Hilal Yazbek, Senior Software Engineer

Hilal Yazbek

Senior Software Engineer

Planning and Statistics Authority

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Bachelor's degree, Business Computing
Experience
14 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 1 Months

Senior Software Engineer at Planning and Statistics Authority
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since June 2013

• Managed the design, development, and maintenance of products using Azure, Dotnet, SharePoint, SQL, Docker. Guided cross-functional teams, collaborated with product managers and teams across different departments to build new product capabilities, and drove technical best practices.

• Redesigned the on-premises surveys infrastructure from a basic 3 tier farm into a fully-fledged system with "Shared Services". The new design allowed higher availability (99.999% SLA), better resource management, and overall decoupled design by using stand-alone SOA.

• Led the modernization of 5 survey applications from Dotnet Framework to Dotnet Core. Creating a new solution architecture using Clean Architecture, designing the infrastructure, and conducting training sessions to level up the skills of the development team.

• Led the development an internal notification system that can send SMS, Email, Internal Push Notifications to users, saving more than 250, 000$ in yearly subscriptions using the latest technologies of Azure, CI/CD, C#, .NET, MSSQL DB, Azure Functions, and Key Vault.

• Developed a web application that enables users to get data based on their map selection, the web application is being used by 10, 000+ students and business owners. The web app was developed using .net core, and ArcGIS and hosted on Azure App Service.

• Led the development of Qatar Census 2020 which served more than 250, 000 individual and more than 100, 000 families in the span of 3 weeks using Azure, CI/CD, C#, MSSQL DB, MS SharePoint, .NET Core APIs.

• Worked with top management to re-architect and re-develop the public site which boosted the number of visitors by 30% in 1 month.

• Initiated a digital transformation project and was able to convert 80% of internal paper services to electronic services.

• Led the development of Qatar Statistics Mobile Application which ranked #3 in productivity apps in Qatar with more than 30, 000 downloads.

• Coached and Mentored junior engineers, through pair programming, code reviews, 1 on 1 meetings.

Software Developer at Netways
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • January 2010 to March 2013

• Led the development of 10+ projects for 9 different clients in multiple locations like, Bahrain, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Beirut using C#, .NET, MS SharePoint, MSSQL, WCF Services.

• Specialized in Microsoft SharePoint Development using client-side and server-side object models.

• Managed projects and stakeholders to make sure all projects are delivered on time and with the highest quality.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Business Computing
  • at Hariri Canadian University
  • August 2009

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
SharePoint
Visual Studio
.NET Compact Framework
Data Analysis & Reports
Web Applications
Problem Solving
SharePoint Server
Business Process Improvement
MS Azure
.Net framework
Application Modernization

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Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert
French
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2017
Valid Until:
December 2023