SOLUTION ARCHITECT
SUMMERY
Senior developer and solution architect with 15 years of experience working in software development. I started in 2009 as a developer and enhanced my career in private and public sector institutions in Syria. I gained professional experience in developing business solutions within the education, financial, and software industries. In 2015 I decided to take on a new challenge in my life and moved to Sweden to continue my studies. The most exciting yet challenging stage in my career began in 2017 at Scania where I started as a senior developer. I still work at Scania at the moment developing innovative solutions with more focus on system architecture and business requirements.
EDUCATION
M.Sc. Social Media and Web Technologies
Linnaeus University (2015 – 2017) Växjö, Sweden
B.S. Software Engineering
Damascus University (2002 – 2007) Damascus, Syria
WORK EXPERIENCE
Solution Architect
Scania CV AB
2017 – PRESENT Stockholm, Sweden
Scania is a leading company in the automotive industry. At Scania I work for a core team that is responsible for developing quality assurance tools in production.
Key responsibilities:
- Analyzing requirements from customers (production personnel) and forming these requirements into use-cases and Jira tasks.
- Working cross-functional with different groups and connected systems in order to build interfaces, integrations and data flows between these systems.
- Defining architectural guidelines and helping team members in following best-practices in architecture design and system development.
- Designing, developing and maintaining the core quality assurance tools that are used in production. These tools are desktop applications built with WPF and connected to the trucks in production.
- Maintaining the core legacy system that is a monolith WCF services and making sure it is on high availability for production.
- Leading the development work towards micro-services with .net core that is intended to replace the legacy system.
- Leading the development towards cloud-based services in AWS which includes creating CloudFormation templates, building deployment pipelines, and designing core services in AWS.
Senior Developer
Syrian IT Company
10/2014 – 08/2015 Damascus, Syria
Syrian Information Technology is a significant company in IT industry in Syria. The company develops and maintains an ERP system that helps private and public institutions in automating their business processes and daily work.
My key responsibilities involved the development of some of the core modules in the system for the following departments: HR, Legal Affairs and IT. Tasks included:
- Analyzing business requirements by meeting the clients and understanding the workflow.
- Conceptualization and database scheme design.
- Templating modules using Entity Framework and Scaffolding.
- Coding functionality using ASP.NET MVC 4 (C#).
- Team member of ten developers.
Developer (Part time)
Epedia
08/2010 – 08/2015 Damascus, Syria
A key member within a team of engineers, testers and learning experts who’s mission was to develop the next digital content and e-learning materials in Syria. The team was responsible for the development of different projects. Tasks varied between the requirement analysis by meeting customers, developing and testing the systems, and deploying and maintaining the final products. The main projects:
- A joint-venture project between Epedia company and Syriatel (mobile leader company in Syria): Syria Sun Portal.
- Web portals: Ministry of Education (MOE), Educational TV (ETV), National Center of Distinguished (NCD).
- Epedia Content Management System (Epedia CMS).
- Epedia Student Information System (Epedia SIS).
- Epedia Learning Management System (Epedia LMS).
Student Information System Administrator
Syrian Private University (SPU)
08/2013 – 10/2014 Damascus, Syria
Projects:
The university student information system (SIS) provided a platform for the academic process, as well as the financial and administrative procedures in order to manage student information.
Responsibilities:
- Establishing the communication and collaboration with the outsourcing company that developed the SIS system in order to have a stable and customized version of the software that best meets the university requirements. This involved working on the development process, the deployment and the maintenance of the system.
Developer
Commercial Bank of Syria (CBS)
01/2012 – 08/2013 Damascus, Syria
Worked with the Visa team at the Commercial Bank of Syria. Our mission was to develop interfaces for the core banking system which enabled online banking services. These services included online payments with credit cards and mobile phones. My main responsibilities included designing, developing and deploying interfaces on the banking system using PHP SOAP. The back-end system infrastructure was built on Red Hat Linux which gave me an excellent experience working on bash and command line environments.
Business or sector: Banking Services
Web Developer
Syrian Ministry of Education
09/2009 – 01/2012 Damascus, Syria
I started my career as a web developer at the Syrian ministry of education. With a couple of developers we developed and maintained the official portal of the ministry of education. Our responsibilities varied from maintaining the ministry website, to adding new functionalities when needed using PHP and MySQL. This job also involved data migrations, hosting administration and service monitoring.
SKILLS
Programming
C#
ASP.NET
JavaScript
SQL
LINQ
Entity Framework
Java
JSON
YAML
AWS
Lambda
S3
IAM
VPC
Route53
ApiGateway
OpenSearch
Data
SQL Server
Oracle
MongoDB
DevOps
GIT
CI\CD
Docker
Jenkins
Jira
Perforce
Slack
Teams
STRENGTHES
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Communicative |
| Open-minded, patient and empathetic. Can contribute to any conversation out of curiosity for the subject. |
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Keen learner |
| Fueled by inquisitiveness and passion to move forward. Learns quickly and effectively due to self-motivation. |
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Collaborative |
| Achieves best results when working in a fast-paced environment with other people. Extroverted and happy to help others. |
LANGUAGES
| Arabic: | Native |
| English: | Fluent |
| Swedish: | Professional |
REFERENCES
Can be provided upon request