Firas Qutishat
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Gen™
Saudi Arabia
Summary
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Top SchoolFiras Qutishat is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 14+ years of experience building national-scale, regulated digital platforms and currently leading cloud-native, AI-enabled engineering efforts from Saudi Arabia. He combines hands-on expertise in backend systems, Golang, blockchain identity (notably contributions to Hyperledger Aries and Fabric), and platform architecture with a proven track record of shaping high-performing teams and delivery practices. At SecureKey he drove open-source identity work—adding DID Document models and validation to aries-framework-go—and later scaled enterprise platforms as a senior manager. His M.Sc. in Business Intelligence and Big Data complements a pragmatic focus on measurable business outcomes and platform strategy. Colleagues describe him as a builder who moves fluidly between code, architecture, and organizational enablement to operationalize complex, auditable systems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science (CS), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science (CS) at Jordan University of Science and TechnologyM.Sc. Business Intelligence and Big Data, M.Sc. Business Intelligence and Big Data at University of Greenwich
English, Arabic
Github Skills (7)
data-modeling10
json10
chaincode10
go10
hyperledger-fabric10
blockchain10
verifiable-credentials9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger-aries/aries-framework-go
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
Hyperledger Aries Framework Go provides packages for building Agent / DIDComm services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 597 reviews, 893 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Firas Qutishat's primary focus appears to be the development and implementation of data models for the Hyperledger Aries Framework Go project. They were instrumental in introducing the DID Document data model and subsequently enhancing it by adding validation to the document structure. Furthermore, they contributed to the framework's features, adding functionality for generic DID resolution and creating a generic store for did.
golanghyperledgerdecentralized-identifiersaries-frameworkagent
hyperledger/fabric-sdk-go
Mar 2017 - Oct 2019
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 156 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Firas's commits indicate a focus on updating the Go SDK to work with v1.0.0-alpha and v1.0.0 beta of Hyperledger Fabric. They updated internal dependencies and test cases. The user primarily worked on code related to chaincode, including deployment, instantiation, and various queries.
distributed-ledgerhyperledgerblockchainhyperledger-fabricgo
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