaster relief. The first collection sold out.
Role: Platform architect, at MakerX · 2022
Funded by the Algorand Foundation
Set the future design of the member website and mobile app for one of Australia's largest private health insurers.
Role: Solution architect · 2021 to 2022
Private health insurance
Helped a global ticketing company move from one-off custom projects to products it builds once and sells many times, coaching the leads of three teams.
Role: Principal engineer, the first Vix appointed · 2020 to 2021
Public transport ticketing
Mine leadership got one live view of what is happening across the operation, so decisions are made on current information.
Role: Team lead, at Telstra Purple · 2020
Iron ore mine, Pilbara
Customers can pay off credit card purchases in instalments from the app, a first for an Australian mobile banking app. One of four features taken live, after unblocking a core bank system stuck for over a year.
Role: Lead of the credit card mobile team, at Telstra Purple (Readify) · 2016 to 2017
Banking
Designed and built a cloud setup on Microsoft Azure that is copied across Australian locations, so it keeps running if one fails, and cut the cloud bill by 25%.
Role: Solution architect and developer, at Readify · 2016
Reinsurance
Moved older banking software onto a modern web platform and joined three banking products onto one shared back end, leading teams of 5 to 10 developers, for banks in five countries across the Middle East and Asia.
Role: Developer, then team lead, then technical architect · 2007 to 2015
Banking software, part of Kuwait Finance House, the world's second-largest Islamic bank by assets
Some engagements are confidential; references are available under NDA.