Professional Expertise

VP of Engineering of Customer at FTSE 250

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Start Date: 
Mon, 2022-05-09
Location: 
Utility Warehouse, United Kingdom
Programming/modeling techniques: 
Golang, React.js, React Native, Kafka, MongoDB, Grafana, PostgreSQL, Terraform, Kubernetes, Github, event driven architecture
Status: 
VP of Engineering

Utility Warehouse – FTSE 250, multiservice utility provider, 700k+ customers

 

- Scaled the department to 150+ including Heads of Engineering, engineering managers & staff engineers across 6 countries

- Improved the core product teams health looking after the energy, insurance, telecom and the finance industry

- Driven the tech strategy to enable the evolution of the architecture using domain driven design and product input 

- Expanded the org towards stream aligned autonomous teams responsible of thousands of microservices

 

Engineering hyper scale at IoT startup

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Start Date: 
Tue, 2020-08-04
End Date: 
Fri, 2022-04-01
Location: 
Infogrid, United Kingdom
Programming/modeling techniques: 
Python, React, REST API, Django, Docker, Terraform, Celery, Redis, AWS, Gitlab, Data Lake, Microservice architecture, Material UI
Status: 
Head of Engineering

Infogrid is an IoT startup, its mission is to address the world’s climate crisis by enabling businesses to reduce the environmental and social cost of their buildings.

 

- Scaled the development team 6 folds (6 to 36 developers) in 2 months to meet hyper scale demands

- Established 5 teams, coached team leads, launched QA activity and setup a scalable organization structure

- Coached the organization on agile practices, kicked off community of practices and increased collaboration of distributed teams

 

Lead an E-Commerce startup

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Start Date: 
Mon, 2019-08-19
End Date: 
Fri, 2020-07-31
Location: 
Portefini, United Kingdom
Programming/modeling techniques: 
Python, React, REST API, Django, nginx, Docker, Gunicorn, Celery, Redis, AWS, Stripe, Sentry, CircleCI, TensorFlow, scikit-learn
Status: 
CTO

Portefini is a US-based startup, its mission is to make shopping for men effortless.

Startup technical coach

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Start Date: 
Fri, 2019-02-01
End Date: 
Thu, 2019-08-08
Location: 
Smart ESA, Lebanon
Programming/modeling techniques: 
Best practices on full stack development, software architecture considerations, lean startup approach, agile methodology application
Status: 
Technical Coach

Smart ESA, the accelerator and incubator for the next startups, at the cross-roads of academic excellence and the entrepreneurial journey.

 

Startup technical coach

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Start Date: 
Tue, 2019-01-01
Location: 
Flat6Labs, Lebanon
Programming/modeling techniques: 
Software Architecture, SOA, Resource-based REST APIs, Authorization and Authentications schemes
Status: 
Technical Coach

Educated a startup about API design, software architecture, integration standards and security best practices in FinTech
Tech: Resource-based REST APIs, service-oriented architecture, authorization schemes

Flat6Labs Beirut is a startup seed program and early stage fund designed to empower entrepreneurs to develop and scale viable companies in a short period of time.