# Mostafa Wanas

> Mostafa Wanas is the founder and managing director of Wanas Apps, a Zoho Premium Partner serving the UAE, Egypt, and the wider MENA region. He has been writing software since 1998 — 25+ years — and has founded four companies across manufacturing, advertising, and enterprise technology.

- Role: Founder & Managing Director, Wanas Apps (https://www.wanasapps.com)
- Entity id: https://mostafawanas.com/#person
- Languages: Arabic, English

## Recognition
- Zoho Premium Partner (2026)
- Zoho Key Business Contributor, INSPIRE Dubai (2025)
- First Zoho Advanced Partner in Egypt (2023)
- Zoho Skill Champion (2022)

## Expertise
- Zoho implementation
- Deluge scripting
- Zoho Catalyst
- ERP architecture
- Digital transformation
- Egyptian ETA e-invoicing
- Egyptian payroll systems

## Pages
- [About](https://mostafawanas.com/about/): Full biography, career timeline, and the Operations First philosophy
- [Writing](https://mostafawanas.com/blog/): Essays on software, Zoho architecture, and technology in the Arab world
- Arabic version available at https://mostafawanas.com/ar/

## Writing
- [Why I Still Write Code](https://mostafawanas.com/blog/why-i-still-write-code/): I started in 1998 on a borrowed machine in Cairo. Twenty-five years later I still open the editor most days, and it is not nostalgia.
- [Operations First](https://mostafawanas.com/blog/operations-first/): Most software fails because it encodes assumptions the business never made. The fix is to start from operations, not from the product catalogue.
- [Arab Businesses Deserve Enterprise Software](https://mostafawanas.com/blog/arab-businesses-deserve-enterprise-software/): The gap is not budget or talent. It is that most enterprise software is implemented by people who have never run a business in this region.

## Writing elsewhere
- [Zoho MCP — how AI assistants connect to Zoho](https://www.wanasapps.com/blog/zoho-mcp-ai-assistants-connect-to-zoho/)
- [Zoho Catalyst as a serverless development platform](https://www.wanasapps.com/blog/zoho-catalyst-serverless-development-platform/)
- [Choosing the right digital transformation partner](https://www.wanasapps.com/blog/choosing-the-right-digital-transformation-partner/)

## Profiles
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mostafawanas/
- https://github.com/mostafawanas
- https://www.crunchbase.com/person/mostafa-wanas
- https://www.facebook.com/mostafa.wanas
- https://www.instagram.com/mostafawanas85/
- https://www.youtube.com/@mostafawanas
- https://www.behance.net/wanasapps
- https://www.wanasapps.com/about-us/the-founder/
- https://www.wanasapps.com/blog/author/mostafa-wanas/