Bilal Sattar

Technology executive with 15+ years leading engineering organizations, owning technical vision, and driving business outcomes across fintech, real estate, mobility, and healthcare products delivered in 13 countries. Owned the engineering organization, budget, and technology strategy for a flagship GCC SaaS platform (30+ engineers, multiple concurrent projects) while securing and retaining enterprise accounts through high-stakes pre-sales and executive engagement. Led one of the industry's early full Agentic AI transformations of the software development lifecycle — an AI-first operating model that raised productivity 40–50%, cut release cycles 60%, and elevated quality — demonstrating the ability to re-architect how an engineering organization works, not just what it ships.

Engineering Manager at DPL (2024-06 – Present)

Leading end-to-end engineering for the SMART Apartments Platform (iApartments), overseeing product development from planning to delivery while aligning technical execution with business objectives.

• Engineering Transformation: Re-architected how the engineering organization works: led a full Agentic AI transformation of the SDLC — autonomous agents for requirements, code generation, testing, PR review, and CI/CD — moving engineers to a supervisory operating model with 40–50% productivity gains, 60% faster releases, and improved quality.
• Business Alignment: Lead end-to-end engineering for the iApartments SMART apartments platform, aligning technical execution, roadmap, and resourcing with business objectives from planning through delivery.
• Organizational Design: Restructured team composition, roles, and workflows from the ground up, aligning engineering capacity with product priorities and eliminating delivery bottlenecks.
• Executive Communication: Communicated progress, risks, and resource needs to leadership and stakeholders with clarity and transparency; managed dependencies across cross-functional teams.
• Delivery Governance: Defined scope, objectives, and timelines across multiple initiatives; instilled disciplined estimation and optimized Agile (Scrum/Kanban) operating cadence.

Solution Architect | Engineering Manager at Exalogic Consulting (2022-12 – 2024-05)

• Technology Vision & Strategy: Set the technical vision and strategy for REALCUBE (realcube.estate), a flagship GCC real estate SaaS platform, owning the full engineering organization of 30+ engineers across multiple concurrent projects.
• Budget & Resource Ownership: Managed the engineering budget and resource allocation across the organization while maintaining timelines, cost constraints, and quality standards.
• Revenue-Side Leadership: Led high-stakes technical sales discussions, product demonstrations, and pre-sales engagements with enterprise clients — consistently securing and retaining key accounts across the GCC region.
• Platform Architecture: Defined and owned the architecture for a scalable, high-availability SaaS platform with cloud-native delivery and engineering best practices.
• Leadership Development: Developed engineers and leads through mentorship and an ownership culture, building durable engineering leadership capacity.

Mobile Architect at Netsol (2020-12 – 2023-05)

• Architected scalable mobile and web solutions on open, standards-based frameworks for enterprise clients including BMW (BMW Fairmini — Mobile & Web).
• Led end-to-end solutions architecture on the enterprise system roadmap; conducted fit-gap analysis and POCs for new technology adoption.
• Provided technical coaching and mentoring to the engineering team; delivered white-label technology solutions for new mobility use cases.

Lead Developer at REA Group (2019-06 – 2020-12)

• Built hybrid mobile applications for iOS and Android; led mobile architecture across mixed platforms and owned the full development lifecycle.
• Managed App Store / Play Store release processes; facilitated DevOps and CI/CD practices.

Mobile Application Specialist at Wealth-X (2016-06 – 2016-12)

• Managed mobile app development and an external vendor team for iOS/Android digital products.

Senior Software Engineer at DPL (2012-09 – 2016-06)

• Full-stack mobile and software development (iOS/Android); direct client handling for Sweden- and USA-based projects.
• Awarded Best Employee of the Month multiple times.

BSCS (Honors) – Punjab University College of Information and Technology, Lahore (2005 – 2009)