Abed Halawi
Staff Software Engineer at Uber
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAbed Halawi is a Staff Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 13 years of experience designing scalable systems that automate and elevate human workflows. He blends hands-on engineering and technical leadership across startups and enterprise projects—most recently as a Lead Engineer building AI-driven tools for greenhouse growers and now at Uber—while championing readable code and concise communication. A pragmatic full-stack developer turned architect, he has led large media-platform builds for MBC and helped deliver influencer-marketing infrastructure trusted by brands like Uber and Netflix. An active open-source contributor, he improved Neo4j support for Laravel (Bolt + causal clustering) in NeoEloquent, demonstrating deep database and backend expertise. Known for cultivating open, collaborative teams, he pairs product-minded engineering with a steady focus on developer experience and long-term maintainability.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Information, BS Computer Science and Information at American University of Science and Technology
English, Arabic, French, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
bolt10
laravel10
neo4j10
php10
database-design10
testing9
causal9
clustering9
shell6
vagrant6
ssh6
command-line6
provisioning6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Vinelab/NeoEloquent
May 2014 - Jul 2022
The Neo4j OGM for Laravel
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:32 releases, 12 reviews, 423 commits in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Abed primarily focused on enhancing the Neo4j OGM for Laravel, making significant changes to the underlying database connection and query building mechanisms. They refactored the codebase to support Bolt connections for Neo4j, including causal clustering support, and deprecated HTTP connections. The user also addressed eager loading issues, impacting how relationships were fetched and managed within the framework. Furthermore, the user fixed compatibilities and made functional tests to pass.
laravelneo4j-ogmneo4jeloquent
Vinelab/country
Jun 2013 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 10 months
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