Faisal Altoukhy

Faisal AlToukhy has 25+ years of effective and highly innovative leadership experience. Faisal is skilled at building teams and products from the ground up, as well as transforming existing systems into modern, optimized, and easily maintainable systems. Faisal has provided solutions for extremely complex problems throughout their career.

Currently, Faisal works at Yaskawa Motoman as an Associate Chief Software Architect, starting in January 2022.

Prior to that, they worked at Essentium, Inc. as the Sr. Director of Software Development from March 2020 to October 2021. In this role, they were responsible for building a software ecosystem from scratch and leading a team of 15 engineers. Faisal conducted daily Agile processes, design and code reviews, implementation, mentoring, and QA planning.

Before Essentium, Inc., Faisal was the Founder and CEO of Sarasoft Consulting from November 2016 to March 2020. During this time, they consulted for various clients, including Loan Depot and Jabil Automation, developing loan processing applications and automating wafer processing.

From January 2014 to November 2016, Faisal served as the VP Software Development & Co-founder at ThirdWayv Inc., an IoT startup. Faisal was involved in establishing and recruiting in Cairo, which contributed to the success of the company. Faisal also designed and developed a complete platform for IoT, including communication from IoT to mobile, backend services, and frontend management tools.

At Yaskawa Electric America, Faisal held the position of Principal Software Architect from April 2010 to January 2014. Faisal was responsible for designing and implementing a framework to automate and manage medical labs, delivering mission-critical solutions to major medical labs in the United States.

Faisal's career includes previous roles as a Principal Software Engineer at Wonderware from July 2009 to April 2010 and as a Software Engineering Manager at Dainippon Screen Engineering of America from August 2001 to April 2009. At Dainippon Screen Engineering, they led the development of the company's first line of products software on the Windows platform and managed a team of developers for prepress solutions and printing. Faisal initially joined Dainippon Screen Engineering as a Senior Software Engineer in March 1993.

Faisal AlToukhy obtained their Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Ain Shams University between the years 1982 and 1986. Faisal then pursued their Master's degree in Computer Science from California State University, Fullerton from 2006 to 2008.