Fouad Khalife
Software Engineer
Beirut
Summary
Accomplished Software Engineer at CME, specializing in RESTful API development and performance optimization. Successfully designed 50+ endpoints, achieving 99.9% uptime, and optimized SQL queries, reducing report generation time from 2 minutes to 3 seconds. Proven problem solver with a strong focus on enhancing code quality and mentoring junior developers.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Software Engineer
CME
Beirut
11.2020 - Current
- Designed & implemented 50+ RESTful endpoints for Navigate360’s Behavioral Threat Assessment platform (PHP/Slim), reliably handling ~50 requests/minute with 99.9% uptime.
- Built a 20-page React/Next.js portal, achieving sub-1 second average page loads and a 96/100 Google Lighthouse performance score through code-splitting and SSR.
- Optimized legacy SQL reporting, restructuring complex joins and adding composite indexes to cut report generation times from 2 minutes to 3 seconds.
- Re-implemented MFA flows, migrating a jQuery-based UI into React and refactoring backend auth microservices to streamline multi-factor authentication across all user segments.
- Authored AWS Glue ETL jobs to ingest and transform student data from multiple upstream products into our central RDS database, boosting daily ETL throughput by 80%.
- Integrated 911 alarm service and a third-party EMS API for Navigate360, processing 5,000+ alarm events per day and reducing end-to-end notification latency by 40%.
- Mentored three interns in building a Laravel/React e-commerce & inventory management system, establishing coding standards, code reviews, and TDD practices that slashed runtime errors by 70%.
- Assisted in Dockerizing local development environments, cutting service startup times by 50% and significantly boosting developer productivity.
- Mitigated critical CWE security vulnerabilities in InVitaHealth’s products, triaging and fixing issues surfaced by Snyk scans to harden the codebase.
- Completed “Clean Code” by Robert C. Martin and advanced code-quality courses, then introduced best practices (linters, style guides, refactoring sessions) to elevate maintainability and readability.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Lebanese University
Fanar 09.2017 - 07.2020
Skills
RESTful API development
SQL optimization
Microservices architecture
Problem solving
Performance optimization
PHP development
React development
Timeline
Software Engineer
CME
11.2020 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Lebanese University
09.2017 - 07.2020
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