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Dawlati - National employment platform (UAE)

The previous vendor spent the budget and never launched. We took over the codebase, and the UAE's national employment platform now runs with UAE Pass and around 20,000 registered job seekers.

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Where we came in

A large vendor had burned through the budget for the national employment platform and nothing was in production. The client had a repository, a long invoice and no credible date. The first job was getting back access to the code, the cloud accounts and the domains, then writing down what could be salvaged and what had to be rebuilt.

What we changed

The database was redesigned from scratch. The old model could not carry the volume of job posts or the searches the product needed. We moved the infrastructure to AWS for separate environments and repeatable deployments. On top of that we built hybrid search, which mixes keyword and semantic retrieval, and machine-learning matching between candidates and jobs.

The part that cannot fail

This is a public service, so the candidate's identity had to be the national one. We integrated UAE Pass, with its verification flow and its response times, and left it running in production.

Where it stands

The platform is live, which is exactly where the previous vendor never got. It is around 20,000 registered job seekers, maintained by a four-person team instead of the original vendor's structure.

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