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Mohamed Taher

Mohamed Taher

14 years of experience Germany

Mohamed is a skilled Software Engineer with 13+ years of experience in different industries, starting from e-commerce and automotive to digital content and gaming.

As a seasoned developer, he has held multiple positions as a Senior Engineer where he helped build strong and scalable design systems. He's helped with founding technical solutions from scratch, hiring the team, and setting high level architecture.
He's enthusiastic about mentoring others and has experience managing a team of engineers and helping them grow into tech leads themselves.

One of his many career milestones includes being a founding employee of a product that got acquired by JIRA.

React Native Vue.js ReactJS Angular.js JavaScript GraphQL NodeJS MongoDB Nest.JS AWS S3 Amazon EC2 AWS CloudWatch AWS CloudFront Terraform Pulumi

Experience

Lead Engineer
Sep, 2021 - Present
Bytro
  • Responsibilities:

    ● Lead Engineer working to help with building a future-proof gaming engine
    ● Built a strong, and scalable design system to be the core for the games UI Kits
    ● Built frameworks to scaffold for future-proof games
    ● Executed long term plans to refactor the legacy code
    ● Planned and executed company OKRs
    ● Mentored and managed the engineering team, while creating growth plans
    ● Managed the hiring and resource planning for the projects
  • Technologies: JavaScript, Vue.js, Unity3D, AWS, JavaScript
Lead Engineer
Dec, 2020 - Sep, 2021
Vidmob
  • ● Built design systems for the web applications
    ● Technically lead the engineering team while building the design system
    ● Handed communication, and planning alongside designers in the design team
    ● Assisted the project manager with ticket creation and task allocation
  • Technologies: ReactJS, JavaScript, Design Systems
Senior Frontend Architect (carTrust)
Oct, 2020 - Dec, 2020
Kroschke gruppe GmbH
  • ● Senior Frontend Architect at carTrust - an enterprising initiative to digitize the car registration process within Germany using blockchain (Ethereum)
    ● Helped the team with architecting and building the back-office that manages all the entities in the system
  • Technologies: Angular 8+, JavaScript
Senior Web Engineer
Nov, 2018 - Dec, 2020
ShareNow
  • Worked as a Senior Web Engineer for the ShareNow platform, with a user base of over 2 million users.
    ● Contributed in various internal products inside the company while working with different teams, eventually joining the B2B team to improve their business services
    ● Contributed to the first design system (Plattenbau) for internal system application + created another one (Camelot) for customer-facing applications using storybook
    ● Developed B2B features required by the stakeholders and fully handling B2B apps infrastructure
    ● Built a design system for the user web/mobile applications (Camelot)
    ● Built a design system for the internal applications/portals (Plattenbau)
    ● Contributed to Architecture guild meetings, to decide on company high level Engineering topics
  • Technologies: Vue.js, React Native, JavaScript, Terraform, AWS, NodeJS
Senior Mobile Engineer
Feb, 2018 - Oct, 2018
AboutYou
  • ● Worked with the AY Mobile team to improve current mobile app, add new features, and optimize the performance using React Native
    ● Optimised app performance and improved user experience
    ● Added new features required by stakeholders
    ● Introduced and implemented unit tests
    ● Improved the CI/CD process (Bitrise)
    ● Built server middleware in NodeJS to reduce dependency on PHP backend Engineers
  • Technologies: React Native, AWS, JavaScript, NodeJS, CI/CD
Director of Technology
May, 2016 - Feb, 2018
Baddel
  • ● Helped businesses to technically go from ideation phase to production phase
    ● Hired and mentored the engineering team
    ● Coordinated communication between the technical team and technical 3rd parties
    ● Built & architected scalable infrastructure for the product
    ● Managed customer service to understand the users better
    ● Used meteor js to develop the micro-mobility platform, then migrated to Nest.js in order to develop a white-label solution
  • Technologies: Angular 8+, JavaScript, GCP, Meteor, Nest.JS
Founder & Tech Director
Jan, 2016 - Jan, 2018
Aphrie
  • ● Founded Aphrie in 2016, after successfully graduating from AUC V-Lab accelerator, then Y- Combinator startup school
    ● Gathered a strong team and convinced potential co-founders to join
    ● Built a robust business model
    ● The first product was called wheemo - a small gadget powered by a robust software, offering a tailored user experience for using a smartphone while driving a car, or riding a bike without any distraction
    ● Successfully built a working prototype
    ● Successfully raised pre-seed fund
  • Technologies: AWS, React Native
Technical Team Lead
May, 2014 - May, 2016
Youxel Technology
  • Hired as a Frontend Team Lead for service projects; after few months took the responsibility to lead the development (Frontend, Backend and QA) team of Youxel’s own product “TREMVO” now adam.ai, a platform for Meeting Management aimed for B2B entities
    ● Re-wrote the backend services from a .Net monolith to microservice architecture in Node.js
    ● Used Node.js to develop interfaces for Tensorflow to train an NLP engine
    ● Planed and coordinated tasks with the project manager
    ● Implemented advanced Engineering topics
    ● Brainstormed with Engineers to improve the solution, and seek new possible technologies
    ● Migrated the old codebase from jQuery to Angular
    ● Learnt and applied Agile methodology
  • Technologies: Azure, JavaScript, JavaScript, NodeJS
Co-Founder & Director of Technology
May, 2014 - May, 2016
Techtank
  • ● Co-founder of an Egyptian startup specialized in virtual reality, augmented reality, and Kinect applications using unity, or threejs
    ● Offered software development/consultancy for Hybrid mobile applications, and web applications
    ● Made Project SHIFT for Real Estate developers to enable their clients navigate and see their apartments before building, where they could also shop for appliances, furniture etc. from the inside
  • Technologies: AWS, Virtual Reality, Unreal Engine, JavaScript, JavaScript, React Native
I&C Engineer
Apr, 2010 - May, 2014
Ministry Of Electricity & Energy
  • ● IT & software support for various applications, mainly the plant core sppa-t3000 developed by Siemens
    ● Integrated smart solutions that serve plant routines and frequent tasks
    ● Software support for GE Speedtronic Mark VIe and ABB symphony harmony
  • Technologies: JavaScript, NodeJS

Education

Bachelor of Electronic Engineering
2004 - 2009
Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Minoufiya University

Achievements

Certifications

Web Application Architectures
University of New Mexico Issued May, 2015 - Jan, 2032
Credential ID: GYRYARP236