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Ali Kwika

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Chief Technology Officer at Start Tech
📍 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ali is the Chief Technology Officer at Start Tech with over 15 years of experience scaling technology platforms across the GCC. He specializes in cloud modernization, improving delivery cadence, and aligning engineering with measurable business outcomes. He holds an Executive MBA from Hult International Business School and is a Doctoral Candidate at Clermont School of Business.

Colleagues and partners describe him as skilled, smart, and a strategic thinker with a strong work ethic. He is often praised for his ability to prioritize tasks, his aesthetic sense, and his focus on results and details, with people calling him capable, talented, and thorough.

Unique fact: When starting his career in the UAE, he was invited to a professional-looking job interview that turned out to be a scam asking for money to secure the role.

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Experience
14 Years
Current Role
Chief Technology Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Priorities

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Tech-Business Alignment
He frequently writes about how technology and business drift apart when they don't speak the same language, emphasizing the need for clear ownership to ensure successful delivery.
AI Business Value
He believes AI only creates true business value when it shortens decision-making time or removes manual effort, cautioning against innovation that complicates rather than clarifies.
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Career

Work history

4-2025
Chief Technology Officer
Start Tech
7-2022 - 4-2025
Co-Founder & CTO
The Digital Hotelier
5-2021 - 6-2022
Sr. Technology Transformation & Digital Operation
Ellington Properties Development LLC
11-2020 - 5-2021
Technology Business Development Manager
Driven Properties
7-2018 - 11-2020
Sr. Full Stack Developer (Web, Mobile) & Digital Ads
Ebrahim Khalil Kanoo B.S.C (c)
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Education
2-2024 - 12-2027
Doctoral Candidate
Clermont School of Business
9-2024 - 8-2026
Executive MBA
Hult International Business School
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