Portrait of Selim Salman

Exploring what technology makes possible since 1990.

From my first IBM 386 to building how software gets built.

Selim Salman. Technology strategist, enterprise architect, and venture builder. Turning ideas into working systems, from early software development to AI-native engineering.

Working in technology professionally since 2005.

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1984–2001Sinai, and a first computer
The Sinai Peninsula seen from Space Shuttle Columbia, March 2002
  1. 1984Born in 1984. Childhood, primary school and high school in Sinai.
  2. 1990A first IBM 386, and the start of exploring what technology can do.
  3. 1999–2001Al-Arish Secondary School, North Sinai: science and maths.
2002–2007Computer & Systems Engineering, Mansoura University
A wireline tool coming out of a well, 2006
  1. 2002Leaves Sinai for Mansoura University.
  2. 2005First professional work: wireline trainee at Schlumberger, A grade, alongside the degree.
  3. 2006Internships at ACT, Circuit Home Automation and Al-Arish Steam Power Plant.
  4. 2007BSc / BEng, Computer & Systems Engineering.
2008–2010MSc at Nottingham, research and an IEEE paper
University of Nottingham, Trent Building
  1. 2008Boeing Business Enrichment Program for Young Engineers, AMIDEAST. MSc Information Technology begins at the University of Nottingham.
  2. 2009MSc completed. Systems engineer at ITLogia on Vodafone Egypt’s network management.
  3. 2010UCML published at IEEE NGMAST in Amman. IT section head at Integrated Oil Industries.
2011–2018Engineering, research and enterprise architecture
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni
  1. 2011ITWorx and Vodafone International Services, then HP Enterprise in Egypt.
  2. 2012Technical lead on the Vodafone UK eShop at HP.
  3. 2013Researcher in mobile computing at TU Berlin.
  4. 2014HCI researcher and sole Android developer at iMinds. First place at Hack4Good.
  5. 2015Android engineer at Mobile Event Guide. Second place at GDG DevFest Berlin.
  6. 2016Android engineer at Ubilabs.
  7. 2017grandcentrix, then Accenture DACH: associate manager, Digital Industry X.0.
  8. 2018Accenture Certified Technology Architect, leading Android capacity in the Mobile App Studio.
2019–2022Vision Nomads, founding and enterprise innovation
  1. 2019Founds Vision Nomads.
  2. 2020Sells Vision Nomads. Founds BookTermin.de.
  3. 2021Joins Deloitte Consulting: enterprise architect and product owner.
  4. 2022Deloitte: technology strategy and transformation, innovation and ventures.
2023–2025Technology leadership, advisory and venture building
Screenshot of the eleventures.ai website
  1. 2023AI business strategy at Berkeley Haas. Interim CTO at Monamy.
  2. 2024Director of Digital Intelligence at Horizon Connect.
  3. 2025Eleventures: founder and Prokurist.
2026–todayEleventures, SinAI Tech Ventures and Sinawy
Screenshot of the sinaitechventures.com website
  1. 2026SinAI Tech Ventures: founder and advisor. Sinawy delivers 509 work items across 16 repositories in October.

Sinawy: Rethinking how software gets built.

An evolving AI-native software engineering operating model combining autonomous agents, structured workflows, quality gates, and human oversight.

1–30 October 2026

509
work items delivered
16
repositories
18 min
median machine time per item

Observed operational results from Sinawy’s own ledger for 1–30 October 2026, not a controlled benchmark. Delivered means deployed and witnessed, not yet accepted by a person. Machine time includes failed attempts.

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Sinawy is an operating model under development, not a product. Work starts as a card on a board. Each stage has to return a checked result before the next one runs. The stage that verifies never wrote the code, and the deployed commit is witnessed before anyone is told it shipped.

118
items sent back by an independent stage before delivery. The gates catching faults.
39
items returned for more work after delivery. A floor, because human checks can lag.

Where it stops. Browser checks run on a local build; after the deploy, Sinawy checks commit, health and pipeline. Verification is only as good as the criteria a person wrote.

One item, as the ledger recorded it
StageModelSeconds
triagehaiku263
specopus530
planopus87
implementgpt-5.6-sol481
reviewsonnet19
verifyopus452
closeouthaiku24
delivery—4
writeback—0
Item 1643 on Sinawy’s own repository, 30 October 2026. Seconds of machine time per stage. One execution, not a typical one. Models are chosen per stage and task; across this period the ledger mainly records Opus, Sonnet, Haiku and GPT-5.6 Sol.

Three things I’m building

Screenshot of the eleventures.ai website

Eleventures

Founder & Prokurist, since 2025

AI-first venture building and technology entrepreneurship in Germany.

Screenshot of the sinaitechventures.com website

SinAI Tech Ventures

Founder / Advisor, since 2026

Building and supporting technology ventures across emerging markets.

One Sinawy work item as nine labelled stages, each bar as long as its machine time

Sinawy

Creator, since 2026

Developing an AI-native software engineering operating model for human-agent collaboration, quality, and delivery.

Selected publications

Android Development Phone 1, the developer phone of the time
Android Development Phone 1, the developer phone of the time

UCML: Ubiquitous Control Modeling Language for Android Platform

Peer-reviewed conference paper, IEEE.

Full citation and links

NGMAST 2010, Amman, pp. 112–116.

Cite this paper
A. M. S. Salman and A. Pourabdollah, “UCML: Ubiquitous Control Modeling Language for Android Platform,” in Proc. 2010 Fourth Int. Conf. on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST), Amman, Jul. 2010, pp. 112–116, doi: 10.1109/NGMAST.2010.32.

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On stage

Droidcon, DevFest, Code.Talks

I talk about AI-native engineering, architecture and what technology does to the people around it.

Where I can contribute

Write to me

For strategic advisory, technology partnerships, venture collaboration and speaking.

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