Carta

Leading the platform engineering organization's efforts to:
- increase visibility into our cloud infrastructure cost & usage (AWS, Kubernetes, etc)
- optimize resource allocation & increase efficiency
- equip & educate eng teams with the proper tools & knowledge to perform their own optimization efforts

Senior Software Engineer II

Zendesk

As part of the Sunshine Conversation Scale team: 

- Participated in the software development life-cycle for core services solutions (e.g: SQS service for delayed messaging/job execution) that ensure the scalability, reliability and maintainability of the Sunshine Conversations platform
- Maintained and improved the reliability, scalability of our cloud infrastructure and systems (Kubernetes, Datadog APM/Logs/Monitoring, AWS via Terraform, Atlas MongoDB, Okta integrations, Github Actions CI/CD)

As part of the Sunshine Conversations Partitions team. 

Our mandate was to scale up the Sunshine Conversations platform from 2 to N regions to adhere to Zendesk's availability & scalability standards as the platform becomes more and more central to Zendesk's operations

Sunshine Conversations Tech stack:

Nodejs/Typescript, Python, MongoDB, PostgreSQL/MySQL Aurora, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS

Staff Developer

Ludia

- Design & lead the development of Ludia's new events ingestion pipeline. Powered by Kafka, Kubernetes and built with CI/CD in mind, it will replace our AWS Kinesis+Lambda pipeline
- Transition from an ETL to ELT mindset, and our data warehouse from a Hadoop eco-system to more modern alternatives such as cloud-hosted Snowflake
- Manage and maintain Extract & Load pipelines (Fivetran, Snowpipes, etc..)
- Provide support for the analytics team at Ludia in terms of engineering and lead technical initiatives (such as data modelling pipelines with dbt)

Senior Software Developer, Data/BI

SSENSE

- Assist the product team, by providing the technical POV, to prioritize and define our roadmap for the Online Shopping Experience at SSENSE.com (Conversion squad)
- Design technical solutions and lead the development process through agile methodologies in order to achieve said roadmap, with emphasis on quality, rapid prototyping, and data-driven feedback loop
- Manage releases for the services and product real estate owned by the squad, in collaboration with other squads
- Influence technical decisions and development standards at SSENSE by collaborating with other technical leads, senior developers and architecture committee 
- Provide coaching and mentorship to junior developers within the squad, but also at the organization level through workshops and presentations ("SSENSE University")

Technical Lead

- Participated in the migration of our monolith PHP e-commerce platform to an event-based (AWS SNS/SQS) microservices (node.js) docker-cloud (kubernetes) architecture.

- Designed, developed and deployed the company's first implementation of Elasticsearch for our product catalog search service (Node.js Typescript API with Elasticsearch under the hood)

- Currently leading the Conversion squad as part of our new product organization

- Go-to person for everything Elasticsearch at SSENSE

Senior Software Developer

Design, develop and maintain code for customer-facing applications (ssense.com) as well as in-house back-office applications using a mixture of technologies:

Old stack: PHP (silex framework and custom), MySQL, Javascript (Jquery/Backbone)
New stack: Microservices architecture, Node.js (Restify, React/Vue.js), ElasticSearch, Docker

Web Developer

Freelance Web Developer

Develop entire or components for web applications for different clients, as well as take on minor modifications on certain projects.

Freelancer profile available here: pph.me/gcsabbagh

Nabbesh

Was responsible for developing and maintaining all back-end infrastructure (Django, PostgresSQL, ElasticSearch) and business code for nabbesh.com, as well as doing front-end development when needed (Javascript).

Back-end Engineer

Giraphic Consulting

Software developer that started in this business working freelance, that enabled me to gain full-stack experience quite fast and developed my business acumen by dealing directly with clients; later this helped me bridge the gap between stakeholders/product managers and engineers.

Always curious about new technologies, I am especially interested in search/analytics related projects, distributed computing systems and optimization at scale.

My favorite tech these days: Node.js/Typescript, Docker/Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Snowflake and dbt

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