Summary

Principal Full-Stack Engineer with 18+ years of experience architecting, scaling, and mentoring across the full product lifecycle. Led the re-platforming of a multi-tenant B2B SaaS serving 5M+ monthly active users (Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS), cutting p95 latency by 62% and infrastructure cost by 40%. Designed event-driven microservices (Kafka, Kubernetes) processing 300M+ daily events, established platform engineering standards for 40+ engineers, and shipped SOC 2-ready security controls with observability-first practices that reduced incident MTTR from 45 to 12 minutes.

Technical Skills

Frontend

React, TypeScript, Next.js (App Router, RSC, SSR), Tailwind CSS, Redux Toolkit, React Query, Web Performance (Core Web Vitals), Accessibility (WCAG 2.2), Framer Motion

Backend & APIs

Node.js, Express.js, NestJS, GraphQL (Apollo), REST API Design, gRPC, JWT & OAuth 2.0 (HttpOnly), RBAC/ABAC, OpenAPI/Swagger, Event-Driven Architecture

Databases & Data

PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Prisma, Mongoose, Query Optimization, Sharding & Partitioning, Data Modeling, CDC Pipelines

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Vercel, Cloudflare, Nginx

Architecture & Scale

Microservices, Domain-Driven Design, CQRS & Event Sourcing, Kafka, RabbitMQ, System Design, Load Balancing, Multi-Tenancy, Caching Strategies

Observability & Testing

OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Grafana, Sentry, Jest, Vitest, Playwright, k6 (Load Testing), Contract Testing, Chaos Engineering

Security & Compliance

OWASP Top 10, Threat Modeling, SOC 2 Readiness, Secrets Management (Vault), Rate Limiting, WAF Configuration, Penetration Testing Remediation

Leadership & AI-Augmented Development

Team Leadership (40+ engineers), Technical Mentoring, Architecture Reviews, Engineering Standards, Claude / Copilot MCP Workflows, Review-Driven Delivery

Professional Experience

Principal Full-Stack Engineer — NovaGrid Systems

2018 – Present

Lead architect of a multi-tenant B2B SaaS platform (Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS) serving 5M+ monthly active users across 30+ enterprise customers.
Re-platformed a legacy monolith into event-driven microservices (Kafka, Kubernetes, ECS), reducing p95 API latency by 62% and infrastructure spend by 40%.
Established platform engineering standards — golden-path CI/CD templates, OpenAPI contracts, and architecture review boards — adopted by 40+ engineers across 6 squads.
Designed SOC 2-ready security controls: OAuth 2.0 with HttpOnly cookie sessions, ABAC authorization, WAF hardening, and centralized audit logging via OpenTelemetry.
Introduced observability-first practices (Datadog SLOs, distributed tracing, k6 load testing) that cut incident MTTR from 45 to 12 minutes.
Mentored 15+ senior engineers; 6 promoted to staff level while maintaining a 92% team retention rate.

Staff Software Engineer — HelioCloud

2013 – 2018

Built the real-time collaboration service (Node.js, WebSocket, Redis) powering 2M+ concurrent sessions with sub-100ms propagation.
Migrated the billing stack to Stripe (subscriptions, usage-based pricing, dunning) with idempotent webhook processing and zero revenue leakage for 3 consecutive years.
Cut AWS costs by $480K/year through right-sizing, spot orchestration, and a Redis + CDN caching strategy for high-traffic endpoints.
Led the GraphQL migration (Apollo Federation) unifying 12 REST services behind a single typed gateway for 5 client teams.
Championed automated testing culture, raising coverage from 31% to 85% with Jest, Supertest, and Playwright E2E suites in GitHub Actions.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer — DataForge Labs

2009 – 2013

Shipped a data-visualization analytics dashboard (React, D3.js, MongoDB) used by 400+ enterprise analysts daily.
Designed REST APIs and MongoDB aggregation pipelines handling 50M+ documents with server-side pagination and atomic counters.
Built an internal ETL toolkit (Node.js, RabbitMQ) that reduced client data onboarding time from 2 weeks to 2 days.
Introduced Agile practices and a code review culture that doubled release frequency within one year.

Software Engineer — WebCraft Studio

2005 – 2009

Delivered 20+ client web applications end-to-end using PHP, MySQL, and early JavaScript frameworks.
Built a reusable CMS component library reused across 14 client projects, cutting delivery time by 35%.
Owned Linux (Ubuntu) deployment pipelines, Apache/Nginx configuration, and 99.9% uptime maintenance for hosted clients.

Projects

Atlas Commerce — Headless Multi-Vendor Platform

Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Stripe, AWS | atlas.example.com

Architected a headless multi-vendor commerce platform processing $12M+ annual GMV with sub-second page loads.
Implemented Stripe Connect payouts, idempotent checkout flows, and real-time inventory with PostgreSQL row-level locking.
Achieved 95+ Lighthouse performance and SEO scores via Next.js SSR, an optimized image pipeline, and edge caching.

PulseGrid — Real-Time Product Analytics

React, D3.js, Node.js, Kafka, ClickHouse, Kubernetes | pulsegrid.example.com

Built a real-time product-analytics platform ingesting 300M+ events per day through Kafka into ClickHouse.
Designed role-based dashboards with D3.js visualizations rendering 100K-point datasets at 60fps.
Deployed on Kubernetes with HPA autoscaling; achieved 99.95% availability across 18 months.

ForgeShip — Internal CI/CD Orchestrator

Node.js, TypeScript, Docker, GitHub Actions, Redis, Terraform

Created an internal CI/CD orchestrator with ephemeral Docker builders scheduling a 300+ job daily queue.
Reduced average pipeline time from 22 to 6 minutes via registry caching layers and parallel test sharding.
Managed infrastructure as code with Terraform across 3 AWS environments (dev, staging, prod).

LinguaChat — Bilingual Support Chat Platform

Next.js, WebSocket, Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, OpenAI API

Built a bilingual (English/Arabic) customer-support chat platform with full RTL support and live translation.
Handled 8K+ concurrent WebSocket connections per node with Redis pub/sub fan-out.
Integrated AI-assisted reply suggestions that cut average agent response time by 38%.

Education

M.Sc. Software Engineering — Cloud Distributed Systems | 2011
B.Sc. Computer Science | 2007
AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional | 2023
CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator | 2021