Hazem Khaled
Head Of Engineering at Salla
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolHazem Khaled is an experienced engineering leader with over 14 years of hands-on experience and two decades of building scalable systems across startups, governments, and high-growth e-commerce. As Head of Engineering in Dubai, he currently manages 60+ engineers across 20 cities, driving platform resilience and growth for a GCC e-commerce leader serving 70,000+ businesses. He specializes in microservices, cloud-native infrastructure, and platforms that handle millions of daily API calls, with deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes, and GraphQL. Hazem has scaled teams internationally, led agile transformations that shortened deployment cycles, and played a key role in pre-IPO scaling from a handful to 500+ employees. He combines strategic CTO experience—designing CI/CD, billing integrations, and observability stacks—with practical open-source contributions, such as locale and SQL sync enhancements to the Alloy framework. Known for mentoring engineering leaders and aligning technical roadmaps with business goals, he balances product-focused delivery with robust operational practices.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of the PeopleAssociate's degree, Computer Science, Associate's degree, Computer Science at Advanced Technical School For Information Technology
Arabic, English, Turkish
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Github Skills (15)
alloy10
javascript10
titanium-sdk10
mobile-development9
sql9
npm-package8
ios6
api6
appcelerator6
appcelerator-titanium6
android6
iphone6
titanium-mobile6
titanium6
java6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tidev/alloy
Nov 2015 - Mar 2019
Alloy is an MVC framework for the Appcelerator Titanium SDK
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Hazem contributed to the Alloy framework by adding Saudi Arabian locale support for moment.js, enabling correct date and time formatting. They also introduced functionality allowing a function to be used for the `db_file` parameter within the SQL sync adapter, providing flexibility in database file management. The user implemented a test application, demonstrating the use of custom database file names and the overall functionality of the framework. Furthermore, they fixed a warning message related to platform-specific view handling in iOS builds.
npm-packagetitaniumandroidsdkalloy
Knawat/knawat-dropshipping-opencart
Nov 2018 - May 2022
Knawat Dropshipping module for OpenCart 2 & 3
Contributions:14 releases, 18 reviews, 26 commits in 3 years 6 months
ecommerceopencart-3xopencartdropshipdropshipping
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