Thaer Aldwaik

About Thaer Aldwaik

I’m a Senior Backend Software Engineer with broad experience across backend systems, cloud infrastructure, identity & access management, and platform engineering. I work on systems where scale, security, and reliability are non-negotiable, and where small architectural decisions can have long-term impact.My work spans distributed backend services, authentication and authorization flows (SSO, OIDC), cloud-native deployments, and CI/CD pipelines. I’ve spent significant time integrating and migrating complex systems, improving platform stability, and designing solutions that balance correctness, performance, and maintainability.I’m comfortable operating across the stack when needed — from backend application code to infrastructure, deployment automation, and operational concerns. I value pragmatic engineering: understanding the real problem, anticipating edge cases, and building solutions that teams can confidently operate and evolve.I care deeply about code quality, system behavior under failure, and long-term ownership. I’m known for thinking beyond the “happy path” and for questioning assumptions when reliability or security is at stake.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Siteimprove

   Dec 2023 — Present · WA, US

   Designed and maintained identity and authentication services powering OAuth 2 flows across multiple applications.* Contributed to FedRAMP readiness initiatives* Built and improved CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.* Worked with Kubernetes and AWS services to deploy and operate scalable, secure backend systems.* Implemented session handling logic to support complex authentication and access scenarios.* Collaborated closely with platform, security, and infrastructure teams to align with compliance and architecture standards.

Education

• Al Balqa'a Applied University

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering

  2009 — 2013

Skills

• Yii Framework
• Python
• Amazon Sqs
• Ccna
• Scrum Methodology
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Memcached
• Redis
• Json
• Css
• Microservices
• Maven
• Sql
• Linux
• Html5
• Html
• Ubuntu
• Javascript
• Solr
• Angularjs
• Composer
• Jquery
• Activemq
• Mysqli
• Java Jersey
• Mongodb
• Laravel
• Node.js
• Mysql
• Php
• Design Patterns
• Web Development
• C++
• Java
• Oop
• Amazon Dynamodb
• Git
• Ajax