ABOUT

Lead developer with 10+ years of experience in Software Development, System Architecture, and IT Delivery. As a technical team leader, I have the experience of people management and I’m a practising advocate of Extreme Programming techniques. As an industry researcher, I have published and presented several academic papers related to IoT, BigData and Smart Home Automation. Aside from that, I‘m passionate about electronics and hardware control e.g. Arduino, EMS, robotics.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: Java7/8/11, Scala, Node.js, Unix/Linux Shell Scripting.
  • WEB: HTML5/ CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Typescript, ES6, XML/JSON/YML, Webpack.
  • WEB FRAMEWORKS: J2EE, MVC, Angular4, AngularJS, Spark, Thymeleaf.
  • FRAMEWORKS & DEPENDENCIES: Hibernate, Spring, jQuery, migrate-mongo, Liquibase.
  • CLOUD:AWS, Microservices, Spring Cloud, RabbitMQ, Kafka.
  • UNIT TESTS: JUnit, Mockito, Gherkin – Cucumber, Jasmine, Karma, Mocha.
  • WEB SERVICES: REST/SOAP, JMS.
  • APPLICATION SERVERS & TOOLS: Apache Tomcat 7, Glassfish, WebLogic, Docker, Kubernetes.
  • PRACTICES: Continuous Integration, Agile: Kanban, Waterfall, PMO, Certified SCRUM Master.
  • DBMS & NoSQL: MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, Neo4j, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Certified MongoDB, Sybase
  • DEVELOPMENT TOOLS: Jira, confluence, Maven, Confluence, Ant, Git/Github/GitLab/Jenkins/TFS/bitbucket.
  • GSM: IN Charging System (Ericsson & Siemens), IVR (Avaya & Huawei)/call flow design, CSDB.
  • ELECTRONICS: Arduino coding, AVR coding, Spice/MATLAB/Assembly, Raspberry PI.

Experience

  • 10+ years of experience in Software Development, Telecom and IT Delivery.
  • 4+ years of PMO experience (Project Management).
  • 8+ years of People Management as a Tech Lead from 2009 to 2016.
  • XP Techniques including TDD, BDD & Pair Programming.

0

Projects

0

Certifications

0

Awards

0

Courses

0

Publications

0

Robotics projects

CERTIFICATES


AWARDS

  • Opencast Star Award 2018: Nominated by Opencast Software's Staff Survey for being funny, touching and puts the smiles when the going is tough.
  • Best Achiever Champion 2015: By Vodafone Egypt for creatively developing a 'Service Impact Application' enabling real-time service impact identification for Telecom Access and Backhaul network changes.
  • NIM Project Contribution 2015: For consultancy of expertise (on a project out of my scope) in the architecture integration during the Ericsson Network Inventory Management (NIM) project.
  • Super Trooper 2014: For outstanding support in Vodafone Egypt R&D (Research and Development) activities of FY13/14.
  • Super Trooper 2012: For the initiative and development the 'Dual-SIM Analyzer' application to identify potential churn customers (those considering changing their service provider) and for enabling their retention.
  • Best In Class 2010: For a creative idea and implementation of an in-house software application to monitor the SMS trend per customer then alter the Fraud Team of any abnormal customer behaviour that could lead to fraud cases, which protected a significant portion of Vodafone Egypt's SMS revenue.
  • Ana Vodafone 2009: Vodafone Global Award celebrating the top 50 high performers embodying the 'Vodafone Way'. Awarded for innovating (idea, design, implementation and rolling-out) an alternative software solution (SULSAT) to Ericsson's Charging Customer Care Application (MINSAT).
  • Ana Innovative 2008: For the creative idea and implementation of the 'Linker Call-Flow' to better utilize the network hardware resources by consolidating IVR ports and therefore increasing their capacity extensively. Not only did this project prove to save HW resources and network capacity, but it also saved significant time and effort of configuration and eventually lots of money.

Work History

Feb 2023 Feb 2024 LEAD SOFTWARE DEVELOPER PUROLATOR, MISSISSAUGA, CANADA
Feb 2022 Feb 2023 SENIOR SOFTWARE SPECIALIST IRDETO, OTTAWA, CANADA
Feb 2022 Aug 2022 SENIOR SOFTWARE SPECIALIST IMPROVING CORPORATION, CALGARY, CANADA
Feb 2021 Aug 2021 SENIOR SOFTWARE SPECIALIST NOKIA CORPORATION, OTTAWA, CANADA
Oct 2019 Feb 2021 SENIOR TECH SPECIALIST RIBBON COMMUNICATIONS, OTTAWA, CANADA
Jul 2019 Oct 2019 SOFTWARE ENGINEER CISCO SYSTEMS, OTTAWA, CANADA
Nov 2016 JUL 2019 LEAD DEVELOPER OPENCAST SOFTWARE, NEWCASTLE, UK
Apr 2016 Nov 2016 SR SOFTWARE ENGINEER COSTAIN, BRISTOL, UK
Feb 2009 Mar 2016 TECHNICAL TEAM LEADER VODAFONE TELECOM SERVICES, GIZA, EGYPT
Mar 2006 Feb 2009 SR SOFTWARE ENGINEER VODAFONE TELECOM SERVICES, GIZA, EGYPT
Nov 2004 Mar 2006 IN SPECIALIST SIEMENS, GIZA, EGYPT

Click any of the below boxes for more details on work history.

Purolator

LEAD SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

PUROLATOR, MISSISSAUGA, CANADA

View more
Irdeto

SENIOR SOFTWARE SPECIALIST

IRDETO, OTTAWA, CANADA

View more
Improving

SENIOR SOFTWARE SPECIALIST

IMPROVING CORPORATION, CALGARY, CANADA

View more
Nokia

SENIOR SOFTWARE SPECIALIST

NOKIA CORPORATION, OTTAWA, CANADA

View more
Ribbon

SENIOR TECH SPECIALIST

RIBBON COMMUNICATIONS, OTTAWA, CANADA

View more
Cisco

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

CISCO SYSTEMS, OTTAWA, CANADA

View more
Sage

LEAD DEVELOPER

CONSULTANT AT SAGE
FROM OPENCAST SOFTWARE, NEWCASTLE, UK

View more
NHS

LEAD DEVELOPER

CONSULTANT AT NHS BSA
FROM OPENCAST SOFTWARE, NEWCASTLE, UK

View more
lhasa

LEAD DEVELOPER

CONSULTANT AT LHASA
FROM OPENCAST SOFTWARE, NEWCASTLE, UK

View more
opencast

LEAD DEVELOPER

OPENCAST SOFTWARE, NEWCASTLE, UK

View more
costain

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

COSTAIN, BRISTOL, UK

View more
vodafone

TECHNICAL TEAM LEADER, CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE (CE) DEPT.

VODAFONE TELECOM SERVICES, GIZA, EGYPT

View more
siemens

IN SPECIALIST

SIEMENS, GIZA, EGYPT

View more

Academic contributions

Actively looking into the latest technologies with particular research interest in IoT, BigData and Smart Home Automation.
Visit Google Scholar author page for the latest list of publications.  

Contact

Contact Details

+1 (819) 743 7979

mohamed.sultan1581@gmail.com