Franco Ghazaleh
Senior Backend Engineer (PHP/Golang)

Franco Ghazaleh

Highly skilled software development professional bringing more than 10 years in software design, development and integration, A self-directed and motivated Software Engineer who works effectively in a dynamic environment, Fluent in PHP OOP, Golang, C#, HTML5 and Javascript.

Berlin, GermanyItalianfranco.ghazaleh@gmail.comgithub.com/fghazalehlinkedin.com/in/fghazaleh
Franco Ghazaleh profile

Experience

March 2022 - present · Berlin, Germany

Senior Backend Engineer (PHP/Golang)

Nord Security (NordVPN) · VPN (B2B)
  • 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.
LinuxPHPGolangRabbitMQMySQLNginxDockerGitlabELK
February 2021 - February 2022 · Berlin, Germany

Senior Backend Engineer (PHP/Golang)

Auto1 Group · e-commerce (B2B, B2C)
  • 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.
LinuxPHPGolangMySQL/PostgresNginx/ApacheAWSLambdaAWS SQS/SNSELK
April 2020 - present · Berlin, Germany

Co-Founder/Developer

WahahStore · e-commerce
  • 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.
LinuxPHPOpenCartMySQLNginxHTML/CSSDigitalOcean
October 2018 - April 2020 · Berlin, Germany

Senior Backend Engineer

Productsup · SaaS (Data Feed)
  • 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.
LinuxPHPSymfony 4MySQL/RedisNginx/Apache Solr LuceneJenkinsHTML/CSS
July 2015 - August 2018 · Rome, Italy

Senior Software Engineer

Qettaf · eCommerce platform (B2C, B2B)
  • 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.
LinuxPHPJavaLaravel/LumenMySQL/RedisNginx/Apache Solr LuceneHTML/CSS
January 2015 - May 2018 · Amman, Jordan

Senior Software Engineer (PHP)

Souq.com (An Amazon Company) · eCommerce marketplace
  • 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.
Linux/AWSPHPJavaZend FrameworkMySQL/RedisApache MQNginx/Apache Solr LuceneHTML/CSS
October 2013 - December 2014 · Amman, Jordan

Senior PHP Developer

Kindi.com · Mobile Applications
  • 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.
Linux/AWSPHPSlim/CodeigniterZend FrameworkMySQL/RedisNginx/Apache Solr LuceneHTML/CSS
July 2010 - June 2013 · Amman, Jordan

Senior Software Developer

ikitab.com · SaaS - Content Provider
  • 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.
Linux/AWSPHPSlim Restful APIMySQLNginx/Apache Solr LuceneHTML/CSS
Show 4 earlier roles
November 2008 – September 2009 · Amman, Jordan

Senior Developer

Ketab Technology · Interactive Educational Content
April 2004 – June 2008 · Amman, Jordan

Senior Programmer

Rubicon (RGH) · E-learning and multimedia production
October 2002 – March 2004 · Amman, Jordan

Senior Developer

Mercury Techs · Accounting software
July 2001 – September 2002 · Amman, Jordan

Programmer

Turath Center for Computer Research · Accounting software