Yahya is the Director of the National Digital Certification Centre (NDCC) in Information Technology Authority (ITA), Sultanate of Oman. He has 13 years of experience in the IT field specifically in Cyber Security and Digital Transformation. 

Yahya participated in setting up the Oman National PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) in 2012. He is now responsible to support the government and private entities to integrate their electronic systems to the National Digital Identity and electronic signature systems in order to provide secure and easy e-services. 
Yahya is now the Project Manager for the new Oman National PKI Project which is expected to go live in 2020 and has the trending technology of secure authentication and remote signing. 

Yahya had the honour to receive the ITU prize for Oman National PKI in 2016 in Switzerland. Yahya provided several speeches in different conferences and forums in Oman. He also provided a speech about Oman National PKI and Digital ID in Poland in 2016. He was a speaker in ITU GSR’18 in Switzerland and a speaker in ITU Telecom World 2018 in South Africa.