Chief Technology Officer — Future Group Language Solutions

KAREEM SALAMA

Twenty-five years turning emerging technology into infrastructure a business can depend on — across enterprise systems, automation, and now AI.

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Profile

Technology only counts when the business can depend on it.

For over 25 years I've designed and delivered the systems companies run on — ERP, HR, TMS, POS, CRM, and project management platforms — as a developer, team lead, development manager, technical director, and now CTO.

Today I lead four departments at Future Group Language Solutions — Production, Products, Digital Transformation, and IT — across global time zones, bringing AI and automation into the core of how a global localization business operates.

My throughline has never changed: automation, integration, and intelligence, applied where they measurably move the business.

Trajectory

Two and a half decades,
shipped and in production.

2024
Chief Technology Officer
Future Group Language Solutions · Cairo · 2024 — Present

Leading strategy and day-to-day operations across Production, Products, Digital Transformation, and IT for a global localization company — driving AI adoption, steering the company's platform portfolio, and aligning infrastructure and security with global scale.

AI StrategyProduct LeadershipOperationsCybersecurity
2021
Technical Director
Future Group Language Solutions · Cairo · 2021 — 2024

Owned the company technology roadmap — evaluating and implementing new platforms, negotiating vendor partnerships, safeguarding security and compliance, and building adoption through training and change management.

Technology RoadmapVendor ManagementSecurity & Compliance
2010
Software Development Manager
Sprinters.ai · Cairo · 2010 — 2020

Led development of an integrated platform spanning project management, translation management, and online quotation — built on advanced automation and NLP a decade before the current AI wave. Owned the full lifecycle from design to deployment and grew the engineering team.

AutomationNLPTMSFull SDLC
2007
Development Team Lead
UnitLabs · Cairo · 2007 — 2009

Led and mentored a team of developers delivering business applications — running agile processes, code reviews, and technical risk management while keeping projects on time and on spec.

Team LeadershipAgileMentoring
2004
Senior Software Developer
UnitLabs · Cairo · 2004 — 2006

Designed and built scalable, high-performance web applications on PHP, MySQL, and MVC architecture — owning database design, performance, and security while mentoring junior developers.

PHP / MySQLMVCDatabase Design
1999
Software Developer
FutureControl · Cairo · 1999 — 2003

First professional role — four formative years building software and the engineering discipline everything since has been built on.

Foundations
Capabilities

Where I operate best.

AI & Automation

Applying machine intelligence and workflow automation where they measurably improve real operations — not where they merely demo well.

Software Architecture

Scalable, secure system design proven across ERP, TMS, CRM, POS, and HR platforms serving complex business requirements.

Digital Transformation

Modernizing processes, platforms, and teams — with the change management that makes transformation actually stick.

Product Strategy

From roadmap to delivery: evolving platforms and client-facing solutions in step with business goals and market direction.

Engineering Leadership

Building, mentoring, and scaling cross-functional teams across global time zones — for nearly two decades.

Security & Compliance

Protecting sensitive data across enterprise systems, and keeping every new implementation inside security and compliance lines.

AI & LLMsNLPWorkflow AutomationSystem IntegrationERPTMSCRMPOSSoftware Project ManagementWeb DevelopmentPHP · MySQLXMLAgile
Foundation
Education

BSc, Computer Science

Modern Academy Maadi · 1994 — 1999

Languages
ArabicNative
EnglishProfessional
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