Ammar Najjar
Staff Software Engineer at CTS EVENTIM AG & Co. KGaA
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAmmar Najjar is an engineering leader and software architect with 11 years of hands-on experience building and scaling full-stack systems from Angular frontends to .NET and NestJS microservices, currently leading frontend architecture and people development at CTS EVENTIM in Germany. He combines chapter-level leadership—defining coding standards, shared libraries and accessibility/performance initiatives—with squad-level delivery and coaching, ensuring outcomes align with product goals. His background spans robotics and automation (ROS, C++) to DevOps practices (Kubernetes, Helm, GitLab, Jenkins), reflecting a pragmatic move from research to production-grade systems. Ammar also contributes to open-source documentation, improving clarity in widely used projects like Scrapy, which highlights his attention to developer experience and communication. Colleagues describe him as a mentor-focused architect who turns complex technical decisions into maintainable standards and measurable improvements.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information and Automation Engineering, Master's degree Information and Automation Engineering at University of BremenBachelor's degree Mechatronics, Bachelor's degree Mechatronics at Al-Baath University
English, Arabic, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
webscraper10
scrape10
webscraping10
scrapy10
data-scraping10
documentation10
application-framework9
app-framework9
crawler9
web-framework9
python8
angular6
php6
docker6
typescript6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
scrapy/scrapy
Oct 2019 - Aug 2020
Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:4 reviews, 18 commits, 2 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ammar's contributions primarily involve modifying documentation files within the Scrapy repository. These changes include correcting grammatical errors, ensuring proper formatting, and updating references to function calls using the appropriate backticks. The revisions encompass various documentation sections, such as those related to Item Loaders, exporters, request-response handling, and general API usage. The user appears focused on enhancing the clarity and accuracy of the Scrapy documentation.
crawlingpythonscrapyscrapingframework
ammarnajjar/ammarnajjar.github.io
Jun 2016 - Jul 2026
My Personal Blog
Contributions:37 PRs, 121 pushes, 47 branches in 10 years 2 months
jekyll-blogbadgesjekylljekyll-theme
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