Hello, I'm

Diaa Kasem

Senior Software Engineer

About Me

I have recentry joined the SOCi team. After spending more than two years and a half with Muso.ai team, as a Senior Sotware Engineer, Solutions Architect and for a while a Team Lead.

Some of the technologies, languages and frameworks I have personally used are : Bash, Javascript, Nodejs, Angular, D3.js, Socket.io, JQuery, Lodash and many others. Ofcourse HTML5, CSS3, Lesscss, Sass, Bootstrap, flexbox, React, Angular and several other front-end technologies to provide the best user experience, Python, Django, Flask. Celery, Postgresql, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS Neptune, ReactNative.

Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Firebase, Hiroku, Seneca and AWS Lambda.

Personal Information

Address: Cairo
Egypt
Email: me AT diaa.me
Upwork Profile: https://www.upwork.com/

Education

from 2003 to 2007

University of Ain-Shams University

Cairo

Major Degree of Computers and Information Sciences

This is where I ended up a computer geek .. wooohooo

Employment

I have been a Software Engineer for 15 years.

Below is a list of the positions I filled along the way.

from 2022 to Infinity and Beyond

SOCi

Senior Software Engineer

Working with a great team to build a great product to help local businesses grow.

The project was built on top of:

Docker, MySQL, PHP, AWS (RDS, ECR, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Elasticach/Redis), Nodejs, GoLang.

Project Website

from 2019 to 2022

Muso.ai

Tech Lead

Leading a great team to help building a leading music credits platform.

The project was built on top of:

Docker, Postgresql, Gremlin, AWS (Neptune, ECR, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Elasticach/Redis), Vue.js, Nodejs.

Project Website

from 2017 to 2019

Qarii

CEO and Founder of Qarii Software Company

We have created multiple failing projects, where I have learned a lot about the business side. Like Was Missing, The OKR and MarketMSR and other smaller projects like Filterlike, QPinger and Desaigns.

Project Website

from 2016 to 2018

Tqweem

Tqweem Head Of Engineers

Leading a great team to help building an outstanding E-learning application focusing on pin pointing the difficulties a student faces while studying and helping him/her improve and be able to understand and succeed.

The project was initially structured using:

Docker, InfluxDB, Jenkins. Angularjs, Nodejs, Django, Tastypie, requirejs and jasmine. Bootstrap3, CSS3, Less CSS and HTML5.

Project Website

from 2014 to 2016

Elproff - Academy 77

Elproff Technical Team Leader

Got the chance to lead a great team to help building an outstanding E-learning application focusing on pin pointing the difficulties a student faces while studying and helping him/her improve and be able to understand and succeed.

The project was initially structured using:

Angularjs, Nodejs, Django, Tastypie, requirejs and jasmine. Bootstrap3, CSS3, Less CSS and HTML5.

Now its known as Tqweem

from 2013 to 2014

Upwork - Freelancer

Web Solutions Developer

I am excellent at the following:

Javascript, Angularjs, Nodejs, D3js, expressjs, sailsjs, coffeescript, requirejs, socket.io, and jasmine. Python flask, mongodb, rethinkdb and parse.com(ParseAPI). Bootstrap3, CSS3, Less CSS, HTML5 and PUG templates.

I have been using angularjs, d3js and python for the past two years and developing web solutions for seven years.

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from 2012 to 2013

CodeScalers

Solutions Developer

With a great team developing a cloud computing management solution. I was specialized in front-end technologies (Javascript, AngularJS, D3JS, Lodash, JQuery, JQuery Templates, Lesscss, Coffeescript, Jasmine, Karma).

Company website

from 2010 to 2012

Integrant Inc.

Software Engineer

Along with a nice team developing a CRM software for an adverticing agency using GWT, GXT, Spring, Hibernate, Quartz, Apache CXF Web Services and JMS Technologies using OpenMQ.

Company website

from 2009 to 2010

iCraft

JBoss Administrator

Outsourced to RAYA Software and Bull companies as JBoss(AS) Consultant/Administrator in a project for the Egyptian Taxes Authority. I was in charge of tuning the JBoss AS performance, creating the JBoss Clusters and the Apache Load Balancer.

from 2008 to 2010

XTEND

Software Engineer

Developing a communication software that enables users to control/communicate with their facebook accounts through SMS. The project included different languages (Groovy, Java and PHP) and technologies (Yahoo pipes, FB APIs, Google Reader Java APIs, JSON, XML, Java Reflections and RMI )

from 2007 to 2007

Arabsoftware.net

PHP Developer

I worked as A PHP Freelancer.

What I Do

Deep inside I'm a software engineer, I love to think and know how things work and improve.
And this is what I use

NodeJS

I have been using NodeJS for 10 years.

AngularJS

I have used angularjs for more than 4 years

D3JS

I have been using D3JS visualization library to create out standing visualizations.

MongoDB

I have been using mongodb for storing data in almost all my NodeJS projects

GitHub

I use Github and Git protocol to manage my projects.

SailsJS

I have used SailsJS with RethinkDB and other technologies.

VIM

I love vim, its an editor, but its the best.

Docker

Docker is one of a kind. It showed me how to apply the old SOA ( Now microservice ) in a great and easy way.

AWS Lambda

There is nothing better than code, test, deploy, test, and ship. With no DevOps involved. I love it.

Skills

I am excellent at the following
Javascript, Angularjs, Nodejs, D3js, expressjs, sailsjs, coffeescript,

List of Skills

Web Technologies: JavaScript Socket.io Jasmine D3JS React Vue Next.js
Programming: Python Rust Node.js PHP MongoDB MySQL Postgresql Neptune Gremlin Redis
Tools & Utilities: NeoVIM Shell Scripting Ansible Jenkins Terraform AWS CLI Yeoman Git Webpack Lesscss SCSS