Ahmed Talaat

• Acting as the CTO
• Oversaw the development of user-friendly health tech applications, improving customers' engagement and satisfaction with technology tools.
• Collaborated with key stakeholders to define technology requirements and deliver customized solutions.
• Collaborated with key stakeholders to define the technology and product road map.
• Executed on senior leadership's long-term and mid-term technology development goals.
• Presented budget and business planning proposals to senior leadership, advocating for junior personnel needs and segment-wide business goals.

• Collaborate with Business and Finance teams to develop a technology roadmap based on business goals and company strategic priorities.
• Maintain platform availability of 99% for African clients VAS services.
• Collaborated with other technology entities in the successful launch of Egypt's largest online concert of Cairokee with More than 70K concurrent online viewers.
• Leading the VAS Platform revamp and enhancements to be a stand alone platform that can be used by other nun tech teams.
• Design and put the technical highlights of the different platform modules.
• Participating in different Agile ceremonies.
• Develop, review and guide the team to make sure they gain the best out of the development technologies.
• Reviewing the automation of all daily repeatable tasks.
• Enabling DevOps and leading the DevOps team in the process of the automation of all live deployments.

Technologies: AWS Lambda, AWS EC2, AWS ECS, AWS RDS (PostgreSQL IO Optimized), NodeJS, NestJS, ReactJS, NextJS, MUI, AWS SQS, Github Actions, RESTful APIs. Cloud watch AWS Cognito.

• Acting as the CTO along with doing all his required and necessary functions.
• Partnered with the CMO and CFO to align together on the company strategy and goals.
• Reviewing with the CEO the company and technology department performance and goals.
• Meeting with new clients to show the services we can provide and successfully signed with one of the most successful operators in Tanzania.
• Establishing, leading new team of Software Development Engineers to deliver highly effective Value Added Services platform.
• Collaborating in the development of both backend and frontend modules.
• Collaborating in the enhancement of VAS revenue generation from 3M to be more than 9M$ a year from the African market.

Technologies: AngularJS, Java, Sprint boot, ActiveMQ, Kannel, PostgreSQL

• Performing the required CTO functions during a transition period.
• Evaluated employee skills and knowledge regularly, training, and mentoring individuals with lagging skills.
• Worked different stations to provide optimal coverage and meet production goals.
• Minimized resource and time losses by addressing employee or production issue directly and implementing timely solutions.
• Lifting up the team's spirit and maintaining platform performance through tough period during a company de-merge.
• Collaborating in the development of new VAS services along with introducing new features in the existing services.

• Establishing a whole new team to lead the function of the company main platform revamp and strategic technology stack change.
• Building a new platform along with the infrastructure that collect a small amount of daily service fees from operator's customer in exchange of giving them piece of information about different topics.
• Giving the customers the chance to compete through a trivia games.
• Participated in the company's first and most successful service (Hareef Aflam) generating more than 6.9M Egyptian Pounds monthly with the most successfully billing engine in VAS industry in egypt.
• Building various tools like customer care tool, SMS campaign, content creation tool ... etc.
• Abiding to the regulatory and NTRA legal and guidelines throughout the development of the platform.
• Evaluated employee skills and knowledge regularly, training, and mentoring individuals with lagging skills.
• Trained new team members by relaying information on company procedures and safety requirements.
• Coached team members in techniques necessary to complete job tasks.

Technologies: Java, Spring boot, PostgreSQL, Kannel, AngularJS, RESTful APIs, Linux, Cloud Management, Firewall Policies.

• Leading a team of full stack developers.
• Collaborating in the development of the company's Fin Tech Plarform.
• Developing the integration with various operators like Vodafone Egypt, Etisalat Egypt, Orange Egypt and WE also with other service providers in the gaming and Fin Tech sectors to provide most of the desired payment services for the egyptian customers.
• Developing and improving the quality of the company's POS Machines.

Technologies: Andriod development(Java), WSO2, Java , Hibernate, PostgreSQL, C, Wordpress.

Leading a team of self-motivated colleagues to plan and execute motivation plans and engagement activities for our department employees, organizing all hands event and planning for team building trips.

• Started as Senior Specialist then I got promoted to Technical Lead.
• Listened and responded to customer requests and forwarded necessary information to superiors.
• Interpreted clients' needs and introduced services to fit specific requirements.
• Followed all company policies and procedures to deliver quality work.
• Attended training programs to deepen professional skillset and assisted in training fellow store associates on existing and new training programs.
• Making sure no night activity contradict with one another to prevent conflicts.
• Introducing new tools either developed in house or open source tools to support them in performing their jobs more efficiently.
• Collaborated with other departments in facilitating the introduction of new tools and promos.

• Led development teams in building system, data and application-level interfaces and functional relationships.
• Collaborated with product specialists to understand requirements and align business processes to product features and capabilities.
• Developed and evaluated solution options to build consensus and drive quality solutions.

• Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
• Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff.
• Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in Software Development Technologies and working to improve overall team performance.
• Checked client code for bugs and weaknesses using approved troubleshooting methods.
• Participated in the launch of Vodafone Egypt most successful service in 2014 ( Top up and collect your home )
• Participated in many other services like Flex Share, Balance Transfer, Location GW, Location Based Advertisement ... etc.

Technologies: JSF, JavaEE, Oracle DB, Oracle PL/SQL.

• Worked with software development and testing team members todevelop robust solutions to meet client requirements.
• Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
• Collaborated with management, internal and development partners regarding software application design status and project progress.

Technologies: STRUTS, JavaSE, JavaEE, Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle.