Yousof – AWS, React, Typescript

Led the architecture and delivery of business-critical authorization and gateway solutions within a large-scale digital ecosystem. The project focused on building secure, scalable access control and API gateway layers to manage authentication, traffic routing, and service-to-service communication. Acted as a technical lead across multiple high-impact initiatives, ensuring reliability, performance, and security for systems serving millions of users.

• Architected replacement of legacy monolithic authorization system, improving administration workflows by 95%;
• Designed and implemented a custom Layer-7 API Gateway handling 1M+ concurrent requests per pod;
• Led adoption of Event Sourcing and Kafka-based architectures, achieving 80% performance improvements;
• Owned security architecture, including asymmetric encryption and compliance with InfoSec audits;
• Mentored engineers and influenced architectural standards across multiple teams.

Led a project focused on modernizing legacy systems and evolving core web services and marketing platforms. The work involved improving performance, optimizing infrastructure costs, and aligning technical initiatives with the broader product roadmap. Key efforts included refactoring existing systems, enhancing scalability and efficiency, and ensuring the platforms could better support growing user and business needs.

• Led modernization of legacy platforms into cloud-native architectures;
• Partnered with executive stakeholders on technical strategy and roadmap planning;
• Reduced cloud costs while improving system performance and reliability;
• Established engineering standards and deployment practices across teams.

Led a project focused on transforming the company’s digital delivery capabilities to better support a large base of high-value clients. The work involved improving platform performance, enhancing user experience, and aligning technical solutions with business needs to deliver more reliable and scalable digital services.

• Transformed 410+ outdated websites and 5+ internal reporting tools, achieving maximum performance and compatibility;
• Reduced AWS, GCP infrastructure, and manpower costs by up to 65%;
• Constructed a core business reporting tool from scratch, saving at least 50% in hosting costs and delivering 3x faster results;
• Automated crucial data collection to ensure high-value website maintenance;
• Created 50+ guides and documents for key processes, ensuring future business continuity;

Led a development team responsible for delivering high-performance, web-based applications. The project focused on building scalable and efficient solutions, ensuring strong system performance, and maintaining high-quality standards across the full development lifecycle, from planning and architecture to delivery and ongoing improvements.

• Developed and managed high-performance web services and websites;
• Optimized VPS hosting servers for maximum performance and scalability;
• Progressed to a Partner role, taking on additional responsibilities.
• Managed stakeholders in collaboration with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager, ensuring alignment on priorities, requirements, and delivery goals.