Shadi Naif

Advised the founder on architecture, hiring and project costing as the company grew and became an official Open edX partner. Architected a pluggable payment-gateway framework for Open edX, wrote the largest share of its code, and built the backend of an LLM-powered exam-question generator.

Led and trained the Open edX engineering team in a build-versus-buy evaluation. Built edx-platform extensions with new APIs and runtime patches, and created a one-command Docker and Tutor development environment.

Created tahoe-sites, moving the multi-tenancy layer out of the company's edx-platform fork into a standalone Django app. Developed platform features, patches and release upgrades, and resolved tier-2 and tier-3 customer issues.

Hired and onboarded 9 engineers and led a 12-person remote team across five countries. Architected a learning platform for Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University from scratch, including LMS and authoring tool, now serving thousands of learners.

Built authentication between Edraak's Open edX platform and its Code.org-based coding platform. Helped upgrade to the Hawthorn release and delivered fixes and customisations.

Turned a statistical maturity model into a production Django backend, including data models, APIs, index calculations and reporting.

Made first upstream contributions to edx-platform, including Python 3 compatibility upgrades and notification emails moved to the edX ACE messaging framework.

Led a 3-person team developing AutoLink, an ERP used by 6 car-importer companies. Moved the parts re-order report's nine-step calculation into set-based SQL Server stored procedures, reducing generation time from 3-4 hours to 4-5 seconds.

Owned the IT budget, a team of 3 and 60 users. Automated backups with off-site sync, per-user internet-usage reporting and print logging until operations ran on scheduled reports.

Grade: Excellent

M.Sc. in Computer Information Systems with grade Excellent.

B.Sc. in Computer Science.