About me
With over 13 years of experience, I have been designing, building, and optimizing banking software solutions that are secure, scalable, and high-performing.
As a Software Solution Architect, I focus on modernizing legacy systems, leading microservices transformation, and designing high-availability architectures. My work includes ensuring fault tolerance, implementing CI/CD pipelines, optimizing system performance, and strengthening security through OWASP best practices and IAM solutions.
Before moving into architecture, I spent years as a software developer and team leader, working on core banking applications, API development, enterprise integrations (ESB), and mobile banking solutions. I have led full-stack development teams, revamped UI/UX for banking platforms, and ensured systems meet security and compliance standards.
Beyond my professional work, I enjoy building independent projects. One of my personal apps, Private Read for WhatsApp, has been downloaded over 2 million times, maintaining a 4-star rating with zero infrastructure costs.
Experience
Software Solutions Architect | Capital Banking Solutions (April 2023 - Present)
- 🔷 Architecting Scalable Solutions: Architect and design secure, scalable, and maintainable software solutions leveraging cutting-edge technology trends and industry best practices.
- 🔄 Modernizing Legacy Systems: Lead technical & architectural analysis for migrating monolithic applications into microservices-based architectures (Composable Architecture).
- 🛠️ Ensuring System Reliability: Design and implement redundancy, failover strategies, and load balancing to ensure continuous availability of banking applications.
- 🚀 Optimizing Deployment Processes: Enhance applications packaging and deployment efficiency by applying containerization technologies (Docker).
- ⚡ Streamlining Development Workflows: Drive the implementation of modern CI/CD pipelines into the development workflow, streamlining the process and enhancing efficiency.
- 🛡️ Application Security: Collaborate with independent security audit firms to ensure applications are fortified against threats.
- ✅ Technology Validation: Develop proof-of-concepts and prototypes to validate new technologies & architectural approaches before full-scale implementation.
- ⚙️ Performance Optimization: Enhance system performance, achieving a 10x improvement in processing efficiency for select critical banking operations.
- 👥 Team Collaboration & Technical Guidance: Collaborate with development teams to ensure a seamless and compliant development process, providing technical guidance whenever necessary.
- 📖 Knowledge Sharing & Training: Conduct knowledge-sharing sessions and workshops to promote best practices and enhance the technical expertise across the teams.
- 🎤 Pre-Sales & Technical Demonstrations: Engage in Pre-sales activities, responding to technical RFPs and delivering live demonstrations (in English, French, or Arabic) showcasing the technical aspects of various solutions.
Software Development Team Leader | Capital Banking Solutions (April 2023 - Present)
- 📱 Mobile Banking & Digital Transformation: Led a team responsible for full-stack development, maintenance, and analysis of mobile banking and mobile wallet applications, supporting banks in their digital transformation journey.
- 🏦 Core Banking System Development: Supervised the design, development, and maintenance of complex banking software applications, including Checks Process Management, Payments, Overdraft Management, AML (Anti-Money Laundering), and Trade Finance.
- 🛠️ Team Leadership & Technical Strategy: Managed planning, priority definition, technical analysis, and quality audits, while also mentoring developers and ensuring the team had the necessary technical support.
- 🎤 Pre-Sales & Client Demonstrations: Delivered live technical demonstrations of Digital Mobile Banking solutions in English, French, and Arabic, both online and on client premises.
- 🤝 Cross-Team Collaboration & Best Practices: Worked closely with development and architecture teams to define best practices, standards, and reusable libraries, forming the technical foundation of banking applications.
- 🧑💼 Recruitment & Team Expansion: Participated in hiring and interviewing processes, ensuring the selection of skilled professionals.
Senior Software Developer | Capital Banking Solutions (June 2011 - June 2017)
- 🔄 Banking System Migration & Modernization: Led the migration of Oracle Forms-based banking modules into Oracle ADF, defining best practices for extracting embedded business logic into reusable PL/SQL packages and developing ADF task flows. (Technologies: Oracle ADF, Java EE, EJB, JPA, PL/SQL, Oracle Forms)
- 🌐 Internet Banking Development & UI Revamp: Led a team of three developers in a full-scale UI revamp for the bank’s internet banking platform, introducing new functionalities and improving user experience. (Technologies: Java SE, JSP, HTML4, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery)
- 🛡️ Application Security & OWASP Compliance: Implemented OWASP security best practices in internet banking applications, protecting against SQL Injection, CSRF, XSS, Session Hijacking, and Parameter Injection.
- 🔗 API & Web Services Development: Designed and implemented RESTful APIs to expose core banking functionalities in a Business-to-Business (B2B) model using Spring Boot.
- 💳 Interbank Communication Systems: Developed applications to handle generation, reception, and integration of banking information in XML format, ensuring seamless interbank communication. (Technologies: Java SE, JAXB, PL/SQL)
- 📱 SMS Banking System Implementation: Developed, configured, and deployed an SMS Banking Interface to facilitate transaction notifications and alerts. (Technologies: Oracle PL/SQL, Ozeki SMS Gateway)
- 👨🏫 Team Leadership & Agile Development: Mentored junior developers, assigned tasks, and ensured adherence to SCRUM methodology for development cycles.
- 🔍 Code Review & Quality Assurance: Conducted code reviews, enforcing coding standards, performance optimizations, and best practices.
Technical Skills
- 🏛️ Software Architecture & Performance: Software Architecture, System Design, Performance Tuning, High Availability, Microservices, CI/CD
- 🔐 Security & Compliance: OWASP, Web Application Security, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Cybersecurity
- 🗄️ Databases: Oracle Database, SQLite, MySQL
- 🖥️ Backend Development: Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, REST APIs, API Design, Microservices
- 🎨 Frontend Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, Ionic Framework
- ☁️ DevOps & Cloud: CI/CD, Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), WebLogic, Git, SVN
- 🟠 Oracle Technologies: Oracle ADF, Oracle Forms, Oracle PL/SQL
Education
-
Lebanese American University (2008 - 2011)
BS, Computer Science
Activities and societies: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) -
College Notre Dame de Lourdes - Freres Maristes, Jbeil - Amchit (1993 - 2008)
Life Science Diploma
Licenses & Certifications
- 📜 The Complete Cloud Computing Software Architecture Patterns
Udemy
Credential ID: UC-766ab83f-f955-47a1-888e-468629f9488a - Show - 🔧 DevOps: Certified Jenkins Engineer
Udemy
Credential ID: UC-b63717d4-2ee4-4da4-9833-31a942bcbfcf - Show - 🏦 Certified Banking Domain Professional
MVLCO Centre for Banking and FinTech
Credential ID: 915O-136-1Y1 - Show - 🐙 GitHub Ultimate: Master Git and GitHub - Beginner to Expert
Udemy
Credential ID: UC-3310bba2-417c-4866-9388-69ce49aa5956 - Show - 📈 Management Development Program
Formatech - Integrated Learning Centers
Show