Credit platform leveraging ML and massive datasets to model a forward-looking view of borrower financials and monitor the lender’s portfolio.

• Working in Ingestion Squad, on a mission to onboard financial data under a standardized format. My squad is the backbone of the company and works on the most significant architectural projects at this stage of the product cycle.

• Own the delivery of the Ingestion UI, which allows onboarding massive borrower financials. Key features: massive tables, drag & drop interactions, data validation. Currently in production across all client stacks.

• Own the delivery of the Financials UI, which allows viewing ingested financials and on-the-fly calculation of forecasts. Key features: massive tables, currency conversions, live calculations. Currently in production across all client stacks.

• Replicate the company’s public website using modern static web technology (GatsbyJS) in 2 days during the hackathon. Currently in production.

• An active participant in FE guild initiatives, improving the overall quality/modularity of the codebase. Examples: facilitate the move to micro-FE architecture, own IE 11 compatibility efforts, reduce FE bundle size, standardize table components, devise custom lint rules to enforce good practices.

• Work closely with Product, Design, Squad Leadership, and BE to prioritize tasks, estimate efforts, break down complex stories into sensible implementation steps while avoiding getting caught up in unimportant details.

• Occasionally act as a Scrum Master for the team: coordinate daily stand-ups and retrospectives, facilitate unblocking issues.

• Conduct technical interviews to access candidates for technical positions.

• Have a strong emphasis on testing and overall quality of the code base.

• Tech Stack: FE – Typescript/React/GraphQL, BE – Python/Django/Postgres, AWS/Docker/Kubernetes, Kafka, Test – Jest/Cypress.

Analytical & Quantitative

• Co-created a Korean modern banking solution from scratch. Devised market offering, technical features, roadmap, and a high-conversion website. Stakeholders raised $35,000,000 within 30 days of the crowd sale.

• Expanded to a new customer segment after introducing an approach for low-cost, high-quality website development initially designed for market assumption validation. This segment constitutes 6% of sales.

• Established client transparency tools with notifications, dev status overview, and low-touch automated reports resulting in increased customer satisfaction & retention, and decreased reporting times by 70%.

Leadership

• Acquired and negotiated deals with 2 clients in Q2 2019 bringing 60% of quarterly sales. Subsequently, one of these clients (associated with NHS) offered another project that will result in > £200,000 of sales.

• Co-created a new offering of impact-oriented digital transformation solutions.

• Introduced many standards which became best practice and de-facto guidelines for product development.

Project Management

• Within 2 weeks recovered a poorly implemented React Native project by re-working the codebase to resolve a set of architectural and functional issues, resulting in the successful delivery and continued a fruitful relationship with the client.

• Oversaw an entire project lifecycle from initial requirements gathering and feasibility analysis to effort estimate, pricing, sprint planning, resource allocation, code reviews, and commissioning solutions.

• Amassed a database of cross-functional contractors for outsourcing; instituted interviewing routine.

Team & External Communication

• Collaborated closely with the clients during development iterations, reported directly to the CEO.

• Coached the team on Agile, usability and performance standards, tools, and test-first approach gradually improving their skills resulting in fewer bugs, faster turnaround and higher quality overall.

• Translated a complex web-view app into React Native/MongoDB/AWS stack by re-building it from scratch. Features: rendering 100+ large images in a single view, Tesco & Ocado integration, offline text & images, cloud infrastructure setup & migration. The resulting app is 50% faster than its predecessor.

• Delivered a robust React website for Egypt’s leading plexiglass manufacturer which scores 100 in Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO, and PWA in Google Lighthouse audit.

• Implemented 3 production React websites for rootnode with rich CSS/SVG/JS animations and 3D.

Technical

• Agile Certified Practitioner, Continuous Innovation, Design Thinking, Design Sprints, OKRs, KPIs.

• Jira, Trello, Git, Npm, Webpack, ESLint.

• Front-end: React & React Native, Redux, GatsbyJS, Javascript (ES5/6)/HTML5/CSS3, CSS Pre-processors, Styled Components, Bootstrap, CSS/JS/SVG Animations.

• Back-end: Node, Firebase, AWS, MongoDB Cloud, REST API, GraphQL, MySQL.

• Data Structures, Algorithms, OOP, Computational Complexity, Different Languages, Integration.

• Responsive, Best Practices, Cross-Browser, UI/UX Design, Infrastructure Management, SEO readiness.

• Introduced the latest tech stacks for appropriate projects.

• Designed responsive UI components and layouts either myself or as a design lead for most of the projects.

Team & External Communication

• Contribute to initial requirements gathering, story definition, code reviews, releases, and regular clients updates & showcases.

• Take a pro-active approach throughout a project lifecycle by giving professional advice on best practices, potential design flaws, and viability in relation to effort/cost for the clients.