Muktar Sayed Saleh

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Good day!
my name is Muktar Sayed Saleh, I am 31 years old, married and father of two kids (Omar and Furat).
My relationship with writing has started since my very early childhood more than 15 years ago, that time I had started writing computer software as a hobby, then my hobby has been refined by my practical experience and subsequent academic studies which have turned me into a full time software engineer.

I have a bachelor's degree in computer & informatics engineering from SIUST and a master's degree in web technologies from SVU, and in addition I am also certified AWS developer & GCP Cloud engineer.

I have written dozens of software applications for most of platforms and environments before focusing in my recent years on web field and its applications, I have worked for many years with clients directly during my freelance work, or indirectly while working in companies where I have played most of the roles that software engineers typically play from the base of pyramid as a trainee programmer up to its summit as Executive Manager, and currently I am a tech lead in one of leading companies in Kuala Lumpur.

I am also the CEO & Co founder of Monjz Inc, a freelancer marketplace for Arabic languange speakers.

Another aspect of my relationship was written when I was discovered by my literary talent 10 years ago, starting from that day I am writing "poems" when I want to take a short rest of writing "software". I have written 2 published poetry books in addition many poetic texts and also I have won first prize in several prestigious local and Arab literary awards. Among them were the Sharjah Prize for Arab Creativity (UAE - 2011), Al-Imam University Poetry Prize (Saudi Arabia - 2016) and the Dr. Suad Al Sabah Award for Intellectual and Literary Creativity (Kuwait - 2017), in addition to publishing a collection of web development related e-books.

So, long story short: "Writing" is the word that summarize my whole life!
it would be my pleasure if you decided to hire me for your company or for your next project as a freelancer.

My Skills Values

Cloud Computing
- AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean, and Heroko.
  94%
Programming Languages
- Python, PHP, JavaScript (node.js), C#, VB.net, Classic VB, and shell scripting.
  95%
Full-Stack Capabilities
- Frameworks: Django, express.js, Laravel, and Codeigniter.
  98%
- Frontend technologies: HTML 5 & CSS 3, jQuery, Bootstrap, Angular.js, React.js.
  85%
- Good knowledge of popular CSMs like WordPress, Joomla ..etc.
  75%
- Social media & API integration.
  90%
- Hybrid Mobile Development: Cordova & PhoneGap Build.
  85%
DevOps
- Linux (Ubuntu, Centos, and Redhat), Windows, and Mac OS.
  90%
- Nginx, Apache, and IIS.
  90%
- Kubernetes, Docker, and Dokku.
  96%
- IaC (Terraform and Ansible).
  95%
Databases
- Relational: ▪ PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, and SQL Server.
  90%
- NoSQL: ▪ DynamoDB, Mongo DB, BigQuery.
  82%
- XML Native Databases: ▪ Sedna DB.
  70%
Other Skills
- git & svn.
  99%
- Leadership
  95%
- Communication skills
  99%
- Agile & Scrum methodologies
  99%

10+ Years Experience

April 2018 - PresentJobStreet.com sdn. bhd. - SEEK Asia
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia

Software Engineer

Responsibilities are confidential during contract period

December 2015 - March 2018Tigerlab Sdn. Bhd.
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Senior Web Developer

Designing and implementing most of the complex features of Tigerlab’s main product (Insurance Solution) using Python Django including:

RESTful APIs.
Data migration tools & scripts to help new clients moving their existing data from old systems into ours.
Mobile claim processing feature.
Bulk policies uploading feature.
Salesforce CRM integration.
Monthly bordereau generator.
Motor insurance process.
Item Insurance process.
Wallet insurance process.
Cashless PA insurance process.
CSV, PDF, XML, JSON exporting features.
CMS Features.
Documentation & application support features.
Insurance system unit tests.

Working with team to support multiple Malaysian and overseas clients of Tigerlab’s Insurance system.
Working with team to setup and administrate Tigerlab’s cloud-based infrastructure using AWS.

April 2015 - November 2015TwitterJaya Sdn. Bhd.
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Analyst Developer

Focusing mainly on analyzing, designing, and developing back-end APIs and engines for company client's campaigns and internal projects.
Analyzing and implementing most of new web apps and websites for company customers using most of web stack technologies.
Working with team to enhance existing platforms for company.
Working with team to do the front-end development for most of the new campaigns for company clients.
Scrum master.

