Kenan Hneide
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Web Developer
Kenan is a seasoned software engineer with 10+ years of experience building large-scale applications spanning massive multinational corporations like Amazon to early-stage startups. He has deep experience in back-end, front-end, and mobile development at scale. Used to work within remote environments over the last three years, Kenan is looking to contribute to new, exciting, and challenging products creation on early-stage startups.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Git, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is Amazon's mobile shopping app that serves hundreds of millions of satisfied customers worldwide.
Work Experience
Tech Lead
AdaptiLab Inc
- Developed a Visual Studio Code extension to help software developers be more productive.
- Managed and ran Scrum on a four-person engineering team.
- Created and managed all project infrastructure, including AWS resources and deployment pipelines, resulting in deploying a new version of the product twice a week to over 2,000 customers.
Co-founder and Head Engineer
Rentline Inc
- Created the company from the idea to the pre-seed funding.
- Developed the proof of concept product and investor pitch deck.
- Recruited co-founders and secured over USD $200,000 in pre-seed funding.
Software Development Engineer
Amazon.com
- Developed a mobile application platform that powered three major mobile applications for Amazon, including the Amazon mobile shopping app, the Amazon Prime Now, and the Amazon seller application.
- Built proof-of-concept products for an internal R&D lab for future Amazon products, including physical products.
- Wrote a compression library that saved +70% of the bytes sent over the wire for Amazon mobile applications.
Senior Software Engineer
NBCUniversal
- Developed and owned a proprietary content management system that managed content for multiple online properties, including eonline.com.
- Built and managed a set of web services powering multiple online properties, including eonline.com.
- Created a video encoding and approval system to be used by the Universal Studios backlot.
Experience
Grok: A Mindmap for Development
I was the tech lead at a four-person startup, and I led the development of this Visual Studio Code extension with 2,000+ downloads.
Skills
Languages
JavaScript, Java, C, C++, Swift, TypeScript
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Visual Studio Code (VS Code), MacOS, Android, iOS
Frameworks
Spring
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, Twilio API
Tools
Git
Storage
MongoDB, Relational Databases
Other
Integrated Circuits, Web Services
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine - Irvine, CA, USA
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