Zembra

A complete application for review data collection from major review platforms like Google, Yelp, Facebook, 20+ other networks.
Zembra is the best tool to gather review data and social contents (like Instagram comments, TikTok videos, etc.).

Zembra consists of an API that returns reviews in a standardized format for optimal data aggregation. It solves scalability and fingerprinting detection challenges.

Zembra: https://www.zembratech.com/
API Documentation: https://docs.zembra.io/
SaaS: https://my.zembratech.com/
API endpoint: https://api.zembra.io/
API sandbox: https://sandbox.zembra.io/
Knowledge Base: https://help.zembratech.com/
Status page: https://status.zembra.io/

CEO & Founder

Capital One

Senior Software Engineering Manager

ISC (Integrated Specialty Coverages, LLC)

ISC is a wholesaler insurance company. As part of the ISC engineering department, the backbone of ISC, we provide and maintain the main web-based software and infrastructure used by thousands of users of different roles: agents, underwriters, auditors, carriers, etc. to illustrate the lifecycle of an insurance policy.

As a software engineer, I take part in:
• Add new products to the platform: rating and quote generation, legal document generation, etc.
• Design and develop new services to be consumed by the main platform and exposed to partners: wholesaler portal, OCR microservice, …
• Provide support to existing products by implementing updates and business requested changes, in addition to resolving eventual bugs.
• Design and implement new features.
• Lead a local team and oversee work conducted by a remote outsourcing team

At ISC, my role expands beyond development:
• Run daily scrum
• Setup code standard
• Setup SonarQube
• Code reviews
• Mentoring and continuous training for junior developers
• Run interviews: phone screening + virtual/on site interviews
• Helped reorganize developer teams to improve productivity
• Helped grow the team by actively reaching out to candidates and succeeded in referring 4 former coworkers to join ISC
• Contributed to transforming the work environment into a fun space
• Department process improvement contribution impacting interaction between developers, QA engineers, product managers, and business analysts.
• Research and POCs
• Setup unit test framework + Github integration + training
• Production support
• Setup Jenkins jobs
• Run deployments

The tech stack is essentially LAMP built on top of the Zend framework. Local environment in AWS EC2 VMs.

Visit https://tech.iscmga.com/ for additional information. Tools: PHP – Javascript – Less – MySQL – PHPStorm – GitHub – Jira

Senior Software Engineer

SOCi, Inc.

SOCi provides a cross-social-network platform where business owners can connect social pages and manage all in one place. From posts to reviews through conversations, engagements, and sentiment analysis, our product provides an easy-to-use SaaS that relieves the burden of multiple networks content management and helps improve business-to-client partnership.

From the technical perspective, I work in a mob made of three senior developers. We clear out bug tickets when time permits and focus mainly on building new features that add value. We discuss specs, create subtasks, make estimates, take decisions on the implementation taking into consideration delivery time, code complexity, and reliability.

Less frequently, we do some refactoring and work on improving the existing architecture to deliver more efficient and scalable code.

Working as a mob helps sharing thoughts and reduces the risk of misconception and bugs, in addition to reducing the overload of pre/post deployment testing.

We use Jira to track tickets and progress of new features as a group of vertical slices, and GitHub as principal VCS and collaboration tool.

Visit https://www.meetsoci.com/ for additional information.

Tools: PHP – GraphQL – Backbone.js – Javascript – Less – MySQL – PHPStorm – PHPUnit – GitHub – Jira – Docker – Sonar – LogDNA – API

Senior Full Stack Developer

Tunisian Air Force (TAF) 

Started as a junior Software Developer, contributed to achieving local applications using ArcGIS, Visual Basic, Java, and Avenue: Flight Navigation Log, Route Selection (length, clearance), Fuel/Bearing Calculation, ICAO Weather API communication, Alerts Broadcasting – ATAM/ANAM, Aerial Warfare Strategic Simulation.

Part of my duties was to ensure applying best code practices and security principles (prevent SQL injection, Replay, Password Hashing, Data Encryption at rest, etc.) as well as testing.

By the meantime, I had the opportunity to work with a cross-functional team of engineers and designers to implement a prototype of flight simulator and other military related training emulators.

Starting from 2009, worked with a team on migrating existing applications to Web and SaaS applications using LAMP and .NET stacks (2013).

In 2010, I started leading a team that includes product managers, graphic designers, and software engineers, in charge of developing new applications. This resulted in having to lead meetings with our internal stakeholders and discuss business goals and budgeting. In addition, I was periodically reporting achievements and progress to our chain of command.

In the last two years (2016-2018), while still working as a Full Stack Developer, I had the chance to run Data Analysis and apply Machine Learning algorithms on data extracted from a Computer Vision process allowing Facial Identification (Python, Haar-Cascade, R, H2O, Distributed Random Forest, OpenCV).

Tools: PHP – Oracle – Java – VB – Forms Developer – ArcGIS – Avenue – JavaScript – R – Python – H2O – OpenCV – Artificial Intelligence – Data Science – API – MySQL

About Me:

I am a software engineer and entrepreneur originally from Tunisia, now based in California. With a diverse background that spans 18 years of service in the air force, working in startups and large corporations, and exposure to industries such as digital marketing, online reputation management, insurance, and banking, I bring a unique blend of skills and experiences to the table.

After relocating to California five years ago, I embarked on a journey to establish myself as a software engineer and make a meaningful impact in the tech industry. Over the years, I have honed my expertise in software development, leveraging my strong analytical and problem-solving skills to deliver innovative solutions.

In 2020, I took a leap of faith and founded my own company called Zembra. As the proud owner of Zembra, I have overseen the development and growth of our SaaS product, which specializes in monitoring online reviews and conducting social listening. It brings me immense joy to see how Zembra has evolved and the positive impact it has had on businesses, enabling them to proactively manage their online reputation and build stronger relationships with their customers.

