Belal Haikal

Engaged via agap2 Netherlands as an embedded Engineering Manager at bol, the Benelux's largest e-commerce platform.

• Leading two engineering teams (13 engineers) owning Marketing and Advertising products that serve millions of daily users across the Netherlands and Belgium.
• Driving the AI transformation agenda by delivering hands-on AI engineering training and embedding AI-assisted workflows i

Worked as Founder at Echo3s.

• Scaled and led four cross-functional engineering teams (20 engineers) delivering digital growth products for 75+ countries and millions of customers.
• Spearheaded AI integration into engineering workflows, materially boosting developer productivity and accelerating the product innovation roadmap.
• Partnered with senior leadership to unify UX/UI standards across web and mobile, increasing user

• Built and led platform and security teams (9 engineers) from team formation through delivery at a global leader in confidential computing.
• Introduced confidential computing on NVIDIA H100 GPUs, a first for the company, enabling secure ML workloads in regulated environments.
• Achieved up to 200x performance improvement in secure ML workloads through architectural optimisation and hardware-acce

• Led subscription and account teams (13 engineers), delivering tiered subscription products and Pay-Per-View that drove multi-million-euro revenue growth.
• Oversaw the NFL Season migration: designed the infrastructure scale-up strategy and onboarded millions of new users with zero downtime.
• Established a delivery-driven culture through mentorship, team KPIs and executive alignment, reducing es

• Led the Pay-Per-View product from business case through technical design to production launch; it is now a core revenue stream.
• Migrated critical subscription services to AWS Lambda, reducing infrastructure cost and improving performance under peak load.
• Co-created DAZN's engineering mentorship programme and ran the backend engineering guild, improving retention and skill growth.

Stack: Nod

• Consolidated fragmented video infrastructure across brands into a unified platform, improving reliability and cutting operational overhead.
• Re-architected cloud infrastructure, achieving significant AWS cost reduction without sacrificing performance or availability.
• Implemented automated testing frameworks and internal tooling for customer service operations, improving team efficiency.

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Worked as Development Team Lead at iflix.

Worked as Senior Software Engineer at iflix.

→ Built and maintained iflix live streaming solution based on AWS Elemental (Media
Live)
→ Built and maintained iflix live streaming solution based on nginx server
→ Regularly coming up with quick POC for new business ideas
→ Frequently working with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
→ Built WOWZA server for live streaming
→ Worked on cloud ingest system that helps content engineer to upload, edit, render

 Planning, designing and implementing an open source framework called Nutshell2 using HHVM Hack programming language
 Planning, designing and implementing an open source Content Management System (CMS) called NutsNBolts2 using Nutshell2 framework
 Working closely with the clients in gathering and implementing requirements
 Building crap.tv website and parts of its Android application
 Buildi

 Scrum team member, worked under a new platform – Exact Platform
 Developed the Professional Services Administration system
 Executed the expectations of the Product Owner

 Managed data migration for varied structured databases
 Mongo DB administrator
 Built web service using ASP.net
 Developed and maintained Tranglo 2.0 back-end using ASP.net
 Managed integration between Tranglo 2.0 and banking web services (BSM, Ebays, etc.)

Worked on multiple platforms as programmer and web designer:
 JavaScript projects
 PhP projects
 Open source projects
 Content management system

Gained valuable technical experience and developed personal effectiveness within a corporate environment, along with an understanding of the company’s core business activities. Responsibilities include:
 Managed a team of 3 to explore two different Oracle databases for information using ASP.net – C# programming language.
 Used Survey Tool, an open source application, to collect employee informat

This course help to improve the student's requirement gathering, quality assurance, system architecture and design

Earned a Bachelor of Arts in Software Engineering, building a strong foundation in software development principles and practices.