Summary
Emad Alam is a pragmatic CTO and seasoned software architect with over a decade of experience building scalable web, mobile and TV platforms and standing up engineering and R&D teams from the ground up. Based in Berlin, he combines hands‑on development in JavaScript, Elixir and Rust with product-facing architecture and cloud cost-aware solutions across GCP/AWS and big data stacks. He has a track record of shipping platform-grade tooling—everything from an encrypted, login-free chat (reden.me) to atvjs, a pure-JS Apple TV framework—and routinely mentors and hires high-performing teams. Known for strong open-source engagement, Emad pairs practical engineering best practices and CI/CD automation with pragmatic trade-offs for reliability and delivery. Colleagues rely on him to translate fuzzy ideas into production-ready systems while keeping an eye on developer experience and long-term maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science & Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological University
English, Bosnian, German, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi