Nebez Briefkani
Head Of Engineering, Envision Engineering (LCC) at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorNebez Briefkani is a payments and ecommerce-focused engineering leader with 12 years of experience building scalable, customer-facing platforms and teams across startups and large tech firms. Currently Head of Engineering for Envision Engineering at AWS, he leads GenAI/ML-enabled public sector initiatives across Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada while also co-founding Vessel. Nebez has a strong track record in retail and payments—driving performance gains, international cache architectures, and product personalization at companies like SSENSE and Lightspeed—and has shipped full-stack solutions from POS systems to high‑availability storefronts. He pairs hands-on development (including front-end projects like a responsive Floppybird implementation) with operational rigor: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and rapid canary rollouts are recurrent themes. Based in Toronto, he blends entrepreneurial instincts with enterprise delivery, often translating complex data and ML outputs into measurable business impact.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Kurdish
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Github Skills (15)
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javascript10
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front-end-development10
css-animations10
user-interface9
syntax6
gwbasic6
virtual-machine6
php6
laravel6
vagrant6
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nebez/floppybird
Feb 2014 - Jul 2022
in case you missed the hype 🐥
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 111 commits, 14 PRs in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Nebez primarily contributed to the front-end development of the "floppybird" game. Their work included setting up the basic structure of the game, extracting assets like pipes and land, implementing parallax scrolling for the sky and land elements, adding a flying bird with animation, and creating a bounding box for collision detection. Additionally, they worked on responsive design by testing the viewport for mobile devices.
gamegameshypegame-development
nebez/inf-list
Aug 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 6 commits, 5 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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