Summary
Fakhr Shaheen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Germany with 7 years of experience building large-scale, cloud-native systems across fintech, e-commerce, and database domains. He has owned end-to-end delivery in FinTech at Scalable Capital and contributed deep Cassandra and DBaaS expertise at DataStax, blending operational reliability with performance optimization. His background includes designing distributed services for Zalando’s logistics stack and developing core components of a graph-based triple store during his research tenure, reflecting a rare mix of production engineering and academic systems work. Known for mentoring engineers and participating in hiring, he emphasizes fault tolerance, CI/CD automation, and measurable system observability. Always learning, he brings both hands-on debugging of complex distributed databases and a demonstrated ability to translate research-grade ideas into dependable production services.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Paderborn University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information engineering-software and information systems engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information engineering-software and information systems engineering at Tishreen University
English, German, Arabic