Jad Bitar
Co-Founder, CIO at Buildingo Labs
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolJad Bitar is a Montreal-based technology leader and serial founder with 16 years building startups and driving engineering strategy as Co-Founder/CIO and CTO across multiple companies including Buildingo, Tooltip.io, WeChalet and IdeaCrafters. He combines hands-on backend expertise in PHP frameworks—an active CakePHP core contributor who added serializers, email-logging scopes and ORM integrations—with product-minded architecture work as a chief software architect and innovation lead. Comfortable shifting between full-stack UI refinements and deep API/CI improvements, Jad has a track record of shipping robust tooling (contributions to Faker, Robo, ApiGen and FriendsOfCake projects) that improve developer experience and cross-platform reliability. His blend of academic grounding in computer engineering and applied math with repeated founder experience gives him a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to scaling teams and codebases. Notably, he often pairs documentation and test-suite improvements with feature work, showing attention to long-term maintainability beyond immediate delivery.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Grand Lycée Franco-Libanais BeyrouthComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Concordia UniversityComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Polytechnique MontréalWeb/Multimedia Management and Webmaster, Web/Multimedia Management and Webmaster at Université de MontréalLycee Francais de RiyadhComputational and Applied Mathematics, Computational and Applied Mathematics at Lebanese University
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Github Skills (38)
data-generation10
cakephp10
sem10
object-mapping10
bootstrap10
sendmail10
apidoc10
send-email10
testing10
e-mail10
data-mapping10
php10
api10
orm10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
FriendsOfCake/bootstrap-ui
Sep 2014 - Feb 2016
CakePHP: Transparently use Bootstrap
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:130 commits, 42 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jad primarily contributed to enhancing the UI and form elements of the CakePHP application, as well as making adjustments to the FlashComponent for better Bootstrap integration. They added support for horizontal form layouts, input groups, and made changes to improve radio and checkbox input rendering. The user also modified the FormHelper and contributed styling to CSS files for the frontend design.
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ApiGen/ApiGen
Jun 2015 - Oct 2016
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 76 commits, 68 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jad primarily contributed to code style improvements and bug fixes, using tools like phpcbf and phpcs for code standard compliance. They addressed issues related to expected types and directory separators, suggesting a focus on code quality and cross-platform compatibility. Additionally, the user fixed a bitcoin link and made other minor changes to various files within the project.
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