Houari Zegai
Technical Lead at Naseej
Oregon, Algeria
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Top expert inMulti-Platform App Development and Algorithm Mastery
Houari Zegai is a Technical Lead and senior backend engineer with 8 years of experience building cloud-native, high-availability microservices and secure platforms that have served millions of users across Europe and Saudi Arabia. He combines deep Java expertise (Java 21/25, Spring Boot, Vert.x) with clean and hexagonal architecture, performance tuning, and cloud infrastructure (Azure/AWS) to solve scalability and cost challenges—one migration he led cut infra costs by ~80%. A mentor and team builder, he currently leads an Engagement Platform and coaches a 6-person team while owning architectural decisions and code quality. Outside product work he’s a community builder—host of DevJourney Podcast, founder of Yaqiin.org, and an open-source contributor whose Java projects (including a refactored Calculator demo) aim to teach and improve developer experience. Based in Oregon with roots in Algeria, he favours pragmatic engineering craftsmanship and fast iterations that align tightly with product needs.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Software Engineer, Master's degree, Software Engineer at University of Ibn Khaldun
Arabic, English, French
Stackoverflow
102reputation
2kreached
12answers
2questions
Github Skills (16)
maven10
javas10
refactoring10
java10
swing10
javaswing10
ui-design9
interface-design9
calculator9
user-interface9
generics6
eclipse6
javascript6
jdbc6
java-streams6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
HouariZegai/Calculator
Feb 2018 - Feb 2021
Calculator app created with Java Swing, It is simple with an easy code to help novices learn how to operate a calculator.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 21 commits, 49 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Houari primarily focused on refactoring and improving the calculator application's codebase. They restructured the code for better readability and updated the README file. The user also converted the project to Maven and introduced UI enhancements by replacing toggle buttons with combo boxes for theme and calculator type selection.
novicescalculator-applicationswing-guioperateswing
HouariZegai/LSQLApp
Jun 2018 - Jul 2020
Desktop application :computer: to help teacher 👨🏫 in practical work (TP) to evaluate the student 👨🎓, SQL (structure query language) case - my graduation project.
Contributions:58 commits, 2 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 years 1 month
querydesktop-applicationmysqlevaluateteacher
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