Summary
Hesham Saleh is a software engineer with a decade of experience and over five years focused on fintech and distributed systems, currently building digital banking infrastructure at Goldman Sachs. He brings a practical, production-first approach honed across startups and global banks, delivering microservices, Kafka pipelines, gRPC and resilient APIs in highly regulated environments. Previously at Shaype he helped design a cloud-native SaaS platform for embedded finance, owning end-to-end third-party integrations and rapid two-week production releases. His stack spans Java, Spring Boot, JavaScript/React, Python and PostgreSQL, with hands-on experience debugging and resolving live production incidents. Notably, he has presented greenfield work to senior leadership at American Express and consistently reduces complexity through pragmatic refactors and reusable components. Based in Stony Stratford, he combines startup agility with enterprise rigor to ship scalable, auditable financial systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
IGCSE/A levels, IGCSE/A levels at The British School of Alexandria
New English School, Kuwait.
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport
English, Arabic, French