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Rami B.RB

Rami B.

Senior Backend Architecture Consultant

$650/day
Dubai, AE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Rami

Hi — I'm Rami, a senior backend engineer and architecture consultant with 13+ years building production systems at scale. The platforms I've worked on serve 1M+ users with peak loads of 700K+ concurrent clients — Node.js microservices, high-availability architectures, complex third-party and embedded-device integrations.
What I bring isn't tutorial-grade knowledge — it's the kind of architectural intuition you only get from shipping real systems and watching them break under real traffic. I've designed edge-tier configurations that fan out operator updates to hundreds of thousands of clients without a database in the hot path, integrated with embedded device middleware where root-cause analysis means working with limited internal vendor visibility, and led migrations from monolithic backends to multi-tier microservices serving production traffic.
I'm available for project-based engagements (~10 hours/week, UAE evening hours that overlap with EU midday and US East Coast morning) in:
• Architecture audits and microservices design
• Backend API design and implementation (Node.js, Express.js, TypeScript)
• Database design and query optimization (MySQL)
• Performance optimization and load handling at scale
• Third-party and partner system integrations
• Senior code review and technical due diligence
How I work: bring me a real problem — a design decision that needs an experienced second opinion, a system hitting scaling limits, an integration that isn't behaving. I'll work through it with you directly, share honest tradeoff analysis, and ship working solutions. I'm not interested in vague advisory work — I want to move things forward.
  • Arabic

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • UAE-based Technology Group
    Senior Developer
    April 2017 - January 2019 (1 year and 9 months)
    Dubai - United Arab Emirates
    • Built and maintained backend services for a high-availability IPTV/OTT platform (Node.js, Express.js, MEAN stack)
    • Designed and implemented core integrations with multiple third-party platforms — STB middleware, billing systems, content providers
    • Owned end-to-end feature development: architectural design → implementation → testing → production rollout
    • Contributed to the foundational backend serving 1M+ users with 700K+ daily actives at peak load
    • Helped establish code review and automated testing practices within the development team
    Node.js expressjs MySQL API REST Back-End development
  • UAE-based Technology Group
    Tech Lead
    January 2019 - January 2022 (3 years)
    Dubai, United Arab Emirates
    • Led architecture and technical design for major platform features, integrations, and performance work
    • Designed and built a custom load-resilient configuration distribution system: single-writer control tier feeds operator-published settings to edge servers storing configuration in flash memory, eliminating DB I/O on the hot path and enabling instant fan-out to 700K+ concurrent clients
    • Drove the migration from monolithic backend toward microservices architecture: defined service boundaries, communication patterns, and data-ownership models
    • Mentored 5–7 backend engineers on system design, code quality, and production debugging
    • Established code review processes across the team
    Microservices code review system design Typescript Back-End development
  • UAE-based Technology Group
    Head of Software Development
    January 2022 - Today (4 years and 5 months)
    Dubai, United Arab Emirates
    • Lead the software development organization (~10 engineers); own hiring, mentorship, performance management, and team-level architecture decisions
    • Own architectural strategy across multiple parallel projects: technology stack selection, scalability planning, integration design
    • Designed and operate a 3-tier microservices architecture spanning 52 production servers (scaling to 70), separating control plane, processing tier, and edge delivery tier
    • Delivered a first-of-its-kind proof of concept combining social interaction with IPTV home entertainment — 4-month integration with a third-party platform, presented as flagship demo at a global telecom industry event in Dubai
    • Maintain 5–10 continuous third-party integrations per active project (STB middleware vendors, partner platforms, backend services); lead root-cause analysis when third-party hardware misbehaves with limited internal vendor-system visibility
    • Drove adoption of Node.js / Express.js as the standard backend stack for new builds
    Software Architecture Engineering Management Distributed Systems Performance Optimization Mentoring

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Education

  • B.Sc. in Computer Science
    Damascus University
    2013
    B.Sc. in Computer Science

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