Youssef Khalil
With over 7 years of experience in software development and leadership, I am a technical leader focused on building robust engineering teams and software.
My strong leadership skills enable me to manage cross-functional teams effectively while delivering prompt results through proactive communication.
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
- Full-stack Development with TypeScript, NestJS, Next.js, GraphQL
- DevOps & Infrastructure with Docker, Terraform, AWS: Spear...
- Full-stack Development with TypeScript, NestJS, Next.js, GraphQL
- DevOps & Infrastructure with Docker, Terraform, AWS: Spearheaded the optimisation of our CI/CD pipeline using CircleCI, Docker and Docker-compose, which accelerated deployment frequency by 50% and enhanced development experience. Tracked using DORA metrics.
- Testing: Initiated a culture of rigorous testing using Jest and Cypress and Chromatic. To battle technical debt and regressions. Used SonarCloud for accountability, visibility and standards setting.
- Crafting a Tech Roadmap with Team Buy-In: Led the discussion and creation of a comprehensive technical roadmap, aligning the team’s goals and finally conducting retro sessions to reflect, learn and adjust.
- Agile Practices and SOLID Principles: Advocated for Agile methodologies and SOLID principles, improving team collaboration and accelerating product delivery speed by 30%. Tracked using DORA metrics.
People
- Leadership: Led a distributed team of 20+ engineers, including two engineering managers and a tech lead that lead te...
People
- Leadership: Led a distributed team of 20+ engineers, including two engineering managers and a tech lead that lead teams of 5-8 engineers (frontend, backend &mobile).
- Develop & Promote: Hired, led and developed 3 senior engineers into leadership positions by providing regular feedback and aligning individual skills and growth areas with company needs and trajectory.
- Empower: Extended the engineering competency matrix to be more inclusive by having management and Individual contributor tracks for engineers to grow.
- Hire & Onboard: Standardised the hiring process across engineering teams and collaboratively maintained it with the team leads.
Tech
- Technical Strategic Impact: Initiated, planned, and supported a legacy codebase refactoring project by setting up strategy, metrics, and goals that increased test coverage from 20% to 70% and the maintainability score from D to B.
- Collaborate &Align Across Functions: Initiated and aligned product & engineering teams to have a recurring tech debt management strategy by allocating 20% of each sprint to technical debt.
- Engineering Best Practices: Led and collaborated with the team to adopt tools like CodeClimate and SonarCloud to define software quality acceptance criteria on each pull request. Kept our maintainability under 5 days and test coverage above 80%.
Product
- Collaborate &Align Across Functions: Led the re-org from functional teams into cross-functional teams forming a matrix organisation. Managed to increase alignment between product, engineers, and designers greatly and significantly reduced delivery time by 40-50%.
- Collaborate &Align Across Functions: Set annual hiring plans with the team leads and technical roadmaps with the tech leads in conjunction with the head of product in the context of cross-functional teams.