I built my technical chops leading Fortune 500 enterprise tech projects.
Now, I bring those skills to close digital divides across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

My product, program, and policy leadership
— grounded in deep technical understanding —
builds safe and equitable digital futures.

Impact

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Global portfolios
Connectivity Digital Public Infrastructure Climate Tech Enterprise Technology
  1. 1
    $6.5M

    Size of digital connectivity portfolio under management, for expanding broadband access and secure digital infrastructure.

    Connectivity · Global · USAID

  2. 2
    5,000+

    Engineers trained in emerging broadband technologies - nearly half of them women - under a workforce development initiative.

    Connectivity · Philippines · USAID

  3. 3
    6,500+

    Rural patients covered by pilot of private 5G and OpenRAN connectivity telehealth solutions.

    Connectivity · Brazil · USAID

  4. 4
    25%

    Increase in task success rate of digital ID-enabled public services, after user research and design recommendations.

    Digital Public Infrastructure · Rwanda, Côte d'Ivoire, and South Africa · Tony Blair Institute

  5. 5

    Built critical decision-making tools, including trade-off matrices and dynamic decision trees, to assist government users in generating tailored climate tech roadmaps and inform Sierra Leone's national climate strategy. Also, redesigned early warning data pipelines to power locally relevant AI/ML ("small AI") for disaster-prone, low-connectivity areas.

    Climate Tech · Sierra Leone · Tony Blair Institute

  6. 6
    $8M

    Additional new investments, based on an evaluation of digital inclusion gaps across 25 emerging markets.

    Digital Public Infrastructure · Global · IFC

  7. 7
    160%

    Growth in digital payment accounts, through open APIs and inclusive, commercially-led partnerships with fintech providers.

    Digital Public Infrastructure · Pakistan · Karandaaz

  8. 8
    $3M+

    Savings delivered as part of automation of 20+ HR business processes for U.S.-based financial services client with 22,000+ employees.

    Enterprise Technology · United States · Aon Hewitt

Experience

2025–now

Fenix Digital

Partner and Connectivity & Digital Access Lead

Co-founded a digital transformation consultancy with former USAID colleagues, and leads its connectivity and digital access practice.

2023–25

U.S. Agency for International Development

Digital Connectivity Lead

Led a $6.5M digital connectivity portfolio advancing international broadband access and secure digital infrastructure technologies globally.

2021–23

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Tech Policy Lead

Led research, advisory, and product strategy initiatives focused on foundational digital public infrastructure, digital identity use cases, and connectivity.

2017–20

International Finance Corporation

Digital Policy and Portfolio Researcher

Developed investment and advisory recommendations to encourage private-sector participation in expanding inclusive digital financial services.

2015–16

Karandaaz Pakistan

Senior Associate

Scaled a $16M fintech research and advisory portfolio backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK Government.

2014–15

World Bank Group (CGAP)

Digital Inclusion Consultant

Spearheaded the strategic incubation, national policy design, and structural rollout of a standalone digital inclusion vehicle.

2000–11

Aon Hewitt

Systems Analyst → Tech Lead

Led HRIS implementation, process automation, systems integration, QA coordination, and client-facing technology delivery for large commercial clients.

Learning by doing

In a fast-moving AI and tech landscape, staying effective demands hands-on experimentation. These self-directed projects reflect how I continuously build, test, and adapt outside of formal client engagements.

AI prototypes

Where does AI save time, and where does it still need a person?

TrAIvel Concierge, a group-travel planner that grounds its suggestions in real data and was tested with automated and human evaluation. And an n8n workflow that turns unstructured emails into structured records, with human review built in.

AI-assisted development

Can an AI coding agent rebuild a website safely?

This site, redesigned with Claude Code: brand brief, clean-up, and design, with security rules set before any code changed.

Boxplot from Data Driven Pakistan: share of women in unpaid employment by province
Data for policy Work in progress

What does public data show that headlines miss?

Data Driven Pakistan, a four-part series built on public data, and an analysis of funding under BEAD, the US federal broadband program.

Credentials

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Contact

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