Shreef شريف
Founder & Builder at AskOwlo
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolShreef Shreef is a product-focused technologist and founder with 15 years of experience moving from hands-on software engineering to leading large product organisations and startup builds. Based in Amsterdam, he’s led cross-functional teams of 50+ product managers, designers, analysts and engineers at Eneco and Ankorstore, and currently runs AskOwlo while serving in interim product leadership at Booking.com focused on cloud, platform and developer experience. He started as a backend engineer and remains pragmatic about code—his open-source work includes refactoring exception handling in the well-known Zend Framework to improve clarity and test coverage. A Reforge-trained product leader and active coach, he helps engineers and PMs navigate promotions and growth while blending customer-facing discovery with platform-level technical decisions. Unusual for a product leader, he also has early startup founder/CTO experience and a background as a military operations coordinator, which informs his calm execution under pressure.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Product Strategy Product Leadership, Product Strategy Product Leadership at Reforge
English, Arabic, Dutch
Github Skills (5)
zend-framework10
php10
exception-handling10
object-oriented-programming10
testing9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zendframework/zendframework
Oct 2010 - Oct 2010
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Shreef primarily focused on refactoring and updating exceptions within the Zend Framework's Form, Element, and Decorator components. They converted Zend\Form\Exception into an interface, added new exception classes for specific error types, and updated the code to use these new exceptions, enhancing code clarity and maintainability. Additionally, the user made minor comment corrections and updated tests to align with the changes.
zendzend-frameworkphpframeworkmodular
Shreef/shreef.github.io
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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