Fadi Boulos

Founder

Balluna, Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon19 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder of an impact startup reducing brain drain in Lebanon.
  • Expert in connecting global tech companies with local talent.
  • Over 16 years of international experience in tech.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Tech industry leader focused on remote talent acquisition and team scaling.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical RecruitingBusiness Development

Other Skills

RemoteEthical LeadershipTalent ManagementStaff DevelopmentSalesDigital MediaAccount ManagementProject ManagementTeam ManagementIPTVTelecommunicationsMobile ApplicationsQoSManagementAndroid

About

Supportful helps global tech companies scale their teams with top Lebanese talent. Our goal is to help you grow while reducing costs and at the same time combat brain drain in Lebanon. We are an impact startup on a mission to keep young engineers in their hometowns and allow them to contribute to their local communities. HOW WE HELP - Pre-vetted, highly skilled engineers (including AI experts) who are also great communicators and are good cultural fits for your organization. - Our clients save an average of at least 50% vs. hiring in their own countries, enabling them to get more of the talent they need to rapidly scale. - No upfront fees, simple monthly pricing with 1/mo cancellation (if you’re not happy, get rid of us - no one has yet though!) - Expertise: Frontend, Backend, DevOps, Mobile, Machine Learning, Data Science, and QA. WHY SUPPORTFUL 1) Tech expertise: We're engineers, we get your needs 2) Transparent process: You choose your perfect match 3) Flexible arrangements: Our people align with your working hours 4) Rapid scale: We provide an initial candidate in just 3 working days & often build full teams in less than a month 5) Mission-driven: Supporting Lebanon's economy and keeping engineers in their communities 6) Always learning: We invest 50 hours annually in each engineer's upskilling. WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY "Supportful consistently provides high-quality candidates, carefully finding developers that meet our needs and fit our company culture." - Tom George, Director of Engineering, echo360 "They are essential to the success of our product." - Rachel, CPO ABOUT ME As Supportful's founder, I'm on a mission to reduce Lebanon's brain drain while connecting global tech with exceptional talent. With 16 years of international experience (UK, France, Lebanon), I bring a global perspective to our work. In my free time, I love reading books (mostly about history, philosophy, religion, and politics), and playing football (i.e. soccer if you’re American). Last but not least: I'm the happy father of 4 beautiful souls 👧🏻👦🏻👧🏻👧🏻 I love helping people! Book a free consultation call with me here: https://calendly.com/fadiboulos/30min

Experience

19 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Running remote

Community Member

May 2023Present · 3 yrs · Remote

  • Learning and growing with Running Remote, a global membership-based community for leaders of distributed companies.

Badassery

Member

May 2023Feb 2024 · 9 mos · Remote

  • Active member of this curated community for unconventional thought leaders. We are pushing boundaries, magnifying our influence, and creating the change we were meant to make.

Viaka

Member

Apr 2023Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Remote

  • Member of this global startup community for founders, investors, employees, and experts with a personal or professional connection to the MENA region.

Supportful

Founder & CEO

Apr 2021Present · 5 yrs 1 mo · Lebanon

  • Supportful is an impact startup on a mission to reduce the brain drain in Lebanon. We work with global tech startups looking to grow their team with skilled remote software engineers. We want young talents to stay in Lebanon and work from their hometowns, contributing to the development of the economy of the community they live in.​
  • Check out some of our clients' testimonials here: https://www.supportful.world
RemoteEthical LeadershipTalent ManagementTechnical RecruitingStaff DevelopmentBusiness Development+5

Born interactive

Business Director

Dec 2015Apr 2022 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Lebanon

  • Business Lead on Digital in charge of:
  • Growing the company’s account portfolio.
  • Business development with a focus on international clients.
  • Creating new offerings according to the market needs and challenges.
  • Identifying strategic business opportunities
  • Handling RFPs issued by local and international organizations
Business DevelopmentAccount ManagementDigital Media

Setelia

2 roles

Pre-Sales Manager

Sep 2013Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Worked on a wide range of telecoms, web and mobile app projects for prominent businesses in Lebanon and GCC:
  • Expanded customer base including prominent multinational companies (Air France, Diageo...).
  • Acted as clients' main contact to develop long-term relationships.
  • Prepared technical and commercial proposals.
  • Managed design and development team.

IT & Telecom Project Manager

Apr 2012Aug 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Worked as a Consultant for Orange's Devices Group.

Orange

Device Technology Manager

Apr 2012Aug 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · Paris Area, France

  • Orange TV Mobile Application Manager:
  • I liaise with developers, marketing and streaming platform teams to deliver this 1M-download app to Android and Windows Phone users in France, Spain and Poland.

Witbe

R&D Engineer

Mar 2010Mar 2012 · 2 yrs · Paris Area, France

  • Worked on IPTV Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) topics:
  • Developed a video traffic analyzer for IPTV and Video-on-Demand platforms.
  • Implemented international broadcasting standards (ISO 13818-1, ETSI TR 101290).
  • Created new KPIs that reflect both QoS and QoE.

Bt

Research engineer

Nov 2007Mar 2008 · 4 mos · Ipswich, United Kingdom

  • Investigated the perceptual effects of packet loss on H.264/AVC videos. Conducted two subjective video quality tests including more than 200 distorted videos. Developed a no-reference objective video quality metric.

University of nantes

Ph.D. candidate

Oct 2006Mar 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Nantes Area, France

  • My research topics included:
  • Improving the robustness of MPEG-4 video streams against packet losses.
  • Subjective video quality assessment.
  • Coupling network transmission errors to perceptual video quality at the receiving end.
  • Perception-oriented objective video quality metrics.

Jinny software

Software Engineer Intern

Aug 2005Aug 2005 · 0 mo · Lebanon

Polytech nantes

Master's Internship

Feb 2005Sep 2005 · 7 mos · Nantes Area, France

  • Developed an objective video quality metric for HDTV post-processing.

Education

Nantes Université

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) — Image & Video Communications

Jan 2006Jan 2009

Nantes Université

Master of Science (M.Sc.) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2005Jan 2006

Lebanese University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer & Communications Engineering

Jan 2001Jan 2006

College St Joseph - Antoura

Lebanese and French Baccalaureate

Jan 2001Present

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