Kareem Zaher
Engineering Advisor at Brighteye Ventures
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolKareem Zaher is an engineering advisor and seasoned technology leader with over a decade of experience building startups and scaling platforms across Egypt, Europe, and the US. He has co-founded multiple ventures delivering marketplaces, social networks, and developer services, and later led platform and architecture transformations at companies like BetterUp and Booking.com. Kareem excels at turning monoliths into modular, domain-driven systems, launching compliant EU clusters, and introducing internal developer platforms to improve velocity and reliability. He blends hands-on engineering (Ruby, Go, Node, React) with strategic leadership—mentoring founders and engineering teams at Brighteye Ventures and Plato while advising several startups today. An electrical engineering graduate with a track record of migrating massive datasets and extracting core services, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with operational rigor and a knack for pragmatic system design.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology at Loughborough UniversityIGCSE, IGCSE, IGCSE, IGCSE at Egyptian language schoolBachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, A, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, A at The British University in Egypt
English, Arabic, Dutch
Github Skills (48)
openid10
hydra9
identity9
security9
openid-connect9
oauth2-client9
authorization9
oauth2-server9
openid-provider9
server9
oauth9
directive9
oauth2-provider9
docker8
api-security8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kimooz/ng-emoji-picker
Oct 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 10 pushes in 3 years
emojiangular-jsdirectiveemoji-pickerangular
kimooz/hotel_finder
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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