Issam Alzinati
Principal Engineer at McKinsey & Company
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolIssam Alzinati is a Principal Engineer based in Amsterdam with over 15 years of experience leading architecture and engineering teams to build large-scale, distributed systems across education, e-commerce, logistics and finance. He specializes in cloud transformation and engineering excellence, having led migrations of 1,500+ applications, Kubernetes transitions for platforms serving tens of millions of users, and programs that raised engineering productivity by 15–25%. Issam combines hands-on platform work—secrets vaulting, data catalog decisions, search re-architectures—with strategic partnering at the CTO/executive level to align technology choices with measurable business outcomes. He has a track record of turning modernization into concrete value: cost reductions of ~45% in cloud spend, improved search conversion and system scalability, and creation of new fintech offerings. A former startup mentor and incubation director, he brings both operator pragmatism and investor-facing experience, blending technical depth with change management to deliver sustainable impact.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree MSc in Data and Knowledge Management, Master's degree MSc in Data and Knowledge Management at The University of ManchesterBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Engineering at Islamic University of GazaNano-Degree Program Self-Driving Car Engineer, Nano-Degree Program Self-Driving Car Engineer at Udacity
Arabic, English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
381reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (53)
aws-appsync10
lambda-functions10
aws-fargate10
aws-lambda10
authentication10
api10
amplify-cli10
amplify9
storage9
aws-amplify9
aws9
serverless-framework9
lambda9
cli9
serverless9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
eelzinaty/business-card-reader
Aug 2019 - Mar 2024
Business Card Reader app using Amplify
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 4 years 8 months
card-readerbusiness-cardreaderwebappamplify
eelzinaty/GazaDevFest17
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.