Alaa Alshammaa
Mobile Tech Lead at SafeBoda
Damascus, Damascus Governorate, Syria
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Top SchoolAlaa Alshammaa is a Mobile Tech Lead with 10 years of hands-on experience building and optimizing Android apps for millions of users, currently leading mobile engineering at SafeBoda. He combines deep expertise in Kotlin, RxJava, Retrofit, Dagger, NDK/FFmpeg optimizations and performance-focused architecture to deliver smooth, resource-efficient experiences across a wide range of devices. Experienced as a team lead and instructor, he has onboarded engineers, delivered regional-finance and social media projects, and taught courses that accelerated team adoption of modern Android patterns. His background includes refactoring legacy apps, reducing battery and memory usage, and implementing video editing workflows that run on API 16+. Based in Damascus, he brings a pragmatic, creative approach to problem solving and a track record of shipping on tight deadlines without sacrificing quality. Colleagues describe him simply as a "nerd"—a fitting nod to his passion for low-level performance tuning and developer education.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Yarmouk Private University / BEng. in Software Engineering, A, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Yarmouk Private University / BEng. in Software Engineering, A at Yarmouk University
English, Arabic, French
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Github Skills (36)
android8
graph8
java8
bubble8
mpandroidchart7
recyclerview7
kotlin7
exoplayer6
api6
authorization6
mvvm6
panning6
user-interface6
google-hangouts6
architecture6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AlaaAlShammaa/TMDB-MVVM
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
AlaaAlShammaa/Text-Summarizer-Backend
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 40 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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