Ahmed Elbassel

Automotive cybersecurity startup. ThreatZ is a CSMS platform securing connected vehicles from design to road — TARA, SBOM, security testing and compliance evidence on a knowledge-graph architecture, aligned to ISO/SAE 21434 and UNECE R155.

Architect / Tech Lead — VXlabs

Wearing multiple hats at an early-stage startup — spanning hands-on engineering, architecture, and people leadership.

- Architect and build scalable microservices on Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Neo4j, deployed on Kubernetes and AWS
- Lead technical direction end-to-end: system design, code reviews, and setting engineering standards across the team
- Ow

Designed the technical architecture for new features, aligning solutions to business requirements and long-term scalability for a national regulator.

Software Architect — Squadio (TDRA - Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority)

Led architecture for new features while documenting and modernizing legacy systems on the TDRA engagement.

- Designed the technical architecture for new features, aligning solutions with business requirements and long-term scalability
- Documented the architecture of existing legacy systems, cr

Team Lead — GoalnGo

Led the engineering team, reporting directly to the CTO. Owned technical direction, delivery, and team growth as the company scaled.

- Managed and mentored a team of developers, conducting 1:1s, code reviews, and performance evaluations
- Partnered with the CTO on technical strategy, roadmap planning, and hiring to scale the team
- Broke down product initiatives into ticket

Collaborate across engineering teams to upscale unit testing for new supplier integrations using Jest, Nock, Polly.js, and AWS SDK Client mock, as well as engage in architecture and security improvements with the micro-services team through TypeScript code refactoring and fixes for Node package vulnerabilities.

Collaborate across engineering teams to upscale unit testing for new supplier integrat

Develop and ship products for Andela client companies on a contractor basis by working closely with their software engineering teams

Collaborated with the Maven software engineering teams to ship features for a trucking and logistics solution that runs on a micro-services architecture.

Created tech designs and implemented the backend in NodeJs to interact with other microservices. Leveraged tools and technologies such as draw.io, Confluence, RabbitMQ, Javascript (ES6), MySQL, Docker, and Chai/Sinon.js.


Skills: · Node.js · U

Worked on the Zumrafood legacy system and the migration from an old legacy WooCommerce system to an in-house ECommerce system.
I worked as a back-end team lead, the responsibilities:
- Improve the performance of the legacy system by providing out-of-the-box solutions
- Design and implement the business stories.
- We started by building a monolithic application and then started by breaking down any

I worked for Bites.com as a team lead of the backend team, my main responsibilities are:
- Mentor team members.
- Report to the head of software about the projects' statuses.
- Design solutions and make them modularized to make the modules be built in parallel to maximize the power of the team to develop fast and in a clean way.
- Keep the team homogeneous and hungry for the work and learning new

Worked as a Backend developer, maintain existing systems.
Technologies: Nodejs, Loopback, Meteor

Maintained and extended existing backend systems.

Five and a half years delivering backend systems for enterprise and government clients across the Middle East, and for IBM's global internal platforms.

Worked as a Java Instructor, courses: Java, JSP, Servlet, Hibernate, JSF, and Liferay.

Develop J2EE Applications using JSF2, hibernate, JSP, Struts.
Liferay Portal developer

Design and Develop J2EE Applications using JSF2, JSP, Servlet, and Apache Solr.

Internship at netsignature as ktp (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) with ITI (Information Technology Institute) .

Issued May 2020

Diploma of Software Engineering in ITI "Information Technology Institute" – JAVA
department.

Issued Feb 2020

Issued Aug 2011