Hossam Fares
Senior Payments Integration Engineer
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolHossam Fares is a Senior Payments Integration Engineer based in Rotterdam with 12 years of experience building and modernizing backend systems for fast-growing e-commerce and platform businesses. He has led teams and technical vision at companies like Zoover and Namshi, driving migrations from monoliths to microservices, introducing CQRS/event sourcing, and integrating complex payment flows including Apple Pay and Adyen. Comfortable across cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Kubernetes) and stacks (Python, Node.js, PHP, Postgres), he combines hands-on implementation with mentorship to make teams more productive and maintainable. At Adyen he focuses on bridging product needs and engineering reality, and his background shows a rare blend of payments expertise, large-scale migration experience, and practical ops knowledge. An early career foundation in diverse startups and agency work gives him a pragmatic approach to shipping resilient, observable systems under real-world constraints.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in Information Management, Management Information Systems, Bachelor in Information Management, Management Information Systems at Alexandria UniversityPre-Master, Software Development, A, Pre-Master, Software Development, A at Information Technology Institute (ITI)
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (67)
docker-compose9
redis-client9
api9
notification9
mysql-client9
node-redis9
api-documentation9
golang8
faunadb8
notification-center8
redistimeseries8
redis-streams8
minikube8
docker8
php8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
namshi/node-mysql2-promise
Apr 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 4 months
hossam-fares/hossam-fares.github.io
Oct 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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