Zaid Lahham Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, England, GB

• I support an org focused on the financial crime and fraud areas.
• I work closely with the hiring team to bring in the best engineers
• Technical vision setting, engineering staffing, and performance management
• Cross-functional partner to Data, Product, and Design leadership counterparts

London, Greater London, GB

Leading the Infrastructure Engineering teams at Smart Pension. We’re mainly responsible for building and supporting the Kubernetes clusters, while providing platform interfaces for the development teams to utilise when deploying their applications. In addition to continuously promoting DevOps practices within the wider Engineering organisationI was awarded.

London, GB

• Led the migration of a CRM project from Mailchimp and Google Sheets to a fully fledged API first solution using Braze and Segment
• Led a Technical SEO refresher project that allowed the platform to reduce add spend and focus on outwards facing content
• Along with a consultant, we migrated the legacy infrastructure from JenkinsX to a full IaC EKS solution running on CircleCI and ArgoCD.
• For a significant period I was responsible for hiring software engineers in the team

Chicago, IL, US

• Healthtech Startup - Delivery focused on the re-platforming of the identity platform and building a bespoke Authorization microservice in Go.Tech/Tools: Golang, Docker, k8s, Ruby, Java, Auth0.
• UK Government - Delivery focused on building an internal PaaS team and offering cloud infrastructure components and SRE tools utilising agile & lean approaches and continuous delivery engineering practices. High.

London, London, GB

• This was a project that was developed In collaboration with UCL as part of my dissertation project for the degree (MSc Computer Science).I built a one-to-one meeting tool for the engineering managers at carwow. The.
• Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Elm
• sidekiq, Redis, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL
• RSpec, Capybara
• HTML5, CSS3, SASS, HAML
• Heroku, terraform

Riyadh, SA

• Worked on the MENA region’s number 1 job site, Akhtaboot; Cavall, an Application Tracking system; ZenHR, an HRMS with Payroll; Testello, applicant testing platform; CareerConnect, a white-labeled career section
• Authored an internal playbook that is being used by the entire engineering team and provided training to the junior developers and new hires
• Built the Akhtaboot mobile application using Ionic.js and the API using Ruby on Rails in addition to releasing it to the AppStore and PlayStore
• Developed ZenHR with full responsibility & ownership for the payroll, employee benefits and leave management modulesTechnologies/languages/methodologies used:
• Ruby, Ruby on Rails
• jQuery, BackboneJS, AngularJS, Ionic, ES2016

• Collaborated with fellow senior members in devising the expansion strategy of the society whose membership quadrupled in a few months
• Designed the syllabus for the frontend and backend courses; using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, the command line, and git
• Built the website and payment portal for warwickcoding.com using Sinatra and Stripe Payment API; which was open sourced along with coursesLanguages/Technologies taught:
• HTML & CSS
• JavaScript.
• Ruby

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor’S Degree, Engineering & Business Studies

A-Levels, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Business Studies, Arabic