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Hiba Eldursi

@hibaeldursi

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Lead software engineer and tech lead driving frontend and backend product delivery.

Zimbabwe

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior engineering role leading cross-functional teams to deliver customer-facing products, with mentorship, technical ownership, and inclusive culture.

I am a highly motivated Tech Lead with 8+ years of experience across the full software development lifecycle, skilled in both frontend and backend development.

I lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact commerce projects, including a Microfrontend checkout rebuild and a gift-card payment integration that contributed over £10 million in incremental revenue.

I champion engineering best practices—TDD, CI/CD, testing frameworks—and mentor engineers through regular 1:1s, knowledge sharings, and upskilling sessions while fostering inclusive team culture.

I am committed to continuous learning (MSc Computer Science, University of Bath) and active in women-in-tech initiatives, public speaking, and teaching to support aspiring developers.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Tech Lead

Current

Dunelm

Oct 2023 - Present (2 years)

Leading a team of 10 engineers and SDETs to deliver checkout and payments projects, architected a microfrontend checkout rebuild and introduced processes that improved team delivery and morale; contributed to a new gift‑card payment method generating over £10 million incremental revenue.

TypeScript React GraphQL AWS Team Leadership CI CD

Lead Software Engineer

ENSEK

Jun 2022 - Oct 2023 (1 year 4 months)

Led a team of five to migrate a legacy AngularJS site to React, established architecture and a monorepo with a shared UI component library and test framework, and provisioned AWS infrastructure with automated CI/CD via Azure DevOps.

React JavaScript AWS Azure DevOps Component Libraries Mentoring CI CD

Senior Software Developer

Next plc

Jul 2020 - Jun 2022 (1 year 11 months)

Contributed to Next website modernization by building .NET Core REST APIs, React microfrontends and Azure deployments; mentored developers and reduced technical debt to improve performance and delivery.

.NET Core C++React Azure Microservices REST APIs Performance Optimization Mentorship

Software Developer

Next plc

Aug 2018 - Jul 2020 (1 year 11 months)

Developed internal stock and pricing systems, integrated Feefo reviews and enabled international sales; optimized a critical T‑SQL stored procedure reducing nightly update time from over eight hours to two.

T SQL SQL C++Integration Performance Tuning Backend Development

Trainee Software Developer

Next plc

Feb 2017 - Aug 2018 (1 year 6 months)

Supported development and support activities for Next Help pages and international pricing/sale functionality, collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver milestones.

C++ASP.NET Support Requirements Gathering Web Development Collaboration Testing Maintenance

Computer Science Teacher

Al Aqsa Secondary School

Oct 2016 - Feb 2017 (4 months)

Taught secondary students programming and web fundamentals using Python, HTML and CSS, designed lesson plans and assessments, and mentored students to build confidence and interest in tech careers.