About Me
Hi, my name is Karim. I'm a Technical Lead / Full Stack Developer in Australia. Over the years I developed a skill set in a range of technologies and frameworks, including React, Next.js, Angular, .NET Core, and TypeScript. Where I really value clean and readable code.
Also I'm very passionate about UX / UI. And last but not least, I enjoy building modern web applications and solving complex problems.
Details
- Karim Abdelsalam
- Sydney, Australia
- karim.ahmed@outlook.com.au
Interests
- Backend Development
- Frontend Development
- Problem Solving
Experience
Engineering Chapter Lead
WooliesX, Sydney•12/2023 - Present
- Led a team of 4 software engineers and 2 quality engineers finalize the delivery for the new Woolworths V3 e-stores.
- Managed a team of 6 and led the chapter meetings to go through new learnings.
- Helped chapter members put goals for career development and continuously worked on reviewing these goals against the required targets.
Technology Lead
WooliesX, Sydney•12/2020 - 08/2022
- Led a team of 4 software engineers deliver partial pick initiative which increased the throughput and efficiency of e-stores.
- Worked with 3rd part vendor in integration between Woolworths systems and external system to deliver orders to customers in a complete and efficient way.
- Led the conversation with the 3rd party vendor to design new Woolworths V3 e-stores integrations with the vendor's new Apis.
Senior Software Engineer
WooliesX, Sydney•12/2020 - 08/2022
- Design and develop a new process for two-way communication with the customer to allow choosing preferred substitutions.
- Design and develop new micro frontend application to receive the customer substitution preferences and update the order items.
- Perform code review and guidance for junior engineers.
- Create and update terraform project to deploy azure infra changes.
- Create release pipelines in azure devops to release new components.
- Technologies: .Net Core, .Net 4.8 MVC, React, MFE, Microservices, Azure, MongoDB, Terraform.
Senior Software Engineer
Jayride, Sydney•12/2020 - 08/2022
- Develop and support the existing Jayride platform which handles thousands of ground transportation bookings all over the world every year.
- Upgrade the current systems from dot net core 2.0 to 3.1 and Angular 6 to latest version.
- Design and develop the new membership microservice for the booking site.
- Participate in the migration of the system infrastructure from AWS to azure as a part of the cost optimization initiative.
- Create/Update ARM templates for CI/CD running on Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Perform code review on different frontend/backend modules.
- Technologies: .Net Core 3.1, .Net 4.8 MVC, Angular 10, Microservices, Azure, Event Driven Architecture, Azure Service Bus, MongoDB, MySQL, Cosmos DB.
Principal Software Engineer
ITWorx, KSA•07/2017 - 01/2020
- Designed/Developed new licensing mechanism for ONTRACK product to support external entity integrations.
- Led a team of 4 to successfully deliver and support ONTRACK organization balanced score card to five different Saudi ministries.
- Led a team of 4 developers and 2 QA engineers to successful delivery of a new governance workflow system for ministry of housing.
Technical Consultant
UMG, KSA•08/2015 - 11/2016
- Designed and developed UMG's new portal and workflows.
- Conducted several stake holder's meetings to gather requirements for the new HR processes.
Software Engineer
ITWorx, Egypt•07/2008 - 03/2011
- Developed different SharePoint web parts using SharePoint Feature Framework for major portal “Microsoft Arabic Book Portal“.
Skills
Backend
C#
.NET CORE
Web/REST API
Microservices
Node.js
Docker/Kubernetes
Cloud
Azure
Cloud Development
Terraform
Database
SQL Server
MongoDB
CosmosDB
Frontend
React
Angular
Next.js
TypeScript
Microfrontends
Others
Azure Pipelines
Agile
git
Azure Devops