About Rami
Arabic
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Experience
- UAE-based Technology GroupSenior DeveloperApril 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
- UAE-based Technology GroupTech LeadJanuary 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
- UAE-based Technology GroupHead of Software DevelopmentJanuary 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
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Education
- B.Sc. in Computer ScienceDamascus University2013B.Sc. in Computer Science