Fayez Zouheiry
Chief Technology Officer at Mantika
Cyprus
Summary
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RockstarFayez Zouheiry is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Cyprus with 11 years of engineering and management experience at Mantika, where he has progressed from Head of Engineering to CTO. He blends hands-on backend development with executive strategy, regularly contributing to open-source Python projects—most notably improving data validation in voluptuous and expanding Tesseract OCR bindings in tesserocr. Fayez is adept at hardening libraries through better error handling, schema semantics, and test-driven improvements, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and developer experience. His dual role running engineering teams while committing code shows he favors pragmatic, maintainable solutions that scale from prototypes to production. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to translate low-level API enhancements into clearer documentation and safer defaults, reducing friction for downstream users.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
ocr10
schema-design10
python-lib10
ocra10
data-validation10
python10
cython10
tesseract10
testing9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sirfz/tesserocr
Dec 2015 - Sep 2021
A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 6 reviews, 118 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Fayez's commits primarily focus on enhancing the tesserocr library, a Python wrapper for the Tesseract OCR API. Their contributions involve implementing robust exception handling mechanisms and updating documentation to improve clarity and usability. They also added support for additional API methods, extending the library's functionality. The user's work streamlines interaction with the underlying Tesseract OCR engine, offering a more reliable and well-documented interface for developers.
python-libraryoptical-character-recognitionapipythontesseract-ocr-api
alecthomas/voluptuous
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: Voluptuous, despite the name, is a Python data validation library.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 comment in 4 days
Contributions summary:Fayez primarily contributed to the data validation library, voluptuous. They implemented features for handling extra keys, including options to prevent, allow, or remove them. They also added and refined the `Remove` marker functionality within the schema validation process, including updated sorting priorities. The contributions involved significant changes to core components and tests within the library.
pythonvalidationvalidation-librarypython-datapythonic
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