Said Saifi
Director Of Engineering at Alpaca
Lebanon
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Top SchoolSaid Saifi is a Director of Engineering based in Lebanon with six years of professional experience building and leading Go-centric backend teams at fintech and satellite imagery companies. He progressed rapidly at Alpaca from Senior Engineer to Engineering Team Lead for Ledger and now directs engineering, demonstrating strong promotion velocity and product trust. Prior roles as Lead Software Engineer at ICEYE and Layer highlight his expertise in scalable, cloud-native systems and distributed services. He began his career blending software and DevOps responsibilities, giving him a practical full-stack operations mindset uncommon in pure engineering managers. Trained in Computer and Communication Engineering at the American University of Beirut, he pairs formal engineering foundations with hands-on delivery in high-performance Go environments. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex backend challenges into robust, production-ready systems while mentoring teams through fast growth.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Life Science, High School Life Science at OMECBachelor's Degree Computer and communication engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer and communication engineering at American University of BeirutHigh School, High School at Escola Islamica Brasileira
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Github Skills (102)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
said-saifi/xlsx
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Go (golang) library for reading and writing XLSX files.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
golanggolang-libraryxlsxxlsx-filesgo
said-saifi/errgroup
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
errgroup with goroutine worker limits
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
golanglimitsmultiplexerworkersasl
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