In the current role leading the incubation, development and standardization for new CSS and DOM APIs in Chromium web platform for Composition, Animations and Input.
As part of the role, collaborated and co-lead engineering teams in Microsoft Edge as well as deeply collaborated and co-engineered web apps innovations in Office Online, Bing and Windows.
Few examples of new APIs, tools and libraries: Dual-Screen devices CSS, script APIs, Emulator, Polyfills; spec-compliant ScrollTimeline polyfill; spec-compliant MediaRecorder API shim for EdgeHTML.
Represented Microsoft and drove APIs standardization in various W3C working groups such as CSSWG and Second-screen CG & WG.
Led the UI development for the majority of Qantas Frequent Flyers account pages, improving the web experience for our 11 million customers.
Proposed and prototyped the usage of Preact and demonstrated impressive results which led to choosing Preact to power major Qanats components.
Led the team who designed and built a medium scale, high traffic CMS based web application brought in-house from MasterCard, a global Qantas partner.
Played a key role in the development of responsive, printable and themable data visualization UI components for a reporting platform incorporating KPIs and other metrics relevant to banks on systems that cater to over 16,000 frontline staff.
Carried responsibility for performance tuning at numerous stages and was accountable for the transition from ES5 to ES6.
Led the team in developing the Servian Intelligent Profiler.
Enforced superior development standards and used AngularJS / Javascript in the front-end of the product.
Collaborated extensively and contributed substantially to research projects and mathematical requirements.
Developed and delivered tailor-made solutions covering web development and cloud services for industries like: real estate and car rental, online magazines, and others.
Worked with the front-end team and utilized AngularJS in creating the Yatango Mobile website.
Co-developed the Yatango e-commerce platform User Interface.
Collaborated closely with the Marketing and Design teams in adding new features to the startup's web applications and websites in both Mobile and Shopping verticals.
Utilized standard-compliant HTML, CSS and JavaScript in building high-profile websites and web applications viewed by millions each day for well-known creative agencies including Leo Burnett Dubai and YnR Jordan and brands such as Cadillac MENA, McDonald's Arabia, Dubai International Film Festival and Mr Chips Tortilla.
Carried responsibility for implementing cross-browser LTR, RTL and responsive layouts supporting English and Arabic languages as well as phones, tablets and PCs.
Technical reviewer for multiple Chromium Dev Channel case studies such as A Pinterest Progressive Web App Performance Case Study and A React And Preact Progressive Web App Performance Case Study: Treebo.
Swipe Views with CSS Snap Points: Building a More Efficient Mobile Web Navigation (40k views)
Preact meets CMS: Building Lightweight Portable Widget Components (4.1k views)
University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) - 2017
Achieved High Distinction for my final project work on Bilateral Multi-Perspective Matching for Natural Language Sentences in NLP.
University of Kalamoon - 2011
Syrian National Award - 2007
Syrian National Award - 1999 & 2000
JavaScript, Go, Python, React, NodeJS, Webpack, REST, CSS3, PHP, C, C#, Bash.
Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Linux, PL/Sql, PostgreSQL, MySQL.
Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch.
My contact information and references to managers and senior coworkers are available upon request. Please contact me on zouhir@zouhir.org