Ahmad Hakroosh

Experience

12+ years of building and leading.

From enterprise telecom systems to founding-engineer work, engineering management, and high-throughput platforms.

  1. Lytx

    Jun 2024 — Present

    Connected vehicles & video telematics

    Senior Software Engineer

    Jun 2024 — Present

    • Architected the next generation of the IoT telemetry ingestion platform, redesigning high-contention processing into a scalable event-driven architecture validated at 500K+ events per second.
    • Led architectural decisions across backend services, messaging infrastructure, and data persistence to improve scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
    • Reduced production deployment time by 80% through platform modernization, CI/CD optimization, and container standardization.
    • Designed Kubernetes-based development infrastructure that cut local environment setup from hours to minutes.
    • Drove architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and production incident response across multiple engineering teams.
    Node.jsTypeScriptKafkaKubernetesDockerAWSSkaffoldRancherCI/CD

  2. Fyllo

    Feb 2022 — Jun 2024

    Compliance & data intelligence

    Senior Software Engineer

    Feb 2022 — Jun 2024

    • Defined the architecture for the gradual decomposition of a large monolith into independently deployable microservices, including automation scripts and testing infrastructure.
    • Established engineering patterns for service communication, deployment, testing, and operational reliability.
    • Designed an Elasticsearch-based search platform with intelligent caching and scalable indexing.
    • Led the design and delivery of machine-learning capabilities that improved document classification accuracy from 75% to 92%.
    • Influenced architecture and engineering standards across an organization of 30+ engineers in six countries; mentored engineers through design and code reviews.
    Node.jsTypeScriptPythonMicroservicesElasticsearchMongoDBAWSMachine Learning

  3. Stratyfy

    Jan 2020 — Feb 2022

    Fintech · explainable AI for credit decisions

    Engineering Lead

    Jan 2021 — Feb 2022

    • Defined the company's long-term technical architecture alongside the founders, aligning engineering strategy with business growth.
    • Led architectural decisions spanning backend services, cloud infrastructure, authentication, CI/CD, and platform evolution.
    • Helped build the engineering organization by hiring, onboarding, and mentoring engineers; established standards for maintainability, testing, and ownership.

    Founding Software Engineer

    Jan 2020 — Jan 2021

    • Designed and implemented the foundational platform architecture, backend services, cloud infrastructure, and engineering tooling from the ground up.
    • Architected a flexible multi-tenant authorization framework with configurable access control for enterprise organizations.
    • Built development infrastructure including automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud deployment workflows.
    Node.jsTypeScriptPythonMicroservicesPostgreSQLAWSTerraformCI/CD

  4. Yad2

    Feb 2017 — Jan 2020

    Israel's largest online marketplace

    Engineering Manager

    Feb 2018 — Jan 2020

    • Grew the engineering organization from 2 to 13 engineers, leading hiring, onboarding, mentoring, career development, and performance management.
    • Led the architectural evolution of the platform to Node.js, Python, and microservices while balancing delivery, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
    • Partnered with product and business stakeholders to define priorities, roadmap execution, and technical strategy.
    • Built a culture of ownership through structured code reviews, architecture discussions, and knowledge sharing.

    Engineering Lead

    Aug 2017 — Feb 2018

    • Led day-to-day execution of the team while remaining an active contributor to critical platform development.
    • Coordinated technical delivery, mentored engineers, reviewed designs, and removed delivery risks across initiatives.

    Software Engineer

    Feb 2017 — Aug 2017

    • Designed backend services powering fraud detection, full-text search, media management, and A/B testing for millions of marketplace users.
    Node.jsPythonMicroservicesElasticsearchRedisMongoDBDockerA/B Testing

  5. Amdocs

    Mar 2014 — Feb 2017

    Telecommunications software

    Software Engineer

    Mar 2014 — Feb 2017

    • Developed enterprise-grade software powering large-scale telecommunications platforms used by global customers.
    • Contributed to complex distributed systems with an emphasis on reliability and long-term maintainability.
    JavaEnterprise SystemsDistributed Systems

Skills

Technical expertise

Architecture

System DesignDistributed SystemsEvent-Driven ArchitectureMicroservicesCloud-Native PlatformsAPI DesignDomain-Driven DesignPlatform EngineeringScalability & ReliabilityPerformance Engineering

Backend

Node.jsTypeScriptJavaScriptPythonNestJSExpressGraphQLRESTKafkaNATSRabbitMQ

Frontend

ReactNext.jsVueAngularMicro-FrontendsWeb Components

Data & AI

PostgreSQLMongoDBDynamoDBRedisElasticsearchPandasScikit-learnTensorFlowRAGAgentic AI

Cloud & DevOps

AWSGCPKubernetesDockerTerraformArgoCDServerlessCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkins

Leadership

Engineering ManagementHiring & OnboardingMentoring & Career DevelopmentTechnical StrategyArchitecture ReviewsCross-functional LeadershipStakeholder Management

Education

Education