Kamal Albatarni
Chief Technology Officer at Newsifier
Doha, Qatar
Summary
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Top SchoolKamal Albatarni is a pragmatic CTO and co-founder with 11 years of engineering experience who has built and scaled Newsifier into an AI-powered CMS serving 400+ publishers and 2.3 billion monthly pageviews. He combines hands-on development—shipping the original MVP and core editorial features—with platform-level thinking, introducing Kubernetes, microservices, and managed infrastructure to deliver stability for peak loads (30k+ concurrent users for a single client). Known for solving thorny performance and integration challenges, he previously led full-stack work for high-throughput e-commerce platforms and designed resilient inventory syncing engines. Tech-agnostic by philosophy, Kamal focuses on automation, AI-driven editorial tooling, and SEO-first performance so publishers can prioritize content over ops. Based in Doha, he hires and mentors distributed teams and enjoys turning practical constraints into scalable systems that grow audience and revenue.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology, Honors Second Class Upper, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology, Honors Second Class Upper at University of Greenwich
English, Arabic, Portuguese
Github Skills (34)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
albatarnik/vue-pikaday
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
Vue JS component wrapper for Pikaday library
Contributions:17 PRs, 22 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 7 months
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albatarnik/editor.js
Aug 2020 - Jan 2022
A block-styled editor with clean JSON output
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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