United Arab Emirates

Back-end

Architectural Engineering

Site Reliability

Systems Design

Mostafa Zaher

Senior Engineering Manager

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Leadership

Project management

Cloud computing

Python

GitHub

Google Ads

Java

gRPC

REST API

MongoDB

Redis

Node.js

Team player

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

General mentorship

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

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

Keeping team members motivated

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

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

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

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

Design career path

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

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

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

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

Working cross-functionally

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

Working with engineers

Leading multiple cross-functional teams working on the quick commerce Shopping and Growth experience.

Working in one of the Marketplace Group teams

• Manager of 5 Engineering Managers and a maximum of 70 software engineers divided across ten teams.
• Led multiple of Swvl's big bets projects from Search, Pricing, Dynamic Routing, Supply Planning/Scheduling, Dispatcher, and ETA.
• Improve the hiring, onboarding/offboarding, and promotion processes.
• Establish software development life cycle to ensure the high quality, throughput, and impact of the engineering teams.
• Scaled the team by 300% in 2 years.
• Maintain the team eNPS of +25.

Skills: Team Leadership · Coaching & Mentoring · Team Management · Hiring · Leadership · Solution Architecture · Kubernetes · Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Led a group of 5 software engineers.
• Work with the product team on grooming the backlog and writing user stories.
• Give technical sessions and guide junior engineers with their tasks.
* Plan with CTO/Architect ways to develop our engineering stack over the short and long term.
* Screen and Interview the engineering team candidates.

Skills: Team Leadership · Coaching & Mentoring · Hiring · Leadership · Solution Architecture · Kubernetes · Amazon Web Services (AWS)

As part of the Engineering team, helped in building new features of Affectiva's web portal, RESTful
API and Android SDK. Took part in managing (i.e., administrating,
monitoring, deploying, and fixing production outages) different services across multiple Amazon Web Services accounts.

Also, I worked with the science team on indexing a data lake of billions of video frames
using Presto, Hive, Parquet, and AWS (EMR, S3, Redshift, and Batch).

Worked on integrating new partners’ systems on Affectiva’s facial and expression detection systems.
Plus, working on getting Affectiva’s leading emotion sensing technology to the Android platform by
embedding it in a mobile SDK.

Tutored 5 classes and a total of 80+ students. Held the scrum master position for all classes. Each
of them worked on a software project for either a reallife startup or NGO.

Worked with this regional MSC Software partner on a python based file converter. Designed and built a program to parse huge files (over 6M lines) and convert them to a different file format.

Architected and developed a fleet management system that’s both highly extensible and available
using Python/Django, AngularJS, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Celery, Nginx & Supervisor.

Worked in an all GNU/Linux environment and helped in troubleshooting regular GNU/Linux systems.

Mostafa Zaher🇦🇪