Ziad Khouri

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ABOUT ZIAD KHOURI

My track record demonstrates an ability to combine commercial priority and technical expertise with a passion for engineering culture and strategic business value. These qualities, supported by proven problem-solving and people skills, make for an approachable and expert leader. My strengths as a CTO are founded on over 25 years of experience building exceptional engineering teams and implementing grassroots Agile transformation, as well as designing and delivering scalable commercial SaaS platforms, and high-performance trading systems for the financial sector.Key Knowledge and Skills- Business Leadership: C-level vision, strategy, and execution including mergers and acquisitions. Customer and stakeholder management (15+ years)- People Leadership: team building, mentoring, engineering culture, resourcing and management (20+ years)- Technical Leadership: scalable technology and ROI. Enterprise software architecture and development both Agile and Waterfall.(20+ years)- Thought Leadership: instilling best practice including TDD, KISS, DRY, YAGNI, and Patterns (20+ years)- Team Leadership: ownership of teams, roadmaps and backlogs through discovery, planning and delivery- Software Engineering (web): distributed scalable real-time systems including microservices, fullstack applications, and RESTful API services (20+ years)- Software Engineering (desktop): low latency electronic trading systems for financial markets (15+ years)- DevOps: 12-factor software architecture for Cloud migration and high availability (10+ years)Platform Engineering: designing developer toolchains, environments and CI/CD pipelines (15+ years)- Languages: C/C++, Javascript (including Node.js, React/Redux), PHP (Laravel), Java, SQL (20+ years)