Abu Dhabi · Open to Germany / EU relocation
Hassan Ismail
IoT / Edge Solutions Architect
Designing embedded-to-cloud IoT systems from first principles — hardware through platform.
Selected Work
Smart City · 2022–Present
Safe City Integrated Platform
Unified operational platform for UAE federal public safety — connecting 10,000+ government IoT devices across civil defence, police, and traffic enforcement with a single real-time data backbone.
10,000+ Connected government devices
300,000+ AI-assisted assessments processed
25% Efficiency gain in driver licensing
Smart City 02 / 2022–Present
Distributed Edge AI for Driver Behaviour Assessment at Scale
Running reliable AI and ANPR inference across distributed embedded edge units in moving vehicles, then aggregating results into a unified government platform with no tolerance for lost assessments.
IoT / Edge Solutions Architect & Project Lead
Edge AI ANPR Kafka MQTT
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Fleet & Mobility 03 / 2022–Present
Event-Driven Telemetry Architecture for 10,000+ Heterogeneous Government IoT Devices
Designing one backend architecture to normalize, route, and authorize telemetry from vehicles, impound devices, smart parking systems, and inspection units across federal operations.
IoT / Edge Solutions Architect & Project Lead
NestJS Kafka MQTT Angular
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Agricultural IoT 04 / 2019–2022
Off-Grid Precision Agriculture — Sensor Hardware & SaaS Platform
Designing solar-powered off-grid sensor nodes for remote agricultural monitoring and the full multi-tenant SaaS platform that aggregated their data — from ultra-low-power embedded firmware to commercial client dashboards in production.
IoT Hardware & Systems Architect
STM32 ESP32 LoRa C++
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Built for field conditions, not slide decks.
Reliable operation under real constraints: connectivity loss, power limits, mixed device fleets, and operator accountability.
- Offline-first reliability
- Protocol choices matched to topology
- Auditability designed into the system
"Six years building systems where hardware constraints and platform reliability must be solved together."
From firmware to federal-scale deployment — evidence in the case studies.
Core Technical Stack
Depth across the edge-to-cloud boundary.
Firmware, transport, backend, and operations shaped as one system.
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Embedded & RF
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Backend & Data
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Edge & DevOps
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Frontend & AI
Relocation & Availability
Available for architecture and applied R&D roles in EU.
Syrian national based in Abu Dhabi, open to Germany relocation · EU Blue Card eligible upon qualifying offer.
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