Taher Shihadeh
Software Engineer at Meta
United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolTaher Shihadeh is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience building high-performance, scalable systems and leading engineering teams across startups and larger organisations. He blends deep Unix/Open Source roots and systems expertise with product-focused leadership, having architected core infrastructure and CI/CD practices, grown teams from small to 45+, and steered companies through mergers and scaling challenges. As a founder he has shipped analytics, CV/IoT and remarketing platforms using Python, Docker, Postgres and cloud services, and his consultancy helped align software strategy to business outcomes. Taher’s background in low-level web server work (core Cherokee contributor) and hands-on ops gives him a unique ability to optimise both performance and developer velocity. Based in the UK, he thrives on algorithmic challenges and building teams that balance autonomy with accountability. Colleagues know him as a tinkerer who turns technical curiosity into pragmatic, revenue-driving solutions.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science and Engineering, BSc, Computer Science and Engineering at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - School of EngineeringMedicine, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Medicine, Molecular Biology, Physiology at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - School of Medicine
Github Skills (19)
user-manual3
testing2
redis2
python2
react2
swift2
api2
api-blueprint1
redis-client1
swift-package-manager1
command-line-tool1
music1
api-testing1
rest-test1
cli1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
unixwars/site_memcmp
May 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
unixwars/wnget
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:48 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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