Hamza Whitmore Email & Phone Number

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

At Foodics I led the engineering teams for backend, web and mobile development and QA, developing online ordering ecommerce platform Foodics Online.By designing and implementing key infrastructure changes we accommodated 500% sales transactions growth over 2 years and eliminated single points of failure and downtime.I worked closely with cross-functional teams to develop the product and support clients, and evangelized my product area throughout the wider organization.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Solo is a leading provider of end-to-end digital ordering solutions for Quick Service Restaurants (QSR), coffee shops and bakeries. Solo powers marketing, online ordering and delivery tracking for global and local F&B brands in the GCC and beyond.As CTO I was responsible for product development, technical and infrastructure architecture and leading our amazing engineering team to build the best platform we can for our clients and their customers.

Riyadh

Designed and lead key customer-facing web initiatives such as online vanity number auctions which brought in millions in revenue while eliminating manual processes which were holding back sales efforts.

• Designed and implemented new RESTful API as a Jersey ESB with JSON and XSLT / XPath• Demonstrated how to use IBM DataPower XI52 appliance as a RESTful ESB with JSON• Designed and implemented industry leading 2 factor authentication to secure external access• Enabled Multi-channel access - including mobile apps, portal, external vendors• Designed and implemented a multi-lingual, multi-channel content management system• Developed over 100 atomic & composite services to expose STC functionality within public and private APIs• Implemented cacheing, throttling and downstream system management

• Responsible for delivery of eBusiness services within B2C STC Online portal• Managed a team of 12+ software developers to improve productivity• Mentoring; Project Management; Code Reviewing; Performance assessments• Introduced new tools and technologies to improve User Experience and Developer Productivity• Introduced Agile development methodology and daily Scrums to improve productivity• Set development standards and code review policies

United Kingdom

• Architecture, Design and Development of core internal software (IVR platform, Speech Recognition integration and SMS gateway)• Strategic business planning, finance and vendor management• Key Account Sales and Account Management• Copywriting for corporate website and other marketing material

London

• Design and development of interactive voice response (IVR) services for blue chip clients such as Whitbread and Argos• Design and development of in-house VNO B2B and B2C billing platform• Nuance Speech Recognition development• Envox IVR development

Richmond Upon Thames

• Designed and Developed GSM rental billing platforms for Vodafone, Dolphin and Orange

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng) Hons, Computer Software Engineering

Btec, Computer Science, Distinction