Youssef Chaker
Technical Team Lead at PayPal
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYoussef Chaker is a seasoned technical team lead and founder with 15 years of experience building and scaling web applications, currently leading engineering efforts at PayPal while running Bear & Giraffe, a dev shop focused on inclusive startups. He combines hands-on Ruby on Rails expertise and solution architecture with a track record of accelerating delivery—turning semiannual releases into weekly deployments and cutting bugs through CI and testing best practices. As a fractional CTO and mentor he’s guided multiple female-led startups to viable MVPs and helped mentees secure engineering roles, reflecting a strong commitment to diversity and community building. His background spans Silicon Valley startups, higher education products, and social-impact organizations, and he often pairs technical leadership with operational responsibilities like recruiting and finance. Notably, he founded companies and an NGO, and led grassroots tech communities in Austin, demonstrating rare fluency across product, people, and strategy.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
HS Diploma, HS Diploma at Lycee Abdel KaderBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at Northern Virginia Community CollegeCarmel Saint JosephBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at University of Virginia
English, Arabic, French, Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (111)
relevance10
solr10
meilisearch10
elasticsearch-client10
angular9
opensearch9
solidus9
elasticsearch9
solr-search9
sandbox9
information-retrieval9
spree8
dynamodb8
algolia8
ruby8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ychaker/dotfiles
Mar 2011 - Apr 2022
Contributions:41 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 11 years 2 months
ychaker/ychaker.github.io
May 2016 - Feb 2022
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 5 years 9 months
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