Abbas joined the charity in 2011 as a trainee IRT volunteer. In 2013 he graduated as International Rescue and since then he has deployed with Serve On to earthquakes, floods and hurricanes including the Nepal quake in 2015, Hurricane Irma in 2017, and the Turkiye Earthquake in 2023.

Professionally, Abbas is a partner of the IT consultancy Agilicist, where he focuses on helping large companies scale their Strategy and Delivery processes.  He's also really good at juggling.