
Khaled Osman
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Khaled is a software engineer specializing in technical leadership, architecture, mentorship, and everything concerning JavaScript development. He's been working in the industry for 8+ years with multiple startups as their first tech hire and has led teams and built many applications from scratch during that period. Khaled's main areas of expertise and preferences are software architecture, web performance, serverless, full-stack development, consulting, and mentorship.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
React, Vue, Stencil.js, Node.js, NestJS, GraphQL, Docker, MongoDB, Serverless, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The most amazing...
...thing I take pride in is building software architecture and systems from scratch, teaching software engineering and automating things.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Shopify
- Worked and shipped three projects and managed to work cross-stack on both the back end and front end despite being hired as a back-end developer in the Shopify engineering culture that is strict discipline focused.
- Developed the new self-serve returns feature allowing customers to initiate returns to merchants.
- Established the latest structured return policies project allowing merchants to create and configure their return policy, determining which items are eligible for return and which aren't.
- Worked on public APIs for returns allowing 3P apps and 3P developers to call Shopify APIs to create returns and dispositions.
Lead Engineer
Carbmee
- Screened, interviewed, and hired new team members to grow the team.
- Migrated the company's microservices and different apps into a mono repository structure.
- Set up all engineering-related processes for product and tech, and ensured the teams' needs were met, and feedback was heard.
- Maintained code quality and learning environment through code reviews.
- Turned product and design ideas into architecture diagrams and technical tickets for developers to understand and work on.
- Set up versioning and release strategy throughout the product lifecycle.
- Improved overall app performance through best practices and converted the application into an offline-first progressive web app that works offline and on slow internet connections.
Senior Full-stack Engineer
Vantik
- Maintained and added new features to their old app as the first hire on the team.
- Implemented their new hybrid web and mobile app from scratch using Vue 3, Capacitor, and Ionic as a PWA.
- Defined and implemented automated releases and versioning strategy along with their CI/CD pipelines.
- Implemented biometric authentication for the app along with data visualisations that show the user's account balance over time.
Full-stack Engineer
Colorfy
- Collaborated with the head of engineering to build customer projects as their first hire on the back-end team.
- Joined weekly client meetings to gather requirements from clients and update them on the ongoing development progress.
- Took over entire client projects from architecture, planning, and technology decisions all the way through implementation and delivery.
- Wrote technical specifications for planned new features and managed external back-end development team for one of the projects to ensure quality and feature delivery.
- Implemented and delivered eight different IoT client projects both for other startups as well as big companies.
Senior Software Engineer
Itonics
- Worked directly with the CTO to build their new software as their first hire in the Berlin dev team.
- Built the new version of the product front end from scratch.
- Made and implemented multiple customizable and configurable customer projects based on the main core product.
- Ran internal workshops and presentations to showcase new technologies and teach new technologies to the development team.
- Built multiple real-time, interactive, dynamic, and configurable visualizations using D3.js.
- Implemented CLI to build, deploy, and undeploy any client projects and set up automated deployment, testing, and internal continuous integration project as a web app for easy one-click deployments as well as version and status monitoring.
- Refactored and migrated the codebase into newer technologies and got rid of technical debt to ensure maintainability.
- Implemented microservices and back-end APIs to recommend data to the users.
Experience
Vantik Card
I was mainly responsible for web and mobile app development as the only person on the front-end team.
Carbon Emission Tracking for Businesses
Building Management
I built both the back end and the front end for the app.
Ice Cream Vendors
I served as a full-stack engineer building both the back end and the web app.
Sports Game Tracking
The app also had an "excitometer" that ranked games by how exciting each game was and sent notifications about ongoing game scores to users in real time, both as app notifications and via SMS, depending on user preferences.
I served as a back-end engineer setting up the infrastructure and architecture to gather all the related information from different APIs as well as another back-end API that publishes real-time data to the mobile app.
Portable Mobile Wifi Hotspot
Smart Dishwasher Cleaning
I served as a back-end engineer creating the APIs both for the firmware needing to send and store device-related events as well as the mobile application where the user needs to see all related information and an activity stream facilitating the communication between both the mobile app and the hardware device.
Coffee Ordering App
I served as a full-stack engineer building both the back-end API and the front-end app.
Innovation Management CMS Software
Skills
Languages
GraphQL, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, Java, CSS, Ruby
Frameworks
Ionic, Serverless Framework, Angular, Express.js, Vanilla JS, NestJS, Redux, AngularJS, YARN, Next.js, Ruby on Rails 4
Libraries/APIs
React, Vue, Node.js, Vuex, PubNub, D3.js, jQuery, RxJS, Google Maps, Socket.IO
Tools
Stencil.js, Webpack, NPM, Git, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS), Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), Gulp, Android Studio, Xcode, Lerna, Google Cloud Messaging
Paradigms
Offline-first Development
Platforms
Docker, AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Android, Azure Functions
Storage
MongoDB, Redis, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Azure Cosmos DB
Other
Serverless, Progressive Web Applications (PWA), Mentorship & Coaching, Team Leadership, Technical Leadership, Performance Tuning, Front-end, Back-end, User Interface (UI), Architecture, System Architecture, Leadership, Full-stack Development, Internet of Things (IoT), Storybook
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
German University Of Cairo - Cairo, Egypt