Personal details
Nader K.
Based in: 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
Timezone: Abu Dhabi (UTC+4)
Summary
Experienced Full Stack Engineer with over 10 years of experience in multiple industries. Collaborated with teams from different backgrounds on multiple user facing web apps as well as integrations and backend services. I enjoy working in innovative startups that raise new challenges and engrave good memories.
Work Experience
Technical Lead
Quiqup | Jan 2023 - Present
HTML/CSS
Python
Node.js
Git
PostgreSQL
GitHub
TypeScript
React
Leadership
Planning
JavaScript
CI/CD
NestJS
Elixir/Phoenix
Kafka
- Fulfilling a dual role as a Technical Lead for the Growth Team at Quiqup, in addition to my primary engineering responsibilities
- Lead the team in achieving successful deliveries by ensuring a collaborative work environment, addressing and resolving any blockers
- Conduct stand-up meetings, sprint grooming, and sprint planning sessions to optimize workload distribution, and overlook sprint progress
- Regularly hold bi-weekly one-on-one meetings with team members, providing support to help them set and achieve their career goals
- Play a key role in the recruitment process, particularly for positions within my team, contributing to the composition of a high-performing team
- Facilitate onboarding and mentoring sessions for new team members, ensuring a smooth integration into the team
Software Engineer
Quiqup | Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
HTML/CSS
Python
Git
PostgreSQL
GitHub
Redis
TypeScript
GitLab
React
CI/CD
Storybook
NestJS
Node.js with TypeScript
Elixir/Phoenix
Kafka
- Work in an agile environment with a team spread across multiple countries and different cultures
- Worked intensively on our client facing apps that handles order submission order tracking
- Helped maintain and grow our external UI component libraries built using React and Storybook
- Written two adapters using Python that sync data between third party services and our own services through Kafka
- Worked with the team on planning and implementing an event sourcing system that automates driver’s incentive calculations
- Took ownership of and improved on our internal invoicing system built in Nestjs that publishes invoices to Zoho
- Maintained an integration service with Emirates Post to bulk process their orders
- Written unit tests across backend and frontend apps using libraries like Jest and React Testing Library
- Implemented e2e tests in two of our front facing apps using Cypress.io to help reduce bugs and time spent on QA
- Worked on backend integration tests to quickly identify integration issues
between Kafka, Nestjsapp and the underlying data/event stores
Education
Lebanese American University (LAU)
Bachelor's degree・Computer Science
Oct 2010 - Sep 2013