Khalaf Abd

Software Engineer @Iress

Cheltenham, GB

Worked across three areas: Mortgages (MSO), Sourcing, and Trading.Mortgage & Insurance Systems (MSO)- Added new features to large AngularJS + ASP.NET system- Helped with migration from.NET Framework to.NET Core- Wrote UI tests using Cypress and backend tests using NUnit/xUnit- Created and updated full end-to-end test scenarios in TestRail- Used Jira, Slack, Datadog, and TeamCity for daily workSourcing Team- Supported a legacy system written in Visual Basic- Improved code clarity, fixed long-standing issues, and refactored legacy modulesTrading SystemsBifrost Project (gRPC API Translator |.NET 6)- Built a high-performance gRPC API to translate between IRESS format and protobuf format- Implemented live streaming, request/response, and failover logic using Polly- Used Mediator pattern to keep data conversion modules clean and separate- Created performance tests and soak tests to prove stability under heavy load- Built Datadog dashboards for logs, pod health, errors, and connection metrics- Worked with AWS services: MSK, Kubernetes pods, Secrets ManagerEmporium Project (Trading UI)- Built trading UI components (OrderBook & TradeBook) with React + TypeScript + AntDesign- Built BFF (Backend for Frontend) using.NET 8, OData, Kafka, gRPC, SSE, and REST- Added integration tests and created stubs to mock APIs- Deployed using Buildkite to AWS Kubernetes (Staging, UAT, Production)- Added Datadog alerts, logs, and dashboards for monitoring

Aleppo University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Informatics Engineering / Software Engineering