WUZZUF · BasharSoft · 2016–2018 and 2025–2026
Nine programs and partnerships, from 2016 to 2026, that turned Egypt’s leading job site into a career partner for students, developers, startups, employers and national initiatives: from internships and startup matchmaking to Google’s Mobile Application Launchpad, Egypt’s first software tournament, developer meetups, WUZZUF Unlock ’18 and, on my return, the Startup Support Program.
Close the gap between what Egypt’s graduates and young professionals can do and what employers hire for, and make WUZZUF more than a job board: a career partner that sources, assesses, trains, badges and connects talent with startups, companies and national programs.
As Programs Manager, then Strategic Partnerships & Programs Manager at BasharSoft, the company behind WUZZUF and Forasna, I designed and ran WUZZUF’s programs and partnerships: concept notes and proposals, partner agreements, budgets, operations, campaigns, on-the-day delivery and post-event reports, with Google, MCIT, Udacity, TIEC, RiseUp, A2OJ, AlMakinah, Geek Factory, Egyptian Geeks and Facebook Developer Circles.
01 · Since 2016
Egypt’s first structured internship program on a national job site: a full, free offering that helps companies discover and hire high-potential interns, and gives students and fresh graduates a trusted place to start their careers.
02 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018
The first event of its kind in Egypt: connecting early- and growth-stage startups with high-potential talent and senior professionals, for key roles or as co-founders, inside the region’s leading entrepreneurship summit. I wrote the concept, agreed the partnership with RiseUp, selected startups and talent, and ran it on the day.
RiseUp16, 9 December 2016, Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir: a talk by WUZZUF’s CEO, a founders’ panel on hiring key talent, equity and culture, startup and talent introductions, then facilitated networking. It returned for RiseUp17 with senior professionals, and again at RiseUp18.
03 · 2016–2017 · Google · MCIT · Udacity
Google’s Mobile Application Launchpad, with Egypt’s Ministry of Communications and IT and Udacity, trained Egyptian developers in Android. WUZZUF was its career partner, and I led our side of the partnership.
The program closed on 28 March 2017 at AUC’s Ewart Hall, with Egypt’s Minister of Communications and IT and Google’s MENA Managing Director, where WUZZUF presented the career results and five graduates shared their stories.
04 · November 2016 · March 2017
The first mobile career events in Egypt, by Google and powered by WUZZUF. The second fair, on 18 March 2017 in New Cairo, added buses for graduates from three meeting points, a CV clinic, assessment offers, hiring-needs signs on every booth, and WUZZUF Inbox: a code-based tool that let employers save the profiles of candidates they met straight to their WUZZUF accounts.
05 · 2017 · With A2OJ
Egypt’s first national software tournament, built with A2OJ, the competitive-programming platform used by 14,000+ Egyptian developers. Students and professionals solved algorithm and data-structure problems in the style of top tech-company interviews. WUZZUF was the platinum partner: I shaped the proposal, ran the marketing and landing page, registration through WUZZUF profiles, venues, certificates and badges, and the link to hiring partners.
The campaign teaser
A Matrix-inspired teaser that launched the registration campaign and sent developers to codebattle.wuzzuf.net.
A 24-hour online round, open to anyone in Egypt who can code.
A second 24-hour online round; the top 500 advance.
A timed two-hour round, by region, to qualify for the onsite semi-finals.
Onsite in three cities in October 2017: Cairo at The Greek Campus, Alexandria, and Assiut at Silicon Waha.
The top contestants met in Cairo, with prizes including top women and youngest coders.
06 · 2017
WUZZUF as career partner for two of Cairo’s leading coding bootcamps: promoting each program and its graduates, sourcing and filtering applicants through technical assessments and WUZZUF Badges, and supporting graduates into jobs.
A 12-week, full-time immersive bootcamp: 600 hours from programming concepts to a full-stack web developer with a portfolio. WUZZUF ran the technical assessment that shortlisted applicants for FireUp in March 2017 and for FireUp 2.0 later that year, gave the students career sessions such as a Tech CV Writing workshop, and connected graduates with employers.
A 10-week, part-time iOS bootcamp from February 2017 for candidates with strong computer-science backgrounds, chosen through coding challenges and interviews, with hiring preparation and career networking with tech companies and startups.
07 · 2017 · TIEC · ITIDA · MCIT
Next Technology Leaders is Egypt’s national technology-learning initiative, led by MCIT and delivered by ITIDA’s Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC), building young people’s skills in ICT and electronics through courses on Coursera, Udacity and edX with study-group mentors. I agreed WUZZUF’s role as its career partner:
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08 · 2017
A meetups program connecting developers and young professionals with industry leaders, run with Egypt’s developer communities. The Developer Circles from Facebook Cairo Meetup, supported by Egyptian Geeks and powered by WUZZUF, in August 2017 brought engineers from Facebook and leading Egyptian tech companies to talk about information security, building products that last, React and Redux, software architecture, production engineering and hiring front-end developers, with 630+ registrations. In November 2017, WUZZUF and AlMakinah organized the next Developer Circles Cairo Meetup together, at the American University in Cairo. WUZZUF Meetups also ran its own sessions, such as a Front-End Development Meetup with iHub on becoming a better web engineer, React fundamentals and what front-end development really is.
The 2018 finale · May 2018
The first event of its kind in Egypt: a gathering of top employers, partners and recruitment experts where WUZZUF unveiled its new platform and its goal of one million Egyptians hired by 2020. The program walked guests through the new WUZZUF, talk by talk.
09 · 2025–2026 · Back at WUZZUF as Program Director
A startup enablement and employment acceleration framework, by WUZZUF and powered by BasharSoft, that I designed on my return as Program Director. Its vision: position startups as credible, structured employers that contribute measurably to national employment growth.
Starter for first hires, Grow for scaling teams with visibility and the “Built in Egypt” campaign, and Scale for growth-stage startups, with dedicated campaigns, the founders’ community, podcast and speaking nominations and speed interviewing.
Partners
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