Hesham El-Nahhas
Staff Engineer at Zerodayer
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHesham El-Nahhas is a startup-focused Staff Engineer and co-founder with over 15 years of hands-on experience building web platforms and leading engineering teams from Toronto. He has repeatedly worn technical and operational hats—CTO, interim CPO, and interim CTO—demonstrating an ability to balance product delivery, people leadership, and architecture in fast-moving companies like Wrapbook and Arcus. A seasoned Ruby on Rails practitioner, he has contributed front-end modernizations to notable open-source projects such as comfortable-mexican-sofa, migrating legacy Prototype.js code to jQuery and adding tests and admin features. Hesham blends practical full-stack development with founder-level decision-making, and he currently splits his time between staff engineering at Wrapbook and founding Zerodayer, showing a persistent drive to build new products and improve developer workflows.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Information Systems, Bachelor's Degree Information Systems at October 6 UniversityCertificate of General Secondary Education Mathematics, Certificate of General Secondary Education Mathematics at Nefertiti Language SchooliSchool - Information Systems, iSchool - Information Systems at University of Toronto
Arabic, English
Github Skills (7)
cms10
javascript10
jquery10
rails8
ruby-rails8
ruby8
unit-testing7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
comfy/comfortable-mexican-sofa
Aug 2010 - Feb 2014
ComfortableMexicanSofa is a powerful Ruby on Rails 5.2+ CMS (Content Management System) Engine
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:47 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Hesham primarily focused on replacing the existing Prototype JavaScript library with jQuery within the `comfortable-mexican-sofa` repository. This involved the addition of the jQuery library, alongside extensive code modifications to migrate functionality from Prototype to jQuery. Further contributions included adding snippets and unit tests, as well as implementing controller functions, particularly in the CMSAdmin:Snippets controller, which suggests work on the administrative interface.
cmsruby-on-railsmanagement-systemruby-on-rails-5rails
regalii/regaliator
Dec 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 7 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 4 months
regalii-api
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