John Abed
Head Of Software Engineering at Mercury
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Abed is a Head of Software Engineering based in New York with 9 years of experience building and scaling web applications for SMBs and financial institutions. He blends hands-on full‑stack development (React, TypeScript, Node, Python, Haskell) with people leadership, having led multiple product teams and created Mercury’s first engineering levelling framework for 200+ engineers. A pragmatic technical leader, he still spends meaningful time coding—now leading an incubator team and shipping full‑stack features while mentoring managers and shaping product strategy. His background spans building high‑throughput APIs, accessible banking UIs, CI/CD and cloud deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS), and rapid “tiger team” product launches. He holds dual degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration, which helps him translate customer needs into scalable engineering roadmaps.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Honours Business Administration, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Honours Business Administration at Ivey Business School at Western UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Honours Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Honours Computer Science at Western UniversityOntario Scholar with Distinction High School, Ontario Scholar with Distinction High School at Lakefield College School
English
Github Skills (10)
mongoose7
expressjs6
mongodb5
mean-stack5
nodejs4
angularjs4
angular4
application-manager3
mean3
task-manager2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
johnabed/task-manager-mean
May 2019 - May 2019
Task manager application created using the MEAN stack (Angular, NodeJS with Express and MongoDB).
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
application-managerexpressjsexpressnodejstask-manager
johnabed/housekeeper
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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