Hisham Mardam-bey is a seasoned engineering leader with over 15 years of hands-on experience and two decades of engagement with evolving technologies, currently serving as Vice President of Engineering. He has a proven track record building and scaling distributed, low-latency systems, data pipelines, and high-throughput messaging platforms across gaming, dating, and lead-generation industries. Hisham excels at aligning technical and non-technical teams, optimizing developer workflows (often achieving 5x–10x improvements), and growing distributed engineering organizations to maximize output. He combines deep architecture skills—Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, Cassandra, Akka/Vert.x, ElasticSearch—with pragmatic product focus and a penchant for mentoring engineers. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he’s improved the popular Redis Java client Jedis with richer ZRANGEBYSCORE support and cleaner refactors, reflecting his attention to both performance and API ergonomics. Based in Montreal with a Master’s in Computer Science, he thrives on learning from his teams and translating new technologies into measurable business value.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Lebanese American University
Contributions summary:Hisham primarily focused on enhancing the Jedis Java client, a library for interacting with Redis. Their contributions involved implementing more comprehensive support for the `ZRANGEBYSCORE` family of commands, including adding string and byte array versions, and incorporating `Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY` and `Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY` to represent negative and positive infinity respectively. These changes improved the usability and feature set of the library. The user also made code refactoring and merging efforts.
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 6 months
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Hisham Mardam-bey - Vice President Of Engineering at Quantum Network