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COO & CTO · tentwenty · Dubai

Joshua Moniz

Builds the technology.Runs the operation.

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COO & CTO · tentwenty · Dubai

Joshua Moniz, COO & CTO of tentwenty, Dubai: Builds the technology. Runs the operation.

In ten years I went from back-end developer to COO & CTO of the company I helped scale tenfold.

Team growth since I joined in 2015
10 → 75
Annual turnover today
AED30M
Senior offshore team I built and lead
25
Web and app projects in the portfolio
550+

Selected work

Trusted where the stakes are highest.

Government, aviation, financial regulators, sovereign AI and global enterprise. Most of these relationships run for years.

  • Government

    Prime Minister's Office, Dubai

    AI-enabled platform with a multi-agent voice and chat assistant, human sign-off on every change and full audit logging.

  • Aviation · Partner from the start

    Emirates

    The cabin crew portal for one of the world's largest airline crews, running activities, events and memberships.

  • Financial centre

    Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)

    AI-enabled platforms for a leading international financial centre.

  • Financial centre & regulator

    DIFC & DFSA

    Multi-year digital partnership with Dubai's international financial centre and its regulator.

  • Artificial intelligence

    G42

    Corporate website built to match its rapid global expansion.

  • Healthcare

    AstraZeneca

    HealthGate app for managing long-term health conditions in one place.

  • Culture · Saudi Arabia

    Ithra (Saudi Aramco)

    Website and mobile app with end-to-end cultural event ticketing.

  • Media

    Forbes Middle East

    High-traffic news platform built for scale.

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Career

One company. Every seat from code to C-suite.

  1. 2022 – Now

    COO & CTO

    tentwenty, Dubai · CTO since 2022, COO since 2026

    • Lead the agency alongside its two founders, owning technology strategy and day-to-day operations.
    • Run delivery for a 75-person in-house team across design, engineering, mobile, SEO and DevOps.
    • Work closely with the Prime Minister's Office of Dubai and ADGM on AI platforms with multi-agent systems, human sign-off and full audit logging.
    • Own the technology strategy: multi-stack, microservices-based architectures built for scale, security and cloud resilience.
    • Still hands-on: personally designs the solution architecture, cloud infrastructure and security for flagship platforms.
    • Helped scale tentwenty from a 10-person team to 75 specialists and AED 30M in annual turnover, with multi-year retention of flagship government and enterprise accounts.
  2. 2018 – Now

    Director, Offshore Operations

    tentwenty group, India

    • Set up the group's offshore wing as a founding director, from legal entity to first hires.
    • Lead a 25-strong senior team that delivers as one unit with Dubai.
    • Own offshore delivery end to end: hiring, project delivery, quality and handover to Dubai clients.
  3. 2015 – 2022

    Head of Development & Operations

    tentwenty, Dubai

    • Led the web, back-end and mobile teams and ran agency operations, owning delivery of every client project.
  4. 2014 – 2015

    Back-End Developer

    Creosis, Pune

  5. University

    Freelance Developer

    Pune · technical projects for global multinational clients

    Details on request.

  6. 2014

    Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

    University of Pune

What I bring

Technology and operations, under one roof.

  • Technology strategy

    Architecture decisions that scale from startup builds to government platforms.

  • Hands-on architecture & security

    I still design the system architecture, cloud infrastructure and security for key platforms myself, not just sign them off.

  • Operations at scale

    Delivery, resourcing and quality across a multi-office, multi-discipline team.

  • Offshore build and run

    Set up an offshore entity and have run it continuously since 2018.

  • AI with governance

    AI agents with approval flows, audit trails and test assurance that regulated clients accept.

  • GCC client trust

    Long-term work with government, finance, healthcare and cultural institutions in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

  • Technology focus

    • Enterprise architecture
    • Microservices
    • Multi-stack systems
    • Cloud
    • Infrastructure & security
    • Governed AI & LLMs

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Contact

Let's talk.

Based in Dubai. Open to executive conversations.

  • Emailmoniz.joshua@gmail.com
  • Phone+971 555 389 957