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FinTech / Buy-Now-Pay-Later·Dubai, UAE·Series-stage fintech

Payment platform with 30% fraud reduction at $10M+ monthly volume

Embedded on a live Buy-Now-Pay-Later platform in the UAE, I shipped the payment gateway, the fraud-scoring layer, and the identity verification flow on real-money production. 99.99% uptime, 30% fraud reduction, 10,000+ daily users.

AI Transformation Lead
Role:Senior Software Engineer · Buy-Now-Pay-Later platform

Outcomes

Payment surface uptime
99.99%
Fraud reduction
30%
Monthly transaction volume
$10M+
Daily active users
10,000+

The problem

The platform runs Buy-Now-Pay-Later checkout for over 10,000 shoppers a day, and every transaction moves real money. It needed a payment gateway with bank-grade uptime, a fraud posture aggressive enough for a regional fraud landscape that was maturing fast, and customer-facing surfaces that met UAE accessibility expectations in Arabic and English.

Constraints

  • 99.99% uptime SLA on the payment surface
  • WCAG 2.1 accessibility, RTL Arabic + LTR English
  • PCI-aligned posture for cardholder data flow
  • Real-money production traffic from day one

What I built

  • 01Led the payment gateway integration end to end, including failure modes and retry logic
  • 02Wired a third-party fraud-scoring SDK into the transaction layer with a feedback loop into the rules surface
  • 03Built Next.js platforms for purchase reporting and for the facial-recognition identity check
  • 04Implemented WCAG 2.1 localization across the customer-facing surfaces
  • 05Operated production payment systems through real-money rollouts and incident response

Stack

Next.jsReact.jsTypeScriptPayment APIsFraud detection SDKTailwind CSSWCAG 2.1

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