Hazem Salem
Senior Solutions Architect at Transurban
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolHazem Salem is a Senior Solutions Architect based in Melbourne with 15 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale, cloud-native integration platforms and API-led architectures across enterprise and agency environments. He has led teams of up to 14 engineers, driven DevOps and API lifecycle initiatives, and coordinated multi-vendor delivery at firms including Transurban, Deloitte and PwC. Technically grounded in Microsoft and Azure ecosystems as well as .NET, microservices and OAuth2 security patterns, he pairs hands-on implementation experience with program-level planning, risk and release management. An active open-source contributor, Hazem has improved UX and core functionality in the widely used Anki and AnkiDroid projects, showing a detail-oriented approach to real-user problems. He blends practical engineering (CI/CD, API gateways, Azure services) with consulting-grade communication as a single point of contact for clients. Outside work he tinkers as a hobbyist trinket manufacturer, hinting at a maker’s curiosity that informs his pragmatic problem-solving.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer and Information Science Computer Science, Master of Computer and Information Science Computer Science at Auckland University of TechnologyBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Modern AcademyMaster Information system, Master Information system at Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (15)
kotlin10
debug10
backend10
front-end-development10
qt10
python10
android10
back-end-development10
anki10
ui-design9
javascript9
uid9
user-interface8
flash8
stripe-payments6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ankidroid/Anki-Android
Apr 2015 - Jan 2020
AnkiDroid: Anki flashcards on Android. Your secret trick to achieve superhuman information retention.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:1 release, 157 commits, 334 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Hazem primarily contributed to the AnkiDroid application's codebase, focusing on bug fixes, code cleanup, and feature enhancements related to the user interface and application behavior. Their work included cleaning up dismiss/undo handling, addressing font-family issues in the template editor, and implementing card cycling functionality in the previewer. Furthermore, the user worked on improving the audio recording functionality and implemented changes to improve the overview statistics display, providing a better user experience.
anki-flashcardsankidroidsrsandroidtrick
ankitects/anki
Jun 2013 - Jun 2016
Anki's shared backend and web components, and the Qt frontend
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Hazem contributed to both the frontend and backend of the Anki project. They added features for deck management in the browser tree, including expand/collapse functionality, which involved changes to both the Anki backend (decks.py) and the browser interface (browser.py). Additionally, the user implemented copy/paste and context menu support for all card windows, impacting aqt/webview.py, aqt/clayout.py and aqt/main.py. The user also made improvements to the exporting and browser search functionality.
desktopankicomputers
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