With the NYT, WSJ, Brookings, Economist and virtually every prognosticator of the punditry classes forecasting dark times for the Kingdom, I'm sensing a crowded trade and beginning to look for contrarian, optimistic predictions...
Good luck. I know of many many Iranian programmers. Never seen a Saudi.
Saudi programmer here. I can count 4 immediate cousins who are programmers, from the top of my head; not to mention a number of my high school classmates, a few friends from college, and others that I've met here and there. The webdev team at my previous job was all Saudis; there were even girls in the team. Absence of evidence is not an evidence of absence.