Youssef Khalil

Youssef Khalil

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ABOUT ME
Full Stack Engineer & Eng Manager with 7+ years of experience
Full Stack Engineer & Eng Manager with 7+ years of experience

With over 7 years of experience in software development and leadership, I am a technical leader focused on building robust engineering teams and software.

My strong leadership skills enable me to manage cross-functional teams effectively while delivering prompt results through proactive communication.

Berlin (+01:00)
Joined November 2022
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5.0
(1 reviews)
sheriffderek
sheriffderek
July 2023
Excellent mentor. Youssef really took the time to understand my situation and, more importantly, my goals. I had a great conversation and came away with much more than I had hoped for. You can count on him for big-picture architecture down to the little implementation details. Highly recommended.
EMPLOYMENTS
Full Stack Developer
Tilla
2023-01-01-Present

- Full-stack Development with TypeScript, NestJS, Next.js, GraphQL

- DevOps & Infrastructure with Docker, Terraform, AWS: Spear...

- Full-stack Development with TypeScript, NestJS, Next.js, GraphQL

- DevOps & Infrastructure with Docker, Terraform, AWS: Spearheaded the optimisation of our CI/CD pipeline using CircleCI, Docker and Docker-compose, which accelerated deployment frequency by 50% and enhanced development experience. Tracked using DORA metrics.

- Testing: Initiated a culture of rigorous testing using Jest and Cypress and Chromatic. To battle technical debt and regressions. Used SonarCloud for accountability, visibility and standards setting.

- Crafting a Tech Roadmap with Team Buy-In: Led the discussion and creation of a comprehensive technical roadmap, aligning the team’s goals and finally conducting retro sessions to reflect, learn and adjust.

- Agile Practices and SOLID Principles: Advocated for Agile methodologies and SOLID principles, improving team collaboration and accelerating product delivery speed by 30%. Tracked using DORA metrics.

Node.js
PostgreSQL
Docker
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Node.js
PostgreSQL
Docker
React
Next.js
NestJS
Tailwind css
AWS
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Head of Engineering
Papershift
2021-11-01-2023-03-01

People

  • Leadership: Led a distributed team of 20+ engineers, including two engineering managers and a tech lead that lead te...

People

  • Leadership: Led a distributed team of 20+ engineers, including two engineering managers and a tech lead that lead teams of 5-8 engineers (frontend, backend &mobile).
  • Develop & Promote: Hired, led and developed 3 senior engineers into leadership positions by providing regular feedback and aligning individual skills and growth areas with company needs and trajectory.
  • Empower: Extended the engineering competency matrix to be more inclusive by having management and Individual contributor tracks for engineers to grow.
  • Hire & Onboard: Standardised the hiring process across engineering teams and collaboratively maintained it with the team leads.

Tech

  • Technical Strategic Impact: Initiated, planned, and supported a legacy codebase refactoring project by setting up strategy, metrics, and goals that increased test coverage from 20% to 70% and the maintainability score from D to B.
  • Collaborate &Align Across Functions: Initiated and aligned product & engineering teams to have a recurring tech debt management strategy by allocating 20% of each sprint to technical debt.
  • Engineering Best Practices: Led and collaborated with the team to adopt tools like CodeClimate and SonarCloud to define software quality acceptance criteria on each pull request. Kept our maintainability under 5 days and test coverage above 80%.

Product

  • Collaborate &Align Across Functions: Led the re-org from functional teams into cross-functional teams forming a matrix organisation. Managed to increase alignment between product, engineers, and designers greatly and significantly reduced delivery time by 40-50%.
  • Collaborate &Align Across Functions: Set annual hiring plans with the team leads and technical roadmaps with the tech leads in conjunction with the head of product in the context of cross-functional teams.
SQL
Team Building
Leadership
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SQL
Team Building
Leadership
Strategy
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Frontend Team Lead
Papershift GmbH
2020-05-01-2021-11-01
- Built, grew and led a team of 5 frontend engineers from scratch into a self-managing autonomous team. - Architected a modular Vue.js p...
- Built, grew and led a team of 5 frontend engineers from scratch into a self-managing autonomous team. - Architected a modular Vue.js product that can scale based on best practices. - Set up workflows that ensure quality, test coverage, constant integration and feedback loops. - Set up engineering hiring processes and workflows from scratch. - Constructed 1:1 meeting structures and led the development of my team members. - Constructed a detailed and clear career framework that accommodates both IC & Management tracks to enable the growth of my team members vertically or horizontally.
HTML/CSS
Unit Testing
TypeScript
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HTML/CSS
Unit Testing
TypeScript
JavaScript
Jest
Vuex
Clean Architecture
Cypress
Tailwind css
Vue.js
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