CTO with 14+ years across fintech, digital assets and trading infrastructure. I have helped deliver four regulated platforms across three regulatory environments - spot and derivatives exchanges, forex and CFD venues, OTC, staking, launchpads and liquidity APIs - scale international engineering operations and lead complex platform transformations without compromising security or continuity.
CURRENTLY SERVING AS CTO FOR A MULTI-JURISDICTION FINTECH GROUP IN DUBAI
EXECUTIVE THESIS
In regulated finance, architecture is only the beginning. The CTO must connect security, regulation, platform reliability, customer trust, organizational execution and capital discipline. My work has focused on building that complete operating system.
EXPERTISE
SYS-01 · REGULATED PLATFORMS
Spot and derivatives crypto exchanges, forex and CFD platforms, OTC, staking, launchpads, liquidity APIs, custody, payments and compliance integration designed for regulated environments.
SYS-02 · SECURITY & RESILIENCE
Signing controls, custody integration, platform security, incident readiness and reliability for systems that operate continuously.
SYS-03 · ORGANIZATION
International engineering operations, leadership systems, cloud economics and accountable execution across growing teams.
01 / PLATFORM CREATION
Helped take regulated financial platforms from first architecture to live operations across VARA, FIU-IND and FSC environments.
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Led a major transformation of a live regulated platform without planned customer downtime, coordinating engineering, compliance and operations.
View the full track record →03 / ORGANIZATIONAL SCALE
Built and led international engineering and product operations across Dubai and India, from an early build team to an organization of 150+.
View the full track record →FIELD NOTES FROM BUILDING AND OPERATING
COMMON QUESTIONS
Osama Bari is a Dubai-based Chief Technology Officer with more than 14 years across fintech, digital assets and enterprise technology. He currently serves as CTO for a multi-jurisdiction fintech group in Dubai and speaks at conferences, podcasts and executive forums.
He has helped deliver spot and derivatives crypto exchanges, forex and CFD trading venues, OTC and block-trade workflows, staking and earn products, token launchpads, liquidity aggregation with liquidity-provider APIs, and the custody, payments and compliance integration around them - all for regulated environments.
Four regulated platforms delivered across VARA, FIU-IND and FSC environments; two top-10 security-ranking recognitions from CER.live in 2024; engineering and product operations scaled from an early build team to an international organization of more than 150 people; a live-platform transformation with no planned customer downtime; and a 40% multi-cloud cost reduction.
Exchange and custody security, regulated digital-asset infrastructure, stablecoins and tokenized assets, platform resilience, scaling international engineering organizations, engineering quality in the era of AI-assisted development and the CTO's role when technology is the business - in keynotes, panels, firesides, podcasts and private executive briefings.
Through the speaking page at osamabari.com/speaking: share the event or publication, audience profile, format, proposed date, location and recording terms. He is based in Dubai and available globally for selected engagements.
Through LinkedIn, for relevant professional and industry conversations. His writing and operating perspective are published on the insights page and on LinkedIn, where his verified employment history is also maintained.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, working with international teams and speaking at events globally.
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SPEAKING · MEDIA · INDUSTRY CONVERSATIONS