Helmi Shashaah

• Technical lead and support of scrum team in an agile environment • Preliminary research for projects • Technical conception and documentation of architectures • Responsible for implementing architectural specifications • Contact person for technical questions in the software development area • Assistance in decision-making regarding market-relevant architectures and frameworks • Auditing of software solutions and identification of improvements

• Technical lead and support of international agile teams • Analysis and evaluation of existing software architectures • Contact person for technical questions in the software development area • Assistance in decision-making regarding market-relevant architectures and frameworks • Identification of the need for action and consequences with regard to software technologies • Assistance in defining transition scenarios and migration strategies for measures for architecture and technology standardization

• Technical domain lead in a globally distributed Agile Scrum-based team of 17 senior engineers • Building the framework for the NextGen firewalls and other network security systems • Coaching less senior team members and reviewing their work ensuring their working efficiency and the continuous delivery of high quality solutions within a reasonable amount of time • Participation in senior level architecture grooming and design discussions

• Miscellaneous maintenance of the CDH (Customer Data Hub) MDM system

• Technical team lead in an Agile Scrum-based environment, including supervising trainees and Dual-HS students • Maintained and expanded different interfaces to hotel property management systems and booking portals • Optimized and refactored a high-complexity legacy code-base which connects with over 30 different systems • In charge of architecting and building a new Channel Manager connecting multiple hotel booking portals to the company’s Central Reservations System

• Analyzed the API code-base as a case study for the Master’s thesis under the title “Managing Legacy Code in Accumulatively Grown Software: Port, Rewrite, Redesign, or Refactor?” • Designed and developed a monitoring system for the legacy interfaces • Introduced automated testing for the legacy interfaces • Implemented several process automations as a part of process and system optimizations

• Overseeing technology and software development of the company’s projects • Planned and managed projects for new integration with new booking aggregators, metasearch providers, and an outsourced mobile application • Managed a team of 15-25 on-site and off-shore technical team leaders, senior software engineers, UI engineers, and senior QA engineers • Responsible for the website’s hosting infrastructure to assure optimal security, stability, and performance • Defined architecture and technical standards

• In charge of technology and software development of a product with $15 million in investment • Responsible for expanding the company’s online presence to new markets • Planned and managed projects for new integration with new airlines, hotels, and payment providers • Established a new QA process • Responsible for building and monitoring the website's server farm, and initiated a PCI-DSS compliance process • Defined technical standards and top-level system designs

• Responsible for the design and implementation of the website's booking engine and database in compliance with the OTA's standards • Developed the integration with Amadeus GDS, hotel providers, airlines, and online payment gateways • Configured, monitored, and maintained the website's production servers • Developed code using a strict coding standard, high security measures, and performance metrics

• Responsible for the design and implementation of the system's booking engine and database in compliance with the OTA's (Open Travel Alliance) standards • Developed the integration with Galileo GDS, hotel providers, airlines, and online payment gateways • Designed and developed a local inventory system to manage and sell hotels online side by side with hotels provided by online providers • Developed a tool for corporate and travel agents to manage bookings and traveler profiles

• Working part-time side-by-side with my studies designed and built several projects for local organization • Solutions fully designed and implemented included: - HRMS (Human Resources Management System) - MLRS (Medical Laboratory Records System) - PRMS (Patient Records Management System) - ICS (Inventory Control System) - CTRS (Car Test Reporting System) - MO (Movie Organizer) - MTM (Money Translation Module)

• Internship as part of the Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering • Developed prototype applications on Windows CE using .NET Compact Framework using low-level network sockets and RSA encryption to communicate with Windows desktops

Thesis title: Managing Legacy Code in Accumulatively Grown Software: Port, Rewrite, Redesign, or Refactor? Grade: Thesis: 1,3 (sehr gut) – Overall: 2,1 (gut)