Wajeeh Zantout
Associate Director, Engineering
United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolWajeeh Zantout is an engineering leader with nine years of experience building and modernizing web and mobile platforms across fintech and digital engineering hubs in the UAE. Currently Associate Director of Engineering at Dubai Holding, he has rapidly progressed through hands-on full‑stack and leadership roles, most recently leading engineering at areeba. He combines a pragmatic full‑stack background—from mobile and backend work to scalable web services—with a focus on aligning engineering outcomes to business goals and measurable impact. An active contributor to open-source tooling for web content extraction, he extended Postlight's parser library with custom extractors to handle diverse news sites, reflecting a detail-oriented approach to real-world data challenges. Colleagues know him for scaling teams and processes without losing sight of code quality or product delivery. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the American University of Science and Technology and is based in the United Arab Emirates.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at American University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (11)
jscript10
parserator10
javascript10
script10
parser10
html-parsing10
parse10
webscraping10
nodes9
nodejs9
jestjs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
postlight/parser
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
📜 Extract meaningful content from the chaos of a web page
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Wajeeh primarily contributed to the `parser` library by implementing custom extractors for various news websites. These extractors involved parsing HTML content and extracting meaningful data, as demonstrated by the changes in HTML fixtures. The user fixed existing extractors and added new ones, which required knowledge of HTML structure, data extraction techniques, and likely, JavaScript or a similar language for parsing and manipulation. These contributions demonstrate a focus on extending the library's capabilities to handle a wider range of web pages.
chaosrollupmercury-parserjestmercury
WajeehZantout/employee-directory-react
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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