Franco Ghazaleh

Senior Backend Engineer (PHP/Golang)

Nord Security (NordVPN)

2021 - present

VPN (B2B)

Role overview:

• Leading new features/projects by writing tech-specs documents, creating POC and suggesting solutions to the team: Ex.(Download invoices/Payment migration).
• Sharing the knowledge with the team and ensuring the team is following our code standards/processes.
• Keep improving and maintaining the existing codebase and improving the code quality and automated testing.

Projects:

• NordLayer B2B platform: Its a PHP platform managing the VPN accounts/Servers for organization.
• New upsell payment: It's a PHP service responsible for processing the order and doing the checkout process asynchronously.

Technologies used:

• Linux
• PHP
• Golang
• RabbitMQ
• MySQL
• Nginx
• Docker
• Gitlab
• ELK

Senior Backend Engineer (PHP/Golang)

Auto1 Group

2021 - 2022

e-commerce (B2B, B2C)

Role overview:

• Built a service layer to process inbound merchants' payments to support the cash Management Team.
• Built an integration layer with Oracle Application ERP by using Golang Lambda service to sync the customer details.
• Maintained the existing services and improved the code quality and automated testing.

Projects:

• Finance-AR-invoice service: It's a PHP service handling the Invoice/Proforma generation and auto-booking cars/packages/transportation.
• Inbound-Payment-tool: It's a PHP service handling the inbound payments from different sources and displaying all merchants' payment transactions to Cash Management Team.
• Exchange lambda service: It's a Golang Lambda service handling the exchange between cash collector and 3rd-party payment service.

Technologies used:

• Linux
• PHP
• Golang
• MySQL/Postgres
• Nginx/Apache
• AWS
• Lambda
• AWS SQS/SNS
• ELK

Co-Founder/Developer

WahahStore

2020 - present

e-commerce

Role overview:

• Managing and keep running the online OpenCart 3.x shop on servers
• Building new features for Backoffice and Shop.

Projects:

• Wahahstore.com: An online shop supporting Arabic/English interface.

Technologies used:

• Linux
• PHP
• OpenCart
• MySQL
• Nginx
• HTML/CSS
• DigitalOcean

Senior Backend Engineer

Productsup

2018 - 2020

SaaS (Data Feed)

Role overview:

• Developed an efficient, fast and reliable backend solution for real-time feed processing.
• Refactored backend legacy code by improving the performance, code quality, and testing.
• Developed new executables in the top of docker to run independently from our Infrastructure.

Projects:

• New Monitoring: A backend solution for real-time notification and alert system using queuing for certain actions.
• Async Processing Manager: A package for controlling multiples Symfony Process.
• IceCat Open Catalog: A microservice allows our client to integrate their data feed with IceCat OC to enrich their products.

Technologies used:

• Linux
• PHP
• Symfony 4
• MySQL/Redis
• Nginx/Apache Solr Lucene
• Jenkins
• HTML/CSS

Senior Software Engineer

Qettaf

2015 - 2018

eCommerce platform (B2C, B2B)

Role overview:

• Developing new features using PHP on Laravel framework.
• Worked effectively with design teams to ensure software solutions were delivered to a high standard of quality and user experience.
• Directed software design and development while remaining focused on client needs.
• Developed a Lucene search indexer using Java7 and MySQL.
• Responsible for solution architecture and database design.

Projects:

• DDL.ae: A web-based PHP English-Arabic language e-commerce platform.
• Mrqoom.net: A web-based PHP English-Arabic language portal for digital content.
• Mrqoom API: A restful API build on Lumen PHP framework.
• DDL Catalog: A Node.js/MongoDb service used restful APIs to communicate with eCommerce for DDL catalog.

Technologies used:

• Linux
• PHP
• Java
• Laravel/Lumen
• MySQL/Redis
• Nginx/Apache Solr Lucene
• HTML/CSS

Senior Software Engineer (PHP)

Souq.com (An Amazon Company)

2015 - 2015

eCommerce marketplace

Role overview:

• Wrote maintainable and extensible PHP code for the backend Order Management System (OMS).
• Worked closely with other team members to plan, design and develop robust solutions in a timely manner.

Projects:

• Souq.com: A web-based English-Arabic language e-commerce platform.

Technologies used:

• Linux/AWS
• PHP
• Java
• Zend Framework
• MySQL/Redis
• Apache MQ
• Nginx/Apache Solr Lucene
• HTML/CSS

Senior PHP Developer

Kindi.com

2013 - 2014

Mobile Applications

Role overview:

• Backend development using PHP OOP.
• Developed high standard restful APIs using Zend framework and Slim.
• Frontend development using Codeigniter framework, CSS3, Ajax, JQuery and bootstrap.
• Database design and development (MySQL Server, Stored procedures and functions).
• Integrating with social APIs such as Facebook Graph API and Twitter (Streaming and Restful API).

Projects:

• Yaqut Books: A Bookshelf mobile application using PHP restful API in backend server, by using the API to sync data between mobile devices and databases.
• Yaqut Login: An OAuth V2.0 Server and user profiles developed and implemented to create SSO and provide access to all the company’s apps from a single point.
• Yaqut News: A News mobile application using PHP restful API to get live news feeds from the database, and developed a cronjob that runs as a service to import twitter streaming into the database.
• Yaqut Publisher: A web-based solution for publishers and authors used for books reporting, charting and book management (create, update and delete books).
• Yaqut Store: A web-based responsive website for the Yaqut book store.
• Yaqut Store API: A store mobile application using PHP restful API.
• Yaqut Search Engine: A PHP restful API that uses Apache Solr search engine to create indexing for more than 10k books metadata as well as search queries.

Technologies used:

• Linux/AWS
• PHP
• Slim/Codeigniter
• Zend Framework
• MySQL/Redis
• Nginx/Apache Solr Lucene
• HTML/CSS

Senior Software Developer

ikitab.com

2010 - 2013

SaaS - Content Provider

Role overview:

• Responsible for the development of iKitab’s web portals including planning, defining and overseeing the production process.
• Responsible for designing and developing mobile iOS and Android applications.
• Responsible for developing many production-support tools, and end product desktop and web-based applications.

Projects:

• Al-Jamea BookShelf: An iOS bookshelf mobile application developed using native Objective-c l anguage and is used to purchase and read eBooks from the iKitab Book-Store.

Technologies used:

• Linux/AWS
• PHP
• Slim Restful API
• MySQL
• Nginx/Apache Solr Lucene
• HTML/CSS