2013-2015Syrian International for Services and Technologies
Damascus - Syria

Executive Manager

Analyzing, Designing, and implementing all S.I.S.T. e-payment systems for kiosk machines from both client side and server side that is listed below:

The main S.I.S.T. e-payment system of kiosk machines and its integration with commercial bank of Syria APIs and web services – I used ASP.NET with SQL Server data base in server side with the XML related languages for parsing Commercial Bank of Syria APIs responses and used C# in client side as a container of a web GUI to give JavaScript of UI the ability to deal with kiosk machine hardware using COM+ technology.
S.I.S.T. kiosk machines monitoring system in order to monitor the hardware and software status of every single kiosk machine remotely – I used .NET framework TCP/IP and Socket in client side and ASP.net in server side and integrate it with the previous mentioned e-payment system.
S.I.S.T. reporting systems in order to supply central bank of Syria with requested reports and statistics every month,automatic matching with commercial bank of Syria daily reports, and in order to supply the management with the needed reports and statistics about the projectbase with giving management the ability to export system reports as excel files – I used ASP.NET and SQL Server data base for this project.
S.IS.T. advertisements manager system which allow the team to publish and manage advertisements of kiosk machines which are playing on the additional screen of kiosk machine (each kiosk comes with two screen one used for e-payment system and the other for advertisements) – I used .NET framework TCP/IP for communication between server and client and used HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and JavaScript to develop the client side viewer.
Recruitment and training all members of technical staff of e-payment project and oversee the technical work.
My administrative responsibilities assigned later to an Administrative IT Manager in order to keep me focusing in the technical side of the project.

2011-2013Ajram Tech.
Damascus - Syria

Senior Web Developer

Working with team members to analyze and design the required systems and applications and their databases.
Working with mobile developing team to develop cross-platform mobile applications using Cordova PhoneGap framework.
Extending PHP CodeIgniterframework in order to give it the ability of auto generating of CRUD pages of well-known data base table in order to speed the work.
Giving the existing web apps the ability to get benefit from social media APIs – I have worked with Facebook APIs, Twitter APIs, Linkedin APIs, and Instagram APIs.
Working with web designers to develop new front-end UIs and enhance existing UIs with AJAX capabilities.
Working with web designers to give the existing web apps responsive web design – I used jQuery mobile and Bootstrap and Yahoo UI framework.
Writing the back-end code files for each most of the systems which team have analyzed before.
Research and development of the big data related systems.
Doing research about XML native databases and the ability of moving Ajram-Tech. systemsinto Sedna XML-native database.

2002 - 2011 Self-employed

Freelance developer

Implementing all projects that are listed on "Projects" section with implementation date before 2012 as below:
- Many of ERP systems using vb6 and access database (like Pharmacy 2007).
- Many of ERP systems using .NET framework and SQL Server database (like Al-Mukhtar car rental system).
- Network management system using VB6 Socket / TCP (Al-Mukhtar network management system).
- 1st compiler in the world for Arabic poetry which can be used to converting the written Arabic sentences into its spoken case using linguistic methods (Al-Faraheedyproject).
- 1st automatic diacritization system for Arabic language in the world using linguistic and statistical methods(Al-Du2alee project).
Publishing many of these systems for free in the open source community (mentioned later in projects section).
Writing and translating many technical articles about VB6 and .NET framework and publishing it in the Arabic forums since 2002 (member of Arab team 2000 forum since 2002 and member of vb4arab forum since 2003).

Mukhtar is very result oriented, fast and understands the requirements for the projects quickly. It was a real pleasure working with him, as I could always rely on his promise to deliver the products on time with high quality. He has great experience in developing web based applications, both backend and frontend. I would definitely recommend him to anyone.

Daler Kendzhaev, CTO at Twitterjaya

I have had the chance to teach Mukhtar. Although it was for a short period, still he was able to show he is a hard worker, committed highly to his job, flexible, honest, and eager to improvement. As a team member, Mukhtar is a collaborative person, and willing always to help his mates

Rafat Abu Khair, Master in Software Engineering

Muktar is a highly motivated person, I have dealt with him while participating in the Syrian Olympiad for Informatics SOI contest, and other contests, he was very active, and very helpful, we are close friends since that time, and he is the one to counsel with for many of the business matters!

Mohamed Sakher Sawan, Lead Software Engineer

I had the honor to work with Muktar for almost 6 months, but as I was managing his team, I also learned a lot from him. Muktar has an outstanding ambition to leave his fingerprint in the IT world in addition to his poetry passion, and his life goal to make it easier for everyone to understand and love poetry. Muktar is the founder of the Faraheedy project which merged his ambition and his passion together. In short, Muktar is a great man with all the skills that an employer might need in his team.

Mamdouh AlRamadan,Executive manager at Ajram-tech.

Muktar is not only a great expert in his field capable of solving amazing programming puzzles (Python, API and more) but also amazing human being that is a pleasure to be around - always humble and helpful.

Uldis Zalcmanis, C.O.O. at tigerlab Sdn Bhd

Muktar is a very bright, sincere and a personable individual. He is highly self-motivated, efficient, independent and well capable of delivering results based on deadlines, his ability to quickly learn and take on new responsibilities added tremendous value to our company, He learned new advancements made in Web Applications promptly and promoted them in his daily work, he welcomes leadership opportunities and meets his deadlines on time. He likes to keep a friendly yet professional attitude among his co-workers to get the best results. Muktar is an asset to any company that hires him and it gives me great pleasure recommending him to any Company

Tobias Bergmann, CEO, Tigerlab

Educational Value