Parham Doustdar

Director of Engineering

Netherlands15 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led the Product Accessibility team at Booking.com.
Created Shipper, an open-source Kubernetes deployment tool.
Improved code quality and uptime at TENA.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Engineering Manager with strong expertise in accessibility and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

AccessibilityTeam ManagementSoftware DevelopmentPhpTechnical WritingApi DevelopmentWeb Development

Other Skills

360 FeedbackAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementApacheCoachingCode QualityGitGoGolangJavaScriptKubernetesLeadershipLinuxMVCMentoring

About

I help inclusive leaders to accomplish their vision of making a more inclusive product, workplace, or world. At work, I'm leading a team that is making Booking accessible by everyone, regardless of their needs.

Experience

Booking.com

2 roles

Engineering Manager, Product Accessibility

Promoted

Jun 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · Amsterdam

I've been leading the Product Accessibility team, which aims to improve accessibility across Booking for all users

AccessibilityTeam ManagementAgile Project Management

Team lead & developer

Sep 2016 – Jun 2021 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Amsterdam

I've been a team lead and member in the deployment team that came up with and created Shipper, which is Booking.com's open-source project to make rolling out a multi-cluster application on Kubernetes an enjoyable experience. It has been the software used to roll out applications to the on-prem and cloud since 2018.

KubernetesSoftware DevelopmentTeam Management

Sitepoint

Author

Jan 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

At SitePoint, I wrote articles for the PHP channel and reviewed articles sent by other authors, as part of SitePoint's ongoing peer review process. My article, Re-introducing PDO, was one of the most-visited articles on Sitepoint and was later re-published in the book called "Better PHP Development" by O'Reilly Media.

PHPTechnical Writing

Tena

PHP Programmer

Apr 2014 – Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Tehran

Rewrote legacy applications with more business functionality and higher code quality
Proposed, designed, and lead the creation of a monitoring system to improve transparency across the company and guide business decisions
Introduced and implemented the latest industry standards in code quality, which increased uptime and reliability compared to other competitors
Proposed, introduced and implemented a fully service-oriented infrastructure from the ground up
Interviewed and on-boarded new team members, and helped the team become more homogenized

PHPSoftware DevelopmentCode Quality

Business-x

PHP Developer and Team Lead

Mar 2013 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Tehran

Business-X is a great start-up with big ambitions. I was one of the very first employees recruited into the company, and my responsibilities included:
Create and manage processes and workflows
Create low-level APIs and libraries for use by other layers of the application
Use the Facebook graph API through insights and publishing content
Manage and ensure delivery of one of the three core values the application offers
Train the team in utilizing PHP and to perform well after my departure from the company

PHPAPI Development

Smartt

Web Developer, SEO Specialist

Jun 2010 – Mar 2013 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Tehran

Worked on developing www.connectthedoc.com, which aims to connect patients with doctors and clinics. I was a part of the team which talked to the founders about their needs, turned those needs into specifications, and implemented the changes, shipping them into production.
Worked on CheetahWorks, an internal application to coordinate the multiple on-site and remote teams that worked at Smartt. With Smartt being one of the advocates of an agile methodology for developers, CheetahWorks was one of the integral parts of the company culture.

Web DevelopmentSEO