Wajeh Soufan
Founder & Business Development Lead | Germany → Gulf
Wajeh Soufan is the Founder of Optima Growth and leads the company's business-development and market-expansion activities between Germany, international technology markets, and the Gulf region.
He brings more than 10 years of experience in software engineering and technology-driven environments, with a professional background spanning industrial software development, system integration, cloud engineering, artificial intelligence, and modern software architectures. This technical foundation supports Optima Growth's ability to evaluate complex technology offerings and communicate their business relevance to decision-makers.
Wajeh's current professional development includes advanced work in AI Engineering and full-stack software development, covering machine learning, deep learning, generative AI and large language models, transformers, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation, LangChain, TensorFlow, PyTorch, containers, and cloud-oriented architectures.
At Optima Growth, Wajeh combines this technology background with business development to identify market opportunities, assess solution-market fit, build strategic relationships, and connect international technology companies with relevant organizations and partners in Saudi Arabia and the GCC.
Professional Profile
10+ years of software engineering and technology-industry experience.
Background in industrial software, system integration, AI, cloud, and full-stack technologies.
Experience communicating across technical and business stakeholders.
Focus on Germany-to-Gulf and international-to-Gulf technology market expansion.
Business-development emphasis on qualified opportunities, strategic partnerships, and relevant introductions.
Selected Technical Areas
Experience Snapshot
Additional earlier software-engineering and technology experience contributes to a total professional background of more than ten years.
“Technology expansion succeeds when technical value, market relevance, and the right relationships come together. Optima Growth was created to make those connections more focused, credible, and commercially meaningful.”