Kareem Janoudi is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on software engineer with over a decade of experience building scalable cloud-native APIs and front-end experiences. As CTO at Cheddar Up he architects microservice APIs, leads iOS and web teams, and drives security and platform evolution using AWS, React/Redux, GraphQL, and Rails. He blends startup founding experience and consulting for IoT and SMBs with deep practical knowledge of deployment, testing, and ops—everything from Lambda and DynamoDB to RSpec and Elastic Beanstalk. An active contributor to open-source front-end tooling, he improved React bindings for the popular SortableJS project by refining lifecycle handling and reinitialization logic. Based in Michigan, Kareem pairs entrepreneurial instincts (he started a digital marketing business as a teen) with a pragmatic focus on delivering reliable, user-centered systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science Engineering; Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science Engineering; Computer Science at Michigan State University
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kareem primarily contributed to the React bindings for SortableJS, focusing on enhancing the component's lifecycle management and functionality. They implemented features to reinitialize the sortable functionality upon updates and correctly destroy it during unmounting. The user also refactored code for efficiency and passed the sortable instance as a prop to the component, improving the overall user experience. These changes demonstrate a strong understanding of React component lifecycles and integration with third-party libraries.
A set of tools to do distributed logging for Ruby web applications
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
web-applicationsto-dorubyloggingdistributed
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Kareem Janoudi - Chief Technology Officer at Cheddar Up