Maroun Melhem is an experienced web engineer and engineering leader with over a decade building products for clients like MIT Technology Review, the New York MTA, and the City of Boston. He progressed from hands-on web and app development to leading mid and senior engineering teams, now serving as Associate Director of Development at Speedlane after roles as Lead Engineer at Postlight and Speedlane. Maroun spans the full project lifecycle—from architecture and planning to delivery—frequently partnering directly with stakeholders to translate requirements into robust, maintainable systems. He has worked across diverse tech stacks in agency and product settings, balancing delivery cadence with technical quality. Based in Lebanon, he remains deeply hands-on with code while scaling team capabilities and processes. An understated strength is his longevity in web evolution: he started building before mobile-first was standard, giving him pragmatic judgement about progressive enhancement and legacy modernization.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Software Engineering, Master's degree Software Engineering at Lebanese University (CNAM)
Contributions:28 PRs, 29 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
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