Safwan Hijazi

SAFWAN HIJAZI Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | - |-| LinkedIn DOB: 2-7-1988 | Place of Birth: Damascus |Current location : Riyadh, Saudi Arabia| Nationality: Syrian A dynamic Technical Team Leader and Full Stack Senior Developer with nearly 8 years experience in the field of IT and Development. Strong technical background matched with a passion for effective team leadership and improving productivity. Knowledgeable in complex integrations, including Biometric verification systems. Skilled in motivating teams and drafting accurate, thorough reports. Proven ability to deliver quality projects on time and to customer satisfaction. Fluent in Arabic and English, with intermediate French skills. Employment Technical Team Lead| Technology Control Co. | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Jan 2014— Present I started with TCC in 2014 as Senior Developer, and in 2016, my position was upgraded to Technical Team Leader. • • • Technical Team Leader (Semati Platform) The Project consists of many e-Services used by Telecom operators, Banks, insurance companies and other companies. Ø We built high scalable system which serves millions of transactions monthly, we are receiving +1 Million transactions in peak days. Ø Currently system has more than 500 million transactions starting from 20-Jan-2016 with response time 1-5 seconds. Ø Currently we have: 5 telecom operators, 2 banks, 1 insurance company, and 2 other clients Ø I was the solution architect and one of development team, and currently I am the technical team leader. Ø Now we started converting the system architecture from Monolithic to microservices to make the system high scalable and cloud based. Senior Frontend developer in AFIS project (Automated Fingerprint Identification System) AFIS is a biometric identification (ID) methodology that uses digital imaging technology to obtain, store, and analyze fingerprint data. Ø The project is upgrading old system which is being slow because of huge fingerprint database. Ø System consists of 3 parts (Front-end, middleware, and backend), I was in front-end team and we finished front-end applications by using JSF technology and integrate with middleware application. This front-end application is used in civil affairs, airports, and other ports in the kingdom. Ø New front-end applications are supporting more biometric devices like fingerprint readers (cross match,), camera, passport reader and smart card to read and write on national Identity cards. Senior Backend Developer (Kiosk system for Civil affairs): The project is controlling the visitors of Civil affairs, and registering visitor’s information (Fingerprint, face image, and other demographic information), so they can get many information about visitors. We built backend system to serve many kiosk machines distributed in all Civil affairs buildings around the kingdom, currently we started with capital city(Riyadh) Ø System can handle thousands of transactions daily, and register visitor data Ø The team also built kiosk application to read fingerprint, face image, identity information Pilgrim application: It is a mobile application (android) to check the permit of visitors of Holy places. Ø We helped MOI to check permit of pilgrim faster and avoid issues in the pilgrimage days. Ø We have around 2 million Pilgrim yearly, system is checking permits of all pilgrims in few hours. Ø • Leader of Development Team (mobile, web and backend developers) 2015 –Present I created this team in 2015 and I am the leader, we are 4 developers and one designer, we created many mobile applications (Freelancer team) like: Ø iPad Application for Document Management System for Ministry of Transfer (video), we started the application from scratch, wireframes, design and development using Swift language. Ø Multiplayer game (Letters): we built iOS, android and back-end multiplayer game engine, I built the back-end using nodeJs and mongo database, and we hosted on Amazon Web Services. Senior Software Developer | Innovative Solutions | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Dec 2011 – Jan 2014 • Linq2Factor: It is multi-factor authentication application Page 1 of 2 Ø Ø Ø • Used factors are: One Time Password, Mobile Token, Biometric verification, and Smart Cards. We studied the strict OATH standard (RFC 6238) and implement time-based and event-based algorithms, this standard helped company to be OATH certified. We deployed this system in 2 ministries in the kingdom (ministry of high education, ministry of justice). Well respected developer amongst the online community, as evidenced at StackOverFlow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/-/safwan-hijazi UNIVERSITY-RELATED PROJECTS Semantic Search Engine: RESULTS Developed semantic search engine using Ontology from Jul 2011– Oct 2011. BLUEVOTE Mobile App: Created App that uses Bluetooth to submit ongoing votes by using Java & J2ME. Presented at: Zayed University Competition 2011 EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS BSc, Information Technology Higher Institute for Applied Sciences & Technology| Damascus, Syria 2011 AngularJS Developer Training | Developing JavaScript web applications 2016 Oracle Certified Expert | Oracle Inc. (OCA, OCP, OCE- Oracle Citified Expert)) 2014 Vasco Certified Engineering for Identikey Server: https://www.vasco.com/ 2013 PROFESSIONAL SKILLS Advanced Spring Framework • Spring boot, spring data, Web, Security, rest services Spring cloud: • Config server, Zuul, and Eureka JSF, JPA, Hibernate, JDBC, HTML, Quartz, caching Java Core: Threading, Collections, design patterns, Object oriented. Intermediate Experience DB: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgre, HSQL, Mongdb Web development • AngularJS • Node.Js Good Experience C#: WPF, Silverlight Testing app using JMeter and unit testing Android development Application Server: Tomcat, JBoss EAP Others: Maven and Git and Yeoman Page 2 of 2