Abdul Zantout
Chief Technology Officer at Waypoint Commodities
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAbdul Zantout is a hands-on CTO and founder with a decade of experience building technology for companies that move physical goods, from fresh produce marketplaces to commodity trading platforms. He designs and ships robust transactional and financial systems—data pipelines, payment rails, and communication layers—that scale global buyer-seller operations and reduce operational risk. At FarmLend he led the strategic pivot from lending to trading, raised seed funding, and built the Vertical OS that underpins purchasing workflows; he now leads tech at Waypoint Commodities. A full-stack engineer by training, Abdul contributes to open-source front-end tooling (notably Angular + NgRx starter projects), reflecting his focus on sustainable, maintainable products. Based in London, he blends product-driven leadership with deep implementation experience, often taking projects from prototype to production while recruiting and mentoring high-performing teams.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Mathematics, High School Mathematics at Lycée Abdul KaderBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at American University of Beirut
French, Arabic, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
ngrx10
typescript10
rxjs10
typescript-types10
angular-material10
typescripts10
angular10
unit-testing9
lazyload8
lazy-loading8
bootstrap7
angular-cli7
material-design7
android6
android-layout6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tomastrajan/angular-ngrx-material-starter
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Angular, NgRx, Angular CLI & Angular Material Starter Project
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Abdul primarily focused on implementing and refactoring Angular components and integrating them with NgRx for state management. They updated existing features, particularly within the "books", "form", and "stock-market" examples, by integrating new NgRx features and refactoring existing implementations. They also made changes to the settings features and test cases, demonstrating a good understanding of the project's architecture. The user's contributions span both the frontend and state management aspects of the application, updating action, reducers, effects and components.
bootstrap4angular-clingrxlazy-loadingmaterial-design
abedzantout/nest-authentication-and-user-management-starter
Jun 2020 - May 2021
Nest Authentication and User Management Starter Pack
Contributions:1 release, 149 commits, 12 PRs in 11 months
nestjsnest-boilerplateuser-managementstarter-packauthentication
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