Netherlands

Full stack

Mina Sami

Tech Entrepreneur | Engineer | Consultant | Founder

Github

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Unit Testing

Postman

Zapier

Asana

Docker

Figma

GitHub

JavaScript

Jira

Confluence

GitLab

Node.js

REST API

Redis

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

● Developed an integration with StoryChief to maximize the productivity of the marketing team and
reachability of their blog articles.
● Developed an integration with HubSpot, in a two-way communication between the backend system and
HubSpot to track the status of the customer where they start as a lead until they become a customer.
● Helped the Support team to automate their host and guest cancellation process.
● Refactored and built the necessary business logic to reuse the existing business logic and rules in the
migration process, in order not to deviate into a different path.
● Helped and maintained the development environment including the CI/CD using Docker and github actions.
● Designed and implemented a test suite for the application and integrated it with the main pipeline as part of
the quality checks.

● Obeyo is a startup in its early phase of validating its customers’ needs and business model.
● I worked closely to the CEO, to validate user journey, calls with customers to understand their needs.
● I was involved in the hiring plan and recruiting the right talent for the job.
● I planned the roadmap, set priorities and drafted a product engineering rhythm playbook to help in
achieving product goals and milestones.
● Worked in building the backend in NodeJS and NestJS, which manages users, and inventory of the coliving
spaces.

● As a number 1 company in the upselling business to hotels, I have a role in shaping and maintaining our
number 1 upselling tool that serves thousands of chain hotels.
● Worked on building a RESTful microservice NodesJS using NestJS as a framework, to segment hotel guests
based on gender, age group, interest, how long is the stay.

● As a leading company helping its customers build a unique brand experience of a career website, my role
and responsibility included designing, developing and maintaining several packages that serves as clients for
several ATSes (application tracking systems) and connecting to them using RESTful / SOAP protocols.
● Maintaining and adding new features to the anti-corruption RESTful service layer around those clients,
which is the core domain of Endouble business model of serving thousands of vacancies along with their
forms and candidate applications for different customers using different client ATS connections.
● Working closely with project managers to gather and understand the customer needs and achieving those
requirements, that meant joining customer meetings / calls.

● Working in a scrum team together with 4 developers.
● Following DDD architecture and TDD, I’m responsible for maintaining, building new features to our new
back-end, in parallel to refactoring our monolith system into the new back-end.
● Contributing in designing and building lambda services as part of slicing our monolith system into
microservices.
● Built a nodejs zapier integration with our platform, enabling out customers to integrate and connect several
integrations via zapier.

● Building internal RESTful APIs in inter-app communication.
● Responsible, for maintaining and adding new features to the main backend application responsible for
sending SMS and acting as ERP as well.

● Software developer in a scrum team of 7 people.
● Responsible, for maintaining and adding new features to several back-end automating systems, as
micro-services, that are used widely for the auto-provisioning LeaseWeb BareMetal and Dedicated server
product in over 14 datacenters.
● Actively participating in designing and writing multiple of our new API services for our customers
(http://developer.leaseweb.com) and for integration with internal applications / services as well.
● Helped my team by acting as an interim Product Owner for 1 year, taking full responsibility of the position,
i.e. managing the backlog, conducting refinement sessions, roadmap Story mapping sessions, stakeholder
management, reviewing new business cases

Developing and maintaining various modules

● Lead small teams of one or two juniors, through the process of implementing and maintaining modules.
● Experience handling client requests and analyzing business requirements.
● Designing and maintained development plans, using Trac for bug/issue as a tracking system.
● Tracked changes required by customers and maintaining its effectiveness and quality through delivery
milestones.

● Involved in understanding of business requirements, design and development of projects.
● Applying Agile methodologies in projects development.
● Participated in designing and implementing the back-end/database of many projects.
● Helped in architecting and implementing a back-end framework of action/event logging.
● Designed and implemented a minified framework to do a Facebook like behavior in extracting data from
shared links, like YouTube and websites URLs using OGP (Open Graph Protocol).
● Knowledge of various tools (Google APIs, PHPExcel, Libchart, PayPal).

● Designing, redesigning, implementing, and maintaining different modules.
● Applied different design patterns and n-tier architecture.
● Extensive knowledge of Dundas UI Library.
● Building complex custom controls using primitive MFC controls and Dundas controls.
● Designing and implementing different kind of MFC DLLS (Extension and Regular DLLS).
● Working with different CAD systems.
● Designing and implementing installation script and media preparation, wrote logic to accomplish both, new
installation and backward compatibility for updating pervious installed versions using the Install Shield 11.
● Designing, redesigning, implementing, and maintaining different modules.

Mina Sami🇳🇱