Issam Maher R.

Senior Software Engineer & Technology Consultant · Part-time · Syria (remote from Riyadh)

• Led the architecture and delivery of an 8-service .NET 10 microservices backend (46 API endpoints, 28 message contracts, 10-container Docker setup), matching each service's pattern to its complexity: Clean Architecture + CQRS for core domains, Web API or Minimal APIs for simpler ones. Database-per-service on EF Core and SQL Server.
• Built event-driven integration with MassTransit and RabbitMQ, using a transactional outbox and state-machine sagas for multi-step workflows. Self-hosted OAuth2/OpenID Connect with OpenIddict.
• Replaced commercially licensed libraries (MediatR, AutoMapper, Duende IdentityServer) with a lightweight in-house CQRS dispatcher and permissive alternatives, removing future licence costs.
• Delivered 3 products across 6 codebases in about 10 weeks on one shared stack: 3 Next.js 16 / React 19 web apps (68 pages) with full Arabic RTL support, and 2 Flutter mobile apps (27 screens) on a versioned mobile API.
• Built in observability and testing from day one: OpenTelemetry, correlation IDs, health checks, xUnit, end-to-end smoke tests through the full saga, Playwright, Storybook + MSW.
• As technology consultant, defined the company's reference stack and engineering standards, recorded decisions as ADRs, audited dependency licences, reviewed code, mentored engineers and scoped work with stakeholders.

Software Engineer · Full-time · Saudi Arabia

• Grew from a front-end role into senior, full-stack ownership of the company's main web application, becoming its #1 contributor out of 18 engineers and the author of 210 of its 1,146 source files.
• Led technical meetings with major enterprise clients, including banks: clarified requirements, walked through integrations and agreed on solutions.
• Delivered complete payment features end to end, from UI flows and API integration to QA and release.
• Resolved hundreds of production issues across .NET and Spring Boot APIs, databases, the front end and CI/CD pipelines, using logs, monitoring and root-cause analysis to prevent regressions.
• Improved UX, UI consistency and QA practice across the platform; built reusable Next.js/React components with Chakra UI, TanStack Query and GraphQL.
• Contributed features and tests to the Spring Boot backend (Kotlin/Java, Spring Modulith), as its #3 contributor over the last 12 months.
• Worked with backend and DevOps teams to improve CI/CD reliability, deployment workflows and performance through caching, environment configuration and API response tuning.

Backend Developer Intern · Saudi Arabia

• Fixed bugs and improved performance in .NET services backed by SQL and NoSQL databases and REST APIs.

B.Sc. Computer Science, College of Computer and Information Sciences · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Graduation project: Mouid, a health recorder and AI health assistant. Grade: A+.

A hackathon focused on guarding and security technologies. Evaluated participating teams' technical solutions and received the Harasathon Shield in recognition of the contribution.

Member · Finance Department Leader · Club Headquarters Department Leader · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Active member of the university's student technology club.
• Led the club's Finance Department for one term, and later led the Club Headquarters Department.