Samar Elhissi
Systems Development Specialist at UN Women
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamar Elhissi is a Systems Development Specialist with nine years of experience designing and delivering mission-critical web applications for UN agencies and international partners. He began with an inventive Android augmented-reality piano and evolved into a full-stack ASP.NET developer, leading teams and managing SDLC across high-stakes projects in the Middle East, Sri Lanka, and Mexico. At UNOPS he built large-scale systems—an import monitoring platform supporting 24K requests/day and a medicine delivery system that facilitated delivery of over 600M items—combining Angular/Svelte frontends with .NET backends and PostgreSQL/Oracle databases. Recognized for operational leadership and awarded Employee of the Quarter, he was appointed head of IT in a complex field environment before being recruited to headquarters to solve cross-national challenges. Now based in New York at UN Women, he works on ERP, AI initiatives, internal apps and websites, bringing both hands-on coding and program-level delivery experience. His background blends deep technical discipline with pragmatic, impact-focused engineering in constrained and high-accountability contexts.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Excellent with Honor degree (94.7%), Computer system engineering, Excellent with Honor degree (94.7%), Computer system engineering at Azhar University - Gaza
Github Skills (21)
database8
csharp7
mapper7
poco7
dotnet-core7
entity-framework7
orm7
schema-migrations6
dotnet6
linq6
sql5
change-tracking5
standard-library2
asp-net-core2
presentation-layer2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
UNOPS/uimf-android
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
UNOPS/uimf-ios
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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