Louay Salamon
Verified Expert in Engineering
Unix Shell Scripting Developer
Louay is a seasoned data engineer with a solid software engineering background, experienced with massive data, distributed computing, critical data management, scalability solutions, and business intelligence. He's creative and takes initiative, and has well-developed project management and leadership qualities. These coalesce for him into the ability and the confidence to accept critical business challenges aligned with his projects.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Flexibility
The most amazing...
...thing I've made is a graph-guided backtracking algorithm to suggest the optimal traffic steering to maximize net margin.
Work Experience
Data Engineer Consultant
Quantillo
- Led data architecture and back-end development for Quantillo's tailored BI products.
- Created descriptive/predictive analytics.
- Designed and implemented data pipelines which were later migrated from bash/cron jobs to Airflow (Python).
- Migrated all ETL jobs from Oracle PL/SQL to Spark (Scala).
- Designed and implemented several tailored revenue optimization algorithms in PL\SQL, which were later migrated to use Spark (Scala).
Senior Software Engineer
Emirates Airline
- Developed data models, algorithms, and back-end services to manage and analyze customer loyalty network for millions of daily users (6TB of data with a live rule engine for rating).
- Planned and implemented back-end fixes, batches, and upgrades.
- Migrated part of the reporting processes to Hadoop stack (SQPop, Hive, Impala, and HDFS).
- Handled security governance, unified monitoring and notification, data aging policies, and workload capacity handling techniques.
- Received Najm (Star) Award for a scalability solution project of the Skywards loyalty program.
Data Architect & Database Administrator
Syriatel Mobile Telecom
- Designed and implemented various data replication, scalability, and cloning strategies for production, pre-production, staging, testing, and development environments.
- Provided 24/7 support for over ninety databases (~100TB) and thirty application servers with various availability options including RAC, Data Guard, HA clusters, and ASM.
- Managed and enhanced a shell-based Syriatel file management system (pulling, distributing, and loading).
Database Administrator
Yarmouk Private University
- Managed data integration among various systems (academic, financial, integrated library system ILS and learning management system LMS).
- Planned and implemented enterprise information strategy, a BI portal, a Koha integrated library management system, and Moodle content management system.
Software Developer
AIU
- Built an enterprise BI portal from the ground up including warehouse design, ETL, mining modules, and presentation.
- Developed an AIU student portal and a customized HRMS.
Application Developer
Cham Palace Hotel
- Designed and implemented a complex reservation module as a part of the entire hospitality system.
- Contributed to end-to-end hospitality system implementation and customization in ten hotels and three branches.
Experience
Performance-based Academic Decision Support System
Telecom Inter-operator Tariff and Traffic Steering
Skills
Languages
SQL, Scala, Python, Java, Bash, C#, HTML5, CSS3
Tools
Oracle Forms, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Apache, Oracle Reports, Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB), Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (OBIEE), Apache Airflow
Platforms
Oracle Application Server, Oracle BI EE 11g, Java EE, Oracle Database, Oracle Linux
Storage
Oracle 12c, Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle 11g, PL/SQL, Oracle9i, Oracle 10g
Frameworks
Apache Spark, Hadoop, Spark
Other
Big Data, Oracle Forms & Reports, Oracle API Gateway, Flexibility, Oracle WebLogic Application Server, Unix Shell Scripting, IIS
Education
Master's Degree in Information systems
Damascus University - Damascus
Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering
Damascus University - Damascus
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