Tarek A.

- Co-founded Finders and served as CEO. Finders.co is a cross-border eCommerce service - Managed the company since inception: I hired and led a team of 10 employees including Development, Operations, Marketing, Customer Service, Accounting and Business Development - Created the general strategy of the company and reported progress to the Board of Directors weekly - Procured investors and closed a round of 200,000 USD after six months of operations - Managed the development team which architected the full stack of services including Azure web backend and frontend services - Managed the marketing team which created a full marketing strategy including digital marketing and offline marketing - Created the business development strategy and directed the day to day implementation - We started working on Finders in 1/2018 and released it in 6/2018. We generated more than $300k in revenue in the first year of operation

- Manager and Owner of the Customer Signup and Accounts (CSA) Team of the Azure Commercial Experiences organization. I grew from Senior Manager to Principal Manager within two years. - People Manager: Manage a team of 14 developers - Hiring Manager: Grow the team by screening, interviewing, and hiring experiences and entry-level developers. I grew my team from 3 to 14 developers within one year. - Product Owner: Plan and create the long-term product vision for Azure Signup and Accounts by collaborating with the executive leadership of Azure, software development leadership and project managers - Technical Leader: Provide technical guidance for my team and the Azure Commercial Experiences organization - Lead the technical execution of the product vision E2E. Plan feature development sprints and allocate the work to the team