Fashion Cloud is a digital content exchange platform for the fashion industry. We work with fashion brands and retailers enabling the exchange of marketing material, product photos, and product data via our online platform or via direct integration with the retailers' software systems.During my time at Fashion Cloud, I was part of the Data Team. Most of the code I wrote was in TypeScript. In various parts of the system, we used MongoDB and Postgres as our data stores. We also used Elasticsearch as the search engine for the platform.We operated our infrastructure on AWS and used services such as EventBridge, SQS, SNS, S3, RDS, and StepFunctions, just to name a few. We didn't have a dedicated DevOps/Infrastructure team, so each team within the company was responsible for deploying, operating, and maintaining its own infrastructure.Some of my responsibilities and tasks were:• Maintained and developed Fashion Cloud's data-importing infrastructure and tooling• Researched, designed, prototyped, and implemented solutions to resolve scalability, latency, and storage issues• Deployed services on AWS using CloudFormation and AWS CDK• Worked with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch• Debugged, triaged, and fixed issues• Coordinated with other teams that rely on services provided by the Data Team• Performed code reviews• Worked closely with the product team• Advocated for more focus on writing more tests and test first development

After a successful internship, I was hired as a full-time software engineer. I was the first employee to be hired outside of the founding team.As is typical of working at a startup, I had varying responsibilities and had to wear multiple hats to make sure things got done. Some of my responsibilities and tasks were:• Reverse-engineered banking apps and APIs of the top banks and financial institutions in the MENA region• Implemented programmatic access to reverse-engineered banking APIs to get financial data and initiate payments• Designed, implemented, and deployed backend services and APIs written in TypeScript and Go on Microsoft Azure• Monitored, triaged, and fixed API and integration issues• Supported third-party developers during the integration process with the Dapi API • Wrote guides and API documentation so third-party developers can integrate with the Dapi API to get financial data and initiate payments with ease• Presented and demoed technology to potential clients and investors

A one-year internship at the Institute of Applied Information Technology (InIT) at The School of Engineering at Zurich University of Applied Sciences.I mainly worked on cloud technologies and tools, such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenStack, OpenWhisk, and FaaS (serverless), to name a few. Moreover, I worked on implementing software prototypes and APIs in Python and Go.In addition to practical work, I also contributed to the scientific literature in the context of FaaS and Serverless Computing research, by writing a paper on the topic, which can be found in the Publications section below.Some of my responsibilities and tasks were:• Work on internal projects concerned with Kubernetes applications and cloud functions• Active involvement in the organization of the UCC/BDCAT conference in December 2018• Contributing to scientific work and analysis of results• Communicating results and output through technical blog posts and social media• Open source contributions to HelmQA, a tool to test the quality of Helm charts, Kubernetes, and OpenShift apps

• Assisted in performing literature reviews• Performed Data collection and analysis as part of several research projects• Software prototype development for the iOS version of a health-related research project

• Was responsible for the installation, configuration, and hardening of Linux servers • Automated tasks with shell scripts • Helped team with collecting and analysing reports • Monitored servers using Nagios • Reported and resolved issues using JIRA ticketing system • Performed updates on critical Windows Server applications in production environment

• Developed the back-end for an attendance-taking system using PHP and MySQL• Connected multiple fingerprint scanners to a single UI utilising SOAP requests • Made it easier for HR to download and print pretty reports in PDF format