Professional experience
Software Engineer
BWS Consulting Group GmbH
Backend developer in the CRM department of the Douglas project. RESTful services on a Spring Boot based framework with MongoDB; DevOps with Docker, Jenkins and Git; infrastructure and deployment automation with Terraform; development and operation in the Azure DevOps cloud; error analysis and documentation for continuous quality improvement.
IT Solutions Consultant & Web Developer
IT consulting and web development for private and business clients: web design, WordPress hosting, managed server setup, graphic design, and Nextcloud hosting for secure file management. Clients across the energy, insurance, telecommunications, and investment sectors.
Software Engineer
Future Spaces
Built a new project management tool for local communities with Java 21 and Spring Boot: refactored a monolithic Python system into a layered, stateless architecture, designed the architecture from high level down to code, implemented REST APIs with PostgreSQL persistence, containerized with Docker, and introduced Continuous Delivery with GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
Founder & Lead Developer
Location-based event and venue discovery platform targeting the Syrian market. Full monorepo stack: Laravel backend, Flutter mobile app, Next.js web frontend; PostgreSQL + PostGIS for geospatial queries, Redis caching, Google OAuth and WhatsApp/SMS OTP authentication; VPS deployment with Docker and Aiven-hosted PostgreSQL; Agile/Scrum with Jira; Google Maps API for a map-first UX.
Information Processing Project
Stiebel Eltron GmbH & Co. KG
SAP customizing, user interfaces with SAP Fiori, and web applications with SAP UI5.
Data Analysis Project
Uniper HR Services Hannover GmbH
Celonis process mining: analysis and visualization of business processes from event logs, identification of deviations and optimization potential, KPI creation, and security concepts.
Software Development Project
HDI Group
Document generation with Java Spring Batch for data processing and automation; relational databases with SQL; internal tools with Java and JavaFX GUIs.
Java Developer
IT-P GmbH
Oracle Competence Centre. Built a Java web application with Spring Boot and SQL that monitored a Microsoft mailbox, classified incoming customer emails by priority, and alerted employees in real time — including phone notifications until a Prio-1 issue was acknowledged.
Data Center Technician
Swiss Life Select Deutschland
Installing and removing switches and servers.
Mathematics & Programming Tutor
Private & Leibniz Universität
Tutored nearly 200 international students in mathematics and programming over the years — privately and at Leibniz Universität Hannover.
Intern
adesso AG
Built a library web application with upload/download features using Java EE, HTML/CSS, SQL, and Maven.
Competitive Programmer
ACM, Damascus
Training for the ACM programming world championship in Damascus: algorithms and data structures in C and C++.
Education
B.Sc. Computer Science
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Completed the degree while working in the industry every semester — graduated 2023. Bachelor thesis: "Analysing the Influence of Social Media Influencers on the Bitcoin Price" - sentiment analysis (BERT, RoBERTa) + ARIMA price modeling.
Information Technology
University of Damascus
Two years of Informatics Engineering before leaving Syria for Germany.
Volunteering
Co-founder & Project Lead
Non-profit for the integration of Syrians in Germany and development projects in Syria; led several projects personally.
Volunteer & Mentor
Volunteer work, plus online workshops for Syrian students in Syria on business and studying computer science.
Projects
CRM backend - Douglas
Backend developer in the CRM department of the Douglas project: RESTful services on a Spring Boot framework with MongoDB, deployed via Docker, Jenkins, and Terraform on Azure DevOps.
Ice-Desk
Multi-store B2B ordering platform for an ice cream factory: admin and employee roles, order board, PDF invoices, bilingual EN/RO interface - plus interactive training guides for the client's staff.
Laravel to Spring migration
Migrating a production Laravel API to Java Spring Boot with zero client changes: phased playbook, PostGIS spatial queries, shadow proxy with response diffing, cutover and rollback runbooks.
Coaching platform
Full storefront for a coaching business: session packages, checkout flow, English/Arabic bilingual UI, deployed to production for a real client.
Financial tracker
Monorepo with Spring Boot backend and Next.js frontend: daily financial entries, admin dashboard with inline editing and per-date breakdowns.
Customer manager (JavaFX)
German-language desktop tool: customer records with encrypted sensitive fields, appointment tracking, PDF and Word datasheet generation, self-migrating embedded database.
Firefighting drone (R&D)
Engineering spec for a physical drone prototype: bill of materials, live thrust and flight-time calculator, Pixhawk-Raspberry Pi architecture, MAVLink software interfaces.
Bachelor thesis: Bitcoin & social media
"Analysing the Influence of Social Media Influencers on the Bitcoin Price" (Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, 2021). Collected Bitcoin prices, Twitter data, and Google Trends; classified tweet sentiment with TextBlob, BERT, and RoBERTa; trained an ARIMA model on combinations of financial and sentiment features. Result: the combination of price history and tweet-sentiment popularity predicted best - demonstrating a measurable correlation between social media and Bitcoin price movement.
This portfolio
Built end-to-end: Spring Boot API serving story chapters and projects from PostgreSQL, rendered by Next.js. The portfolio is itself the proof.