Hussam Alhendi is a Full Stack Team Lead with a decade of experience designing and shipping end-to-end web systems that balance elegant algorithms with pragmatic simplicity. He leads engineering teams at Petra Ride while remaining hands-on across React/Angular front ends and Node.js/Express and SQL/noSQL back ends, emphasizing fast UX, sound schema design, and reliable REST APIs. His background includes building microservices, real-time features, and in-house tooling (such as an A/B testing service), and he has acted as backend lead on marketplace and healthcare platforms. An active contributor to Rocket.Chat, he has improved backend APIs and added custom fields support—demonstrating a commitment to maintainable, secure integrations in open-source projects. Based in Damascus, Hussam pairs strong technical breadth with practical leadership in distributed, product-focused environments.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer science Computer Science, Computer science Computer Science at Yarmouk university
Software Engineer, Software Engineer at RBK - ReBootKAMP
The communications platform that puts data protection first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 22 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Hussam primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Rocket.Chat platform. They focused on enhancing the API, specifically adding functionality to retrieve group information by name. The changes involved modifying server-side JavaScript and CoffeeScript files, which included refactoring code and fixing style issues to improve the overall API performance and maintainability. The user also added the ability to include custom fields in the group creation API.
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Hussam Alhendi - Full Stack Team Lead at Petra Ride