Eyad Qassem
Staff Software Engineer (Tech Lead) at Prove
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolEyad Qassem is a Staff Software Engineer based in Durham, NC with nine years of experience designing backend architectures and distributed systems for fintech, healthcare, and identity verification. He currently leads backend efforts at Prove and concurrently builds payment and wallet infrastructure as CTO of Spark Wallet, where he implemented Bitcoin Lightning integration and dynamic Google/Apple wallet passes. Eyad is a pragmatic full‑stack developer who has migrated legacy .NET stacks to Node.js/TypeScript and React, modernized auth and CI/CD on AWS, and overseen small engineering teams. His background uniquely blends regulated lab and clinical systems experience with production-grade payment and identity engineering, giving him a strong appreciation for security, compliance, and reliability. He holds a B.S. in Quantitative Biology from UNC Chapel Hill and often applies data-driven thinking and protocol-level tooling (including Rust integrations for Lightning) to solve complex systems problems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Quantitative Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Quantitative Biology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (17)
bitcoin7
e-mail6
tinymce6
lightning-network6
matching5
mongoose4
expressjs4
location4
react3
mongodb3
redux2
full-stack2
javascript2
python2
github2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ProjectFriend/Find-A-Friend-2.0
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 25 PRs, 14 pushes in 10 days
reactexpressjsfull-stackjavascriptexpress
Teachers-Pet/TeachersPet
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:56 PRs, 26 pushes, 4 comments in 21 days
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