Sven Al Hamad
CEO Co-founder at Webiny
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSven Al Hamad is a CEO and co-founder with 13 years of engineering and product leadership experience, blending hands-on software development with entrepreneurial drive. He founded Webiny, an open-source serverless enterprise CMS, after transitioning from a services agency to pioneer serverless content management in 2017. His background includes managing high-stakes media delivery projects at Akamai and architecting video streaming systems that handle multiple terabits per second, reflecting deep expertise in HTTP, DNS, web optimization and AWS/serverless architectures. Sven also co-founded and exited KISHA, the company behind the world’s first smart umbrella, demonstrating a knack for turning hardware-software ideas into marketable products. Actively contributing to Webiny’s front end, he focuses on UI/UX, responsive design and dark-mode theming while steering product and company strategy. Based in the UK and a Y Combinator alumnus, he combines pragmatic engineering with a founder’s appetite for bold technical challenges.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor of information technology Informatics, Bachelor of information technology Informatics at Sveučilište u Rijeci / University of RijekaFounder InstituteŠMRC
Github Skills (8)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-design9
css9
headless-cms8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
webiny/webiny-js
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
Open-source serverless enterprise CMS. Includes a headless CMS, page builder, form builder, and file manager. Easy to customize and expand. Deploys to AWS.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 8 reviews, 376 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Sven primarily contributed to front-end development within the Webiny CMS project. Their commits focus on implementing and improving UI components, fixing visual issues, and adding new features such as a new search box design. They also worked on styling, with a particular focus on responsive layouts and dark mode theming. The contributions demonstrate expertise in UI design and implementation, alongside an understanding of the project's front-end architecture.
cmsaws-lambdaserverlessawsmicroservice
webiny/Http
Aug 2014 - Sep 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 9 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 1 month
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