Ziad Khouri Email & Phone Number

Stockholm, Se

Quinyx is a global organization with over 900,000 users from 850 customers in 57 countries around the world. Our software studios are in London, Stockholm and Rotterdam. Quinyx offers a best-of-breed AI powered workforce management solution. Our customers include McDonalds, Starbucks, Scandic, Amazon, Flink and Rituals. - Rose through the ranks to Engineering Director through Head of Engineering and Head of DevOps post acquisition- Responsible for ~100 indirect reports and Platform budget ownership and cost optimisation- Creating and directing the Platform Area responsible for Enterprise Engineering, Common Components, Data Strategy, DevOps, and Integrations with a focus on scalability and network economics- Introducing and establishing a balanced matrix organizational structure to the R&D department- Restructuring the engineering department with a focus on ownership, leadership and community- Representing Concrete Engineering through the due diligence and integration phases of Merger & Acquisition- Rebooting the Quinyx Devops function by establishing Agile support and development processes, promoting stakeholder empowerment and championing wider collaboration- Re-architecting the Concrete application to leverage the Quinyx platform

London, Greater London, Gb

Concrete has been a key player in enterprise SaaS for high-street retail for over a decade. Their technology is used by 100s of high-profile clients including Calvin Klein, The North Face, L’Oreal, J Jill, and Harbor Freight. I joined as part of an initiative to reinvigorate the business with a new architectural platform, product and Agile culture. - Rose through the ranks to CTO through Head of Engineering from Senior Software Engineer- C-level technical vision, strategy and execution; reporting to the CEO- Engineering budget ownership and cost optimisation- Recruited and managed a 25+ person team, including software, devops and QA automation engineers- Architected and developed a highly scalable microservice based SaaS platform to replace the legacy enterprise product- Grew the platform from 100 to 100,000 users across 200 customers- Agile transformation, including design and implementation of Agile process across Product and Engineering- Led a number of epics including full-stack and DevOps, with React/Redux, Node.js and RESTful APIs- Created an integrated SDK for React, NodeJS, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, SQS, Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes - Designed and delivered Terraformed IaS, Kubernetes environments, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines- Cloud migration strategy including moving the application stack from dedicated hosting and AWS to Google Cloud

London, Gb

what3words is a multi-award winning geocoding startup. It is used by a number of high-profile clients including the UN, Aramex, Daimler, TomTom and Navmii. what3words has replaced the postal systems in several countries including Nigeria, Mongolia, and the Ivory Coast. It is also used by more than 85% of British emergency services. I was responsible for scaling and modernizing their web services. - Re-architecting legacy services for horizontal scalability and high availability- Serving 10,000-50,000 unique users/day peaking at 10,000,000 uniques- Led development of the authentication, account management and analytics portal and associated APIs - Open source stack including: PHP (Laravel), JavaScript, C++, RDS MySQL, ElasticCache and Cloud Formation

London, Gb

Doubleyoufour created Tripwire, a social networking app for travelers. My mandate was to kickstart a stagnating development process and get both the software and the team back on track with the original business vision.- C-level technical vision, planning and delivery- Grew the user base to ~4000 users with a 5 star App Store rating across 102 reviews - Led development of backend services; a Laravel (Symphony) RESTful API. Technologies included, PHP, MySQL, Elasticsearch, OAuth2, Facebook Graph, Google Geocode and Foursquare.

ETSL develops an intelligent trading system for electronic futures markets, ETSxl. Clients include ICAP, ED&F, LIFFE, Fortis and ABN Amro. I inherited ETSxl three years into its lifespan, and directed the product away from spiraling costs and growing maintenance and development hurdles. - Rose through the ranks to CTO from Senior Software Engineer- C-level technical vision, planning and delivery.- Architected and developed low-latency, desktop trading software using C++ with a hybrid Excel/Win32 GUI- 10000 message/sec burst rate with <1ms overhead- Significantly lowered costs and barriers to entry, by supporting multiple exchange providers including, GL, PatSystems, BrokerTec and TT FIX, thereby introducing supplier competition and portability- Personally provided networking optimisation and conformance consultancy to our customers

London, Gb

Consulting under the umbrella of Electronic Trading Solutions Limited.- Migrated and supported our customers and their IT departments.- Consulting on network performance optimisation and infrastructure consolidation.

Steady State is a small private brokerage, and a partner for user testing and R&D. - Consulting on architecture, procurement, deployment, administration and performance.- Coordination of testing processes.

London, Gb

Consulting under the umbrella of Electronic Trading Solutions Limited.- Supported our customers and their IT departments.- Consulting on performance issues, conformance requirements and compliance testing. - Several terms on location at ICAP implementing infrastructure specific functionality and tools.

E-marketing was an e-business consultancy where I was employed as a Web Developer. I worked on a variety of digital marketing, publishing and commerce projects. I was Technical Lead on the following selection:Clik-Clik- Built Clik-Clik’s proprietary e-commerce system using Javascript, ASP and SQL Server- Technical Lead and Full-Stack Developer- Authored both Requirements Analysis and Technical Specification- Recruited and managed the development team- Developed using the Waterfall model- Introduced eBay-like auction functionality, multilingual dynamic content and multi-currency trading.Altavista- Developed viral marketing campaign based around a multiplayer game using Flash and Java- Full-Stack Developer and Technical Lead, working in tandem with the Creative Director- Developed using Agile methodology. Additional Projects- Premium Petcare: Technical Lead. Online store. Database migration. ASP, SQL Server.- ConnQuest: Technical Lead. CMS and online store. Javascript, Java, XML, SQL Server.- The Financial Times: Technical Lead. Online fulfilment system with advanced user tracking.- MTV: Social networking web application. Flash and Perl.- Clairol: Localisation of US site and additional Perl functionality.

Bsc Honours 2.1, Computer Information Systems

Diploma