Thomas Fattal
Senior Engineering Manager at Yelp
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolThomas Fattal is a senior engineering manager with 13 years of experience building and scaling high-performance, distributed systems across startups and mid-size companies. He co-founded and architected Findify’s AI-driven SaaS search and recommendation platform—designing its Elasticsearch-based search, real-time event pipeline, analytics stack, and initial ML feedback loops that supported 1,500 customers and 50M+ monthly users. At Namaste he led a monolith-to-microservices replatforming, ran a $6M engineering budget, and implemented organizational structures and OKRs to grow aligned, high-performing teams. Now at Yelp he continues to blend hands-on architecture instincts with people leadership to ship reliable, scalable services. Thomas’s background in GDPR/privacy roles and experience managing fully remote European teams reflect a pragmatic focus on compliance and distributed collaboration. He pairs deep systems engineering roots with entrepreneurial instincts from founding and exiting a venture.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Software Engineering for Distributed Systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Software Engineering for Distributed Systems at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyEngineering Degree Computer Science, Engineering Degree Computer Science at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de LyonDUT Computer Science, DUT Computer Science at IUT MONTPELLIER-SETE
French, English, German, Swedish
Stackoverflow
31reputation
611reached
0answers
1question
Github Skills (14)
magento-extension10
php8
magento7
json6
apache-spark6
scala6
rest-api5
circe4
http4
non-blocking4
elasticsearch3
reactive-streams3
typesafe3
http-client2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Nypias/Routy-Erlang
Sep 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:24 commits in 2 days
securepipeco/data-analyst-challenge
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.