Hamza Ghani
Director of Engineering at Booking.com
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHamza Ghani is a Director of Engineering with a decade of hands-on experience building customer-focused web products and leading cross-functional teams, honed through rotations at Booking.com and early engineering roles at Team Netsol. He combines strong academic credentials in software engineering with practical leadership—from managing booking and car-rental personalization flows to core integrations and booking engine work. A proven event organiser and volunteer, Hamza co-directed major Manchester student hackathons, securing sponsors, venues and leading volunteer teams, which highlights his stakeholder management and operational instincts beyond engineering. Comfortable in both greenfield experiment-driven web app work and maintaining partner integrations, he brings a pragmatic, data-informed approach to product engineering. Notably, he progressed from intern roles to engineering leadership while staying active in the local tech community, blending technical depth with people-centered delivery.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC, National Dip in IT (Software Development), Merit Pass, BTEC, National Dip in IT (Software Development), Merit Pass at The Manchester CollegePostgraduate Diploma, Advanced Computer Science within Software Engineering, Pass, Postgraduate Diploma, Advanced Computer Science within Software Engineering, Pass at The University of ManchesterBachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, First Class Honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, First Class Honours at The Manchester Metropolitan University
English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi
Github Skills (29)
graphql10
gatsby10
react10
static-site-generator9
fastest9
frontend9
compiler9
gatsby-plugin5
simulation4
speech4
nodejs4
graphcms3
dhcp3
javascript3
server3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
HUFGhani/CanYouLeadMe
Sep 2016 - Sep 2021
Can You Lead Me is an offline alternative to Google Maps, as the application send a SMS to the server of current location and destination and it sends back direction to the phone where application displays it in a beautiful interface
Contributions:6 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
phoneleaddisplaysgoogledestination
HUFGhani/Emergency-Airways
Mar 2018 - Jun 2022
Speech recognition software for management of airway emergencies during Hi-fidelity simulation
Contributions:18 releases, 121 PRs, 157 pushes in 4 years 3 months
emergenciesrecognitionspeech-recognitionsimulationspeech
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