Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Detroit Metropolitan Area

• As a Director of Engineering, I lead and mentor high-performing teams across backend, frontend, mobile, and Quality Assurance. I champion the strategic integration of AI-powered tools and intelligent automation to enhance developer productivity and streamline the entire software development lifecycle. My focus is on unifying cross-functional disciplines to not only deliver robust, scalable software but to do so with increased velocity and engineering precision.
• Directed the end-to-end software development lifecycle, optimizing workflows and technical delivery through the strategic adoption of AI-driven development tools.
• Championed and implemented a strategy to integrate AI tools (e.g., generative AI for code, AI-assisted testing) which accelerated project timelines and boosted developer productivity.
• Spearheaded technical strategy and architectural vision, leveraging AI-powered analytics to improve decision-making and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Enhanced the QA framework by integrating AI for automated test generation and anomaly detection, significantly improving product quality and reducing post-release defects.
• Led, mentored, and scaled cross-functional engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation by encouraging the adoption of AI to solve complex technical challenges.

May 2023 – May 2025 · 2 yrs · Detroit Metropolitan Area

• Leading innovative software development initiatives at Circle K, driving our global merchandising, pricing, and promotions strategies. Combining technical expertise with strategic thinking to deliver high-impact solutions across international markets.
• Key Achievements:
• Lead multinational development teams (US, Canada, Poland), fostering collaboration in creating global web applications.
• Reduced development costs by 35% through strategic resource allocation and efficient agile workflows.
• Integrated Low/No code tools, cutting application development costs by 80% while maintaining quality.
• Implemented AI and LLM technologies, improving code quality and reducing time-to-market.
• Established mentorship programs and workshops, reducing team turnover by 40%.
• My approach aligns cutting-edge technology with business objectives, leveraging AI and LLMs to enhance development efficiency and deliver superior products. Passionate about pushing boundaries in retail technology and software development.
• Open to connecting with fellow tech leaders, retail innovators, and AI enthusiasts for collaborations and knowledge sharing.
• #SoftwareEngineering #AI #MachineLearning #AgileMethodologies #Leadership

May 2019 – Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Greater Detroit Area

• I founded YafaTech with the goal of locally and globally helping companies design and implement reliable and secure software.

May 2019 – Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Greater Detroit Area

• 𝐖𝐞𝐛 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐬
• Designing and implementing for scalable back end and front-end web applications and API services.
• 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬
• Creating for Microservices architecture and migrating apps to cloud services like AWS and Azure.
• 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠
• Test Driven Development (TDD) and creating for Unit, integration, and acceptance automated test cases.
• 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧
• SQL and NoSQL database design, optimization, monitoring, and scalability solutions.
• 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐬
• Legacy apps support, reduce down times, optimize performance, and migrate to modern services.

Dec 2014 – May 2019 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Greater Detroit Area

• Technical coaching for the team to adapt agile methodologies, coding best practices, and applying the principles to other teams in the company.
• Managing a team of backend and frontend developers; to design and implement backend REST web services, and a single page front end application.
• Designing and implementing REST API services using Microservice Architecture, to achieve secure, scalable, fault tolerant solutions.
• Evaluated and selected the technology stack, libraries, and build tools.
• Led a company-wide project to migrate data sets from SQL databases to MongoDB, to reduce costs and improve performance.
• Worked with product managers to define the requirements, architecting for solutions, coding, testing, and development processes enhancements.
• Systems monitoring and applications performance analysis and fine tuning by using tools like Dripstat, DataDog, and MongoDB Cloud Manager.
• Mentoring for other team members to help them grow technically and professionally.
• Worked closely with the IT department to automate DevOps operations, benchmarking servers' performance, and to pick optimal hardware.

Feb 2014 – Nov 2014 · 9 mos · Greater Detroit Area

• Led a team of developers to design and implement Java web application FCA Legal Department, to request and track vehicles inspection.
• Used JEE and DB2 at the backend, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and jQuery for the front end.

Dec 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 mo

• Implementing for backend REST web application and the front-end application to be used by executives.
• Used Spring for the backend, backbone for the front-end development.

Apr 2013 – Oct 2013 · 6 mos · Greater Detroit Area

• Leading software development to design and implement reliable SOAP Web Services and Java Web applications.
• Design for frameworks to apply application changes at run time, without the need to redeploy the code or to restart the server.
• Worked on upgrading an old system to use best OOP principles, design patterns, and best practices.
• Responsible for designing DB2 tables, and creating SQL data access queries, and Java data access programs.
• Java applications testing and performance tuning by using Jtest tool.
• Analytical review of logs and system performance.
• Participated in applications requirements gathering meetings and setting up development plans
• Using IRAD, IBM WebSphere, Dimensions, DB2, and SOAP UI to design and maintain applications.

Nov 2007 – Mar 2013 · 5 yrs 4 mos

• Responsible for developing enterprise WEB applications, by using Java EE and DB2.
• Managing for software development and data analysis projects
• Conducting special data studies and generating reports by creating data extracts programs.
• Applications testing and fine tuning.
• Developed a Java Web application for the Top Care department, to track and manage top consumers complaints.
• Responsible for attending the NHTSA investigations meetings and generating the response files.
• Creating system documentation.