Yaman Almahamid
Team Lead / Architect
Trumbull,CT
Summary
A Team Lead / Architect that has 20 years of hands-on IT experience in designing and implementing cross platform enterprise applications. Worked in diverse industries from Banking, Health Care to Retail with a proven track record of delivering responsive and streamlined solutions in hybrid environments. Worked independently and as a member of small and large teams and was successful in achieving goals under stress and rigorous deadlines. Poses excellent oral and written communication skills at all levels and can express myself well to others.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Lead / Architect
Cotiviti
Wilton, CT
07.2015 - Current
- Lead ML Platform Team of 40 users to build Big Data clusters that host DEV and Prod environments for ML/AI Initiative.
- Participated in design and architectural sessions to plan and rollout ML platform (Bombe) to support Data Scientists activities and host robust, scalable and HiTruset environments for production operations.
- Participated in many POCs for variety of tools working with stakeholders and vendors to identify requirements and choose ultimate tools. POCs included (BlueData, OpenShift, Confluent, Lenses, Ovaledge, Gitlab Premium, Pepper Data and others)
- Lead core DevOps team to establish best practices in CI/CD for engineering projects using Jenkins and GitLab. Also worked with Development, DataOps and MLOps teams to embrace and enforce practices of data and code promotion between environments.
- Worked with Hadoop and Linux admins to setup two Kubernetes environments for ML Team on OpenShift. This enabled quick evolution of tools and availability of resources to support expansion and scalability of processes and tools. Also, I setup working sessions to introduced containerization culture to my team.
- Built first dev and Prod environments for RPA solution using UIPath to rollout automated solutions amending ML Models and injecting scores in operational pipelines.
- Worked with wide verity of open-source languages and tools like Scala, Spark, Python. Also, I maintained variety of new and legacy services and applications written in Java and .Net.
Lead Engineer
Cotiviti
Wilton, CT
07.2015 - 03.2020
- Worked as part of IP/Concept Library development team responsible for rolling out internal applications to support Audits activities to create dictionary of concepts utilized in health care and commercial sectors to define audit knowledge.
- Embraced agile and modern agile with user story grooming sessions with clients, sprints and retrospectives.
- Participated in solution and design sessions with solution architects and BAs and produced mockups, workflows and functional designs in every release.
- Became part of volunteer team on enterprise level and participated in pilots for new platform (C2I). Also, attended meetings of office of CTO.
- Developed SPA web application using Durandal JS/ KnockoutJS on top of ASP.NET WEB API server to serve RESTfull calls using serialized JSON messages.
- Maintained WCF Data Services and worked heavily on creating entire supporting data model (Views / Sprocs in SQL SERVER 2012 and 2015.
- Utilized Microsoft TFS as source control and was responsible for branching and versioning code.
- Helped introducing TDD and BDD concepts and participated in peer coding and code reviews to enforce standards and quality.
- Arranged knowledge share sessions and presentations for OOP, design patterns and advanced software architecture topics with fellow developers and joiner team members.
- Worked on initiative to migrate IP library to cloud using of combination of VSTS and AWS and Git Repository on Azure.
- Worked on couple of initiatives to auto generate rules from rule Schemas for rule engine running on premise and cloud in AWS.
- Helped engineering teams to enable digital culture using open source tools. This includes rolling out CI/CD pipelines for automation on promise and cloud. Using docker for creating application containers for deployment on Hadoop and kubernetes and on AWS.
Team Lead / Senior Software Engineer
Affinion Group
Trumbull, CT
11.2011 - 06.2015
- Worked on Services team responsible of creating and maintaining enhanced CMS system replacing legacy Seibel System. Build new system using WPF technology under C# 4.0 frameworks.
- As a project lead, I led sessions with global business teams to collect business requirements and presented solutions and Demos. I led technical design and planning sessions and oversaw other developers in different tacks under tight and agile schedules until delivery.
- Was present in production releases and participated in release validation processes and support.
- Mentored other developers and helped introducing new frameworks and technologies and R&Ds.
- Worked on highly visible websites written in MVC3 used by business to launch new clients; and also worked on essential services such as Global Membership Service (GMS), Messaging Services, Asset and Card and sign on services.
- Used Best practices such as TDD, unit tests, code and peer reviews.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Engineering
University of Bridgeport
Bridgeport, CT05.2005
Bachelor of Science - Electronic Engineering
Univeristy of Damascus
Damascus, Syria07.1999
Skills
Programming Languages: C#, Python, Java, JavaScript, Go and Scala
Web Technologies: ASPNET, Spring Boot, Django, RecatJs, AngularJs and KnockoutJS
Cloud Technologies: AWS and Azure
Orchestration and Containerization; Docker and Kubernetes
Architecture: SOA, Microservices, Event Driven Architecture, Serverless Architecture
Big Data: Hadoop, Kafka EMR and Cloudera stack
Languages
Arabic
Native or Bilingual
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Project Lead / Architect
Cotiviti
07.2015 - Current
Lead Engineer
Cotiviti
07.2015 - 03.2020
Team Lead / Senior Software Engineer
Affinion Group
11.2011 - 06.2015
Master of Science - Computer Engineering
University of Bridgeport
Bachelor of Science - Electronic Engineering
Univeristy of Damascus
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