Beyond my professional achievements, I find immense fulfillment in my personal life. I am a happy husband and a delighted father, cherishing the love and support of my family. As a patriot and a fidel believer, I am committed to contributing to the growth and prosperity of the communities I serve.

I am driven by a passion for continuous learning and growth, always seeking new challenges and opportunities to push the boundaries of what is possible. I am excited about the future and the potential to achieve even greater things through my company, Zembra, and the impact it can have on businesses worldwide.

Let's connect and explore how we can collaborate and create meaningful change together.

Khoubeib Bouthour

HeyVail

Co-founder of the AI revenue partner that you always wish you had. :D

Co-Founder

Meetball

GTM Marketing advisory. Occasional spotlighting as Head T-Shirt Boy.

Marketing & GTM Advisor

SwipeSwipe

Advisor on marketing, GTM, positioning, and copy for a Founder Institute graduate startup

Advisor

CrowdTamers

Crowdtamers grows startups from $0 to $2MM+ ARR. As founder & CEO of CrowdTamers, I've taken 12 startups to $2MM+ ARR, each in under 18 months. We've launched 50+ startups, mentored more than 200, and taught branding, positioning, and growth to nearly a thousand through organizations like Founder Institute, StartupHub, and more.

Founder & CEO

MantaBond

Part of the cofounding group that is the super group of founders known as MantaBond. Scaling is hard. Get a suite of C-level execs to help.

Ended this role with merging MantaBond into Crowdtamers to make CrowdTamers Automation and CrowdTamers Content Engine teams.

Chief Mustache Officer

Indivity

Co-founder of Indivity.io, a solution that integrates data about people across software.

Co-founder & CEO

Unito - Unite your tools & work better. Together!

Evangelist, enthusiast, and encourager. Marketing, customer success, & revenue visionary. Chief Mustache Officer. Key accomplishments:

• First non-tech hire; led business recruiting efforts to grow team to 8 in 10 months.
• Built and ran CSM team from scratch, achieving CSAT of 95% average over 9 months & NPS 33
• Created entire pricing & revenue funnel from scratch, growing to $90,000 MRR in 18 months
• Drove business sector of company to help attract & land seed round of $2MM

BeeTrip.io

Co-founded BeeTrip, a better way to manage business travel expenses. Recruited and hired team up to 8, self-funded development with other co-founders, created first full UX & UI, led creation of MVP, found first 5 customers, and led drive to fundraise. Sadly, ran out of money & time and had to close shop before getting enough traction to get seed investment.

Kontakt.io, Inc.

While serving as the Head of Marketing for Kontakt.io's huge growth year of 2015, I was also asked to serve as interim head of product to help solve problems with the team's ability to ship new products; they'd launched the Cloud Beacon and the Tough Beacon in 2015 and had not had another key product launch since. Taking over in July 2015, I served as Head of Product alongside being Head of Marketing until, in December 2015, I concentrated solely on the Product role.

Key achievements:
* Increased key launch velocity over 600%, launching a key product every month in January - June 2016
* Built 1 and 2 year product roadmaps and achieved 80% win rate on hitting target release dates.
* Created cross-functional scrum teams that aligned the whole company (engineering, software, marketing, and sales) around product and gave the entire company complete knowledge of our roadmap.

Head of Product

I joined Kontakt.io in a newly-created role of Head of Marketing, and built up the marketing team there from scratch to a group of 7 high-achievers. While I was Head of Marketing, the marketing team was instrumental in: seeing the company through a landmark year of growth, securing a series B round of funding, and establishing a strong company brand and story.

Key achievements in 2015:
* Grew lead captures from 100 a month to over 1,000 a month through content marketing and SEO
* Launched 9 events in 7 cities in 6 months, driving 20% of the company's volume of units sold in 2015 for under $75,000 in event marketing budget.
* Oversaw growth of company sales volume to #1 in the market, an achievement that ABI Research noted and found a "surprising" achievement, with 500,000 units sold in 2015.

Head of Marketing & PR

GOG.com

I joined GOG.com when in the newly-created head of Marketing & PR role when it was a scrappy startup and I was the 16th employee. When I left, they had over 70 employees, were #1 in the classic gaming market segment with over 75% of the market, and had increased revenues over 1,000% from 2010 to 2014. 

Key achievements:
* Grew user base from 250,000 to over 4 million in 4 years; MAUs from 1,000 to over 10,000.
* Organized award-winning tradeshow at PAX; also organized profitable events at E3, Gamescom, GDC and others.
* Front page of Reddit 9 times; front page placement in key trade media at least once a quarter; organic site traffic from social and press sources increased 430% in 4 years. 
* Successfully repositioned brand from niche classic games distributor to leading independent games distributor with ~50% market share on indie games.
* Created high-achieving marketing & PR team of 11 from scratch & had 90%+ employee retention from 2010 - 2014.

Head of PR & Marketing

I build million-dollar marketing engines. 15x from $0 to $3MM+ ARR so far. Founder @CrowdTamers

I launch 🚀 startups. 15x from $0 to $2MM+ ARR so far, founder @CrowdTamers. CrowdTamer, leader, and growth content marketing thinker.  FI Mentor since 2017; my mission is to help 1,000 founders make >$1MM in annual revenue.

Check out my blog at http://crowdtamers.com/blog to read about how. ;)

Key achievements:
* Oversaw growth of 15 companies to grow them from $0 to $3MM+ in annual revenue
* Built 12 high-achieving international teams of marketers from scratch at different companies
* Generated more than $50MM in revenue for companies I've lead marketing & revenue at

Specialties: senior management, management, product portfolio management, public speaking, PR, online marketing, marketing planning, team leadership, writing, and video games.

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