Salah Pichen
Technical Lead at Open Innovation AI
Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolSalah Pichen is a Technical Lead and full-stack engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and delivering scalable, high-performance systems across Kubernetes, Kotlin, Node.js, React, Java, and GraphQL. He has a strong track record of applying Domain-Driven Design to untangle complex business domains, migrate monoliths to microservices, and reduce operational friction—most recently improving supplier workflows and cutting support tickets by half at Wayfair. Now leading engineering at Open Innovation AI, he integrates GenAI, RAG, vector search, and prompt engineering into production-ready platforms while championing TDD, BDD, Clean Code, and pairing to raise team craft. Comfortable switching between hands-on coding and shaping technical direction, Salah blends product empathy with pragmatic architecture and a history of founding and scaling developer-facing products for SMBs.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering at MEA Engineering College,PerinthalmannaInternational Indian School, Dammam
Github Skills (34)
google-maps10
testing9
maps8
publish8
changelog8
package8
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javascript8
react-dom8
react-native7
progressdialog7
android7
semantic-release7
release-management7
mapview7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rxfuel/rxfuel-android
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Create fully reactive android apps with RxFuel.
Contributions:62 commits, 4 PRs, 67 pushes in 5 months
kotlinreactiveandroidandroid-apps
thesalah/whar
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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