Ahmad Ayash

- Revamped infrastructure CI/CD and gitops pipelines to ensure a higher stability of systems

- Introduced SLOs for engineering teams to monitor for any long-term effects on key SLIs.

- Introduced a new release process that syncs different functions and has manual and automated guardrails against foreseeable issues.

- Introduced playbooks and guides to ease and formalize incident management

- Increased the efficiency of monitoring and reporting of services.

- Reduced the cost of hosting by 10%

• Set budgets for engineering tasks, tailoring financial limitations to business goals and optimizing return on investment (ROI) for completed deliverables.
• Managed resource allocation and utilization for entire Engineering department.
• Took ownership of assigned department-wide projects, presenting regular updates to senior leadership on progress and status.
• Led proposal development efforts, presenting engineering opportunities to senior leadership for go-no-go decisions.

• Fostered positive and performance-oriented environment by implementing successful reward systems.
• Developed proposals for refactoring outlining project scope and timeline.
• Evaluated project requirements to identify and mitigate risks.
• Constructed documentation process to meet requirements and vision.

Amazon Payment Services

• Reviewed and revised technical design direction for DevOps projects, prioritizing senior leadership's business goals.
• Onboarded on best practices and the management style of Amazon

• Identified and solved issues with production, workforce and material sourcing to drive business objectives.
• Spearheaded cross-functional initiatives across departments to achieve business goals for bottom-line profits.
• Evaluated product development strategies and prepared alternative approaches to exceed goals.
• Increased workflow by analyzing data and maximizing opportunities for improved productivity across several areas.
• Led operational team in creation, roll out and management of new product features.
• Established performance goals for department and provided methods for reaching milestones.

Leading a great team in the engineering efforts responsible for automating, managing and expanding the SEM channels on Google AdWords et al.

• Managing efforts towards a common goal is always a rewarding activity, doubly so when we see increases in conversion rates.
• Reviewed project goals and objectives on monthly basis with project manager and design team.
• Verified construction documentation conformed to quality assurance standards and client requirements.

• Connect people and technology across many ABB business units. Facilitate the onboarding, understanding and maintaining major parts of ABB Ability.
• Such a dynamic role requires one to work closely with various tools and languages (C++ Embedded SDKs, WebSockets, JS, Azure IoT Edge/Hub, .Net SDKs, QA pipelines, Docker, .Net Core, etc.)
• Facilitate communication between various levels of operation and help manage projects for in-house development.
• Produce documentation and conduct training for different topics in ABB Ability platform tailored to the target audience across different roles and technologies.

Our SDK spans different technologies (Game engine, web servlets, iOS, Android, j2objc, JNI) and languages (Java, C++, Objective-C/C++) my role include:

• Solve novel problems concerning routing, navigation, and rendering of map tiles.
• Own the legacy code-base and adapting it to new requirements.
• Produce and maintain the required procedures and documentation to establish and then enhance release cycles and lower regressions.
• Maintain a quality level measured by Tiobe reports.
• Implement and Maintain the backend AWS infrastructure upkeep and scalability.
• Implement solutions for automated continuous delivery.
• Maintain transparent communication with our international team.
• Generate iOS Frameworks, and static libraries from Objective-C/Objective-C++/C++ projects.
• Build and maintain JNI bridges between Java and C++ classes.
• Introduce unit testing framework to C++ legacy code.

Responsibilities vary depending on the business needs and the existing systems’ constraints, Daily tasks involved:

• Working with technologies such as: Zend PHP, AngularJS, Phalcon, Salesforce, Kafka, ActiveMQ.
• Managing two teams’ daily operations with agile boards on JIRA. And conduct code review sessions for their tasks.
• Designing solutions and run them by the architects’ board. And carry on with the implementation.

• Manage software operations and engineers.
• Design and build RESTful API services with open source stack observing SOA and TDD.
• Build and maintain the iOS client.
• Design and implement robust, stable, and scalable cloud architectures.
• Maintain and handle legacy systems requirements and limitations and work around them.
• Plan and execute features and component migration with regards to resources and time allocation.

Research and Develop in the following areas:

• Heart's Beats per Minute measurement via a smartphone camera.
• VoIP and its integration with a provider network.
• Motion detection, calculating distance and speed of the holder using various models, works on phones with only basic sensors ( no M7 chips needed, but incorporates it if found ).

• Sitecore projects development and support.
• iPhone application design and development.
• Ruby on Rails development, testing, and deployment.

A series of iPad/iPhone educational games aimed at helping children learn Numbers, Colors, The Arabic Alphabet and animal names and sounds.

- iPad/iPhone native development

- Unity3D

• Work on several outsourcing ASP.NET outsourcing projects
• Conduct .NET 4 training in different countries

• Revised, modularized and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs and improving functionality.
• Install the software on call centers with varying infrastructures ( Cisco, Avaya, etc.)
• Write modules to enable the software to work with radio-based communication in C++.
• Write needed libraries and modify the business components to fix bugs ( C#.net, VB6)

Worked on a 3D space shooter game with strategy screens. Built with Trinity's Vision Engine. A C++ based engine that ports to PC, Xbox, and Playstation.

• Implement game logic through plugins to the engine.
• Port the existing codebase to Xbox 360.
• Work on managing the executable and integration with flash based screens