Work Experience

■  Senior Software Engineer
- London
2023 - Current
  • Teya: A fintech company offering SMBs payment solutions.
  • Helped in migrating the payment gateway from Python to Java, resulting in a 10x reduction in cloud costs.
  • Led the migration to cloud HSM & a different host processing to increase our availability to 99.96%.
  • Stack: Java, Spring, PostgreSQL, Kafka, K8s, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry and ISO 8583 protocol.
■  Senior Software Engineer
- London
2022 - 2023
  • Re-engineered incident escalation with event-driven architecture, enhancing resilience and fault tolerance.
  • Stack: AWS Lambda, AWS Kinesis, Javascript, Prometheus, and ClickHouse.
■  Senior Software Engineer
- Amsterdam
2016 - 2022
  • AIMMS: A specialized programming language for developing mathematical optimization applications.
  • Spearheaded the performance roadmap of our web platform, resulting in a 7x reduction in page load times.
  • Developed a CI/CD pipeline catering to three teams, leading to a 5x reduction in execution time.
■  Senior Software Engineer
- Amsterdam
2014 - 2016
  • Engineered improvements in Maps XHR requests response times, achieving a 50% increase in speed.
  • Enabled Mac users to book Booking.com hotels directly from Apple Maps for the first time.
■  Senior Software Engineer
- Dubai
2012 - 2014
  • One.com: A leading web hosting company for millions of individuals in the Nordic region.
  • Led in-house photo processing, video transcoding, and job queuing system serving over 200K domains.
■  Software Engineer
- Amman & Bangalore
2009 - 2012
  • Played a critical role in the Y! Mail team to launch the product for over 70 million Arabic users.
  • Launched Y! News Mobile for the Middle East market, serving 17 countries.

Education

■  Electrical Engineering
2004 - 2009
  • Achieved First Class Honors for three consecutive years due to outstanding academic performance.

Languages

Typescript

Intermediate

Java

Intermediate

Shell

Intermediate

Python

Basic

Rust

Rudimentary

Go

Rudimentary

Zig

Rudimentary