Summary
Sameh Khasawneh is a software engineering manager and hands-on architect with 11+ years building backend-heavy, high-throughput systems across startups and scale-ups. He has led teams from engineering lead to CTO roles, driving architecture transformations that delivered measurable gains—5x performance improvements, 70% infrastructure cost reductions, and an 85% drop in bugs through improved observability and on-call practices. His expertise spans microservices, gRPC/WebSockets at massive connection scale, data engineering for multi-million-record datasets, and pragmatic DevOps that speeds releases and raises uptime. Based in Amman, he blends deep technical ownership with people leadership, mentoring engineers to ship reliable, maintainable platforms that align with business goals. An operator who still codes, Sameh often bridges product and engineering to prioritize impactful features while modernizing systems for long-term scalability.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Software Engineering at Princess Sumaya University for Technology
English, Arabic