# Shadi Naif Shadi Naif is a remote worker on Himalayas, Staff Software Engineer at Zeitlabs, based in Jordan. Source: https://himalayas.app/@shadinaif ```text Engineering leader at Zeitlabs who architected an Open edX payment framework now processing payments for thousands of learners. ``` | Detail | Value | | --- | --- | | Availability | Looking for a job | | Location | Jordan | | Authorized to work in | Jordan | | Salary expectations | 86k+ USD | | Job categories | Software Engineer, Fractional CTO, Backend Engineer | | Skills | Software Architecture, Engineering Team Leadership, Python, Django, OpenEdx, Payment Gateway Integration, LMS, Course Authoring, Django REST Framework, SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Redis, Celery | | Website | https://shadinaif.com | | LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/shadinaif | | GitHub | https://github.com/shadinaif | ## About ```text At Zeitlabs, I architected a pluggable payment-gateway framework for Open edX and wrote the largest share of its code. Its first gateway processes payments for thousands of users on Saudi Arabia's national e-learning platform, and v1.0 is open source. As fractional CTO at Tajah (eduArabia), I hired and onboarded nine engineers and led a 12-person remote team building a university learning platform from scratch. It included an LMS and authoring tool, and now serves thousands of learners; I also bring AI-assisted engineering with guardrails to production teams. ``` ## Experience ### Staff Software Engineer (current) Zeitlabs. Feb 2023 - Present ```text 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. ``` Skills: OpenEdx, Python, Django, Payment-Gateway-Integration, LLM, AI-Assisted-Engineering, MCP-Servers, i18n, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub-Actions ### Open edX Technical Lead Correlation One. Aug 2023 - Mar 2024 ```text 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. ``` Skills: OpenEdx, Edx, Docker, Tutor, API-Development, Python, Django ### LMS Specialist Appsembler. Jan 2022 - Jan 2023 ```text 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. ``` Skills: OpenEdx, Django, Multi-tenancy, SaaS, Customer-Support ### Fractional CTO Tajah (eduArabia). Feb 2021 - Apr 2022 ```text 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. ``` Skills: Architecture, Team-Leadership, Hiring, LMS, SCORM, Zoom-API-Integration, Project-Management, Django ### Senior Software Engineer Edraak. Mar 2019 - Mar 2021 ```text 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. ``` Skills: OpenEdx, Authentication, Python, Django, Code.Org ### Senior Backend Engineer FabricShift (formerly In Diverse). Jul 2019 - Feb 2020 ```text Turned a statistical maturity model into a production Django backend, including data models, APIs, index calculations and reporting. ``` Skills: Django, Python, REST-APIs, Data-Modeling, Reporting ### Senior Software Engineer Independent Contractor. Jul 2018 - Mar 2019 ```text Made first upstream contributions to edx-platform, including Python 3 compatibility upgrades and notification emails moved to the edX ACE messaging framework. ``` Skills: OpenEdx, Python-3, Django, ACE-Messaging ### System Analyst OrienTech Software Solutions. Jun 2013 - Jul 2018 ```text 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. ``` Skills: ERP, SQL-Server, Stored-Procedures, Team-Leadership, CRM, Python, Django ### Chief of IT Department Faouri Group. Nov 2010 - May 2013 ```text 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. ``` Skills: IT-Management, Budgeting, Backup-Automation, Reporting, Team-Leadership ## Education ### Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences M.Sc., Computer Information Systems. Grade: Excellent ```text M.Sc. in Computer Information Systems with grade Excellent. ``` ### Philadelphia University B.Sc., Computer Science ```text B.Sc. in Computer Science. ``` ## Tech stack - GitHub - Kubernetes - GitHub Actions - MySQL - PostgreSQL - Sentry - Django - Next.js - Slack - Redis - React - Python - Celery - Django REST framework - Grafana - Linux - Ansible - TypeScript - Docker - Zoom - SQL - Claude Code - AWS To contact Shadi, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire). ## People also viewed - [Hisham Muteb](https://himalayas.app/@hishammuteb): Senior Software Engineer, SALA - [yousef hanbali](https://himalayas.app/@yousefhanbali): Software Engineer, Intuned - [Ahmad Masoum](https://himalayas.app/@ahmadmasoum): Senior Software Engineer, Riyadah - [Yousef Diab](https://himalayas.app/@yousefdiab): Senior Software Engineer, Xocialive - [osama riyad](https://himalayas.app/@osamariyad): Odoo Software Engineer, Leading Point Software - [Yousef Alkhrissat](https://himalayas.app/@yousefalkhrissat): Senior Software Engineer, Merit Incentives - [Ibrahim Ali](https://himalayas.app/@ibrahimali8): Mid Senior Software Engineer, Classera - [ashrf Mathkour](https://himalayas.app/@ashrfmathkour): Full Stack Web Developer, Eon Dental - [Fady Naffa](https://himalayas.app/@fadynaffa): Senior Software Engineer, Toptal - [Rami Airout](https://himalayas.app/@ramiairout): Fractional Chief Technology Officer, Synevos