Hossam is the chief Technical Officer of BrightDrive (www.bright-drive.com), Before that he served as the CTO of Brightskies (www.brightskiesinc.com) between 2016 and 2023. He has a total of 19 years of professional experience, most of them in automotive software development. Hossam worked for Valeo (www.valeo.com) between 2006 and 2016 where he was appointed as a functional safety expert since 2012. He started automotive engineering services in Brightskies by beginning of 2016 and initiated product development for electrification (BrightBus) and autonomous driving (BrightDrive) programs by 2019 before he moved to be the CEO and CTO of BrightDrive.
Born in 1981 in Cairo, Hossam got his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Electrical Communications from Cairo University in 2003. He got his MSc. degree in Communications and Information Technology –Software Engineering from Nile University in 2014.
Hossam authored six conference publications and gave two public speeches in international events about software safety. He has been a Technical reviewer for safety critical systems at the US Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) world congress event since 2012. In addition, he is a worldwide trainer for automotive functional safety in Egypt, France, Germany, USA, Ireland, Hungary, and Czech Republic.
His experience in automotive systems development and analysis Software, Systems, and functional Safety engineering for domains like ADAS, Autonomous driving, Body & Chassis, Electric and Hybrid Powertrain and others.
