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Mhamad El Itawi

Backend Tech Lead & Solutions Architect · Beirut, Lebanon · [email protected] · +961 70 20 29 98

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Summary

Tech Lead and Senior Backend Engineer with 9+ years of experience building and scaling high-traffic marketplaces and cloud-native systems. Specialized in backend architecture, cloud cost optimization, distributed systems, and leading cross-functional engineering teams. Proven record of delivering scalable platforms, reducing infrastructure costs, and owning systems end-to-end in production.

Experience

Backend Tech Lead

LYXA · Lebanon (remote)
Jan 2026 – Present
  • Lead the backend team for a grocery and food-delivery platform, driving architecture decisions and ensuring high-quality delivery across services.
  • Contributed to the safe transition from a monolithic architecture to microservices (V2), improving scalability and system modularity.
  • Optimized multiple APIs, improving response times by up to 30× and overall system performance.
  • Conduct code and architecture reviews to enforce best practices, maintain code quality and keep systems reliable through better logging and monitoring.
  • Introduced and executed a cost-optimization strategy that cut infrastructure spend by $72K per year.
  • Stack: TypeScript, MongoDB, GCP, Kubernetes, Redis, RabbitMQ.

Tech Lead / Senior Software Engineer

eddress · Lebanon (remote)
Jul 2023 – May 2026
  • Led the backend and integration teams for a marketplace and delivery-management system.
  • Reduced infrastructure and hosting costs by $120K+ per year.
  • Designed, implemented and maintained 20+ third-party integrations (payments, logistics, messaging, external services).
  • Oversaw the cloud migration from GCP to AWS in collaboration with an external partner.
  • Optimized backend services to reduce resource usage and improve scalability; refactored core modules for performance, maintainability and reliability, with better traceability, logging and monitoring.
  • Acted as solution architect and technical bridge between engineering and management.
  • Stack: Java Spring Boot, Kotlin, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Datadog, Kubernetes, Docker, Cloudflare, AWS, GCP.

Tech Lead / Senior Software Engineer

Intalio · Lebanon–France (hybrid)
Mar 2022 – Jun 2023
  • Led multiple technical units across SaaS and microservices-based products.
  • Led and delivered projects with a combined value of about $2M, coordinating technical execution, timelines and stakeholders.
  • Designed and delivered the core microservices architecture within the first month.
  • Containerized Intalio products and standardized deployment and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Led and delivered medical and data-management solutions from scratch; supported and maintained 10+ production systems.
  • Owned AWS infrastructure and DevOps practices.
  • Stack: Java, .NET, MongoDB, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Azure, AWS, Docker.

Software Engineer

HiCart.com · Lebanon (hybrid)
Feb 2018 – Apr 2022
  • Led the design and evolution of the delivery-management system (DMS) handling all e-commerce orders, driver coordination, tracking and reporting.
  • Architected and enhanced backend services in Java Spring Boot for high-traffic, business-critical operations.
  • Kept the system stable and available during major sales campaigns, including $1.6M (11/11/2018) and $3M (11/11/2020) single-day sales events.
  • Refactored and restructured the DMS to improve scalability, performance and fault tolerance.
  • Designed and implemented APIs consumed by Android applications and third-party services; led integrations with multiple logistics and messaging providers.
  • Managed CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure across GCP and AWS.
  • Played a key role in expanding the DMS internationally, including launching Egenie DMS in Iraq.
  • Stack: Java Spring Boot, AngularJS, MySQL, Cloudflare, Docker, AWS.

Software Engineer (Part-time)

GARAGECO · Kuwait (remote)
Jan 2021 – Sep 2021
  • Owned and maintained backend services for an automobile marketplace platform.
  • Migrated the backend from raw Java Servlets to Spring Boot, improving maintainability and scalability.
  • Led and coordinated the cloud migration from GCP to AWS.
  • Performed code reviews and coordinated development and delivery with a distributed team based in India.
  • Stack: Java Spring Boot, MongoDB, Docker, AWS, GCP.

Software Engineer

Intelligit · Lebanon (on-site)
Apr 2017 – Jan 2018
  • Built .NET data-processing solutions for large-scale data import, cleansing and analytical reporting.
  • Stack: .NET, SQL Server.

Education

Executive MBA, International Business

Paris-Dauphine PSL · IAE Paris-Sorbonne · Saint-Joseph University of Beirut
2019 – 2021

M.Eng, Computer & Telecommunications (System & Network Engineering)

Université Antonine (UA)
2012 – 2017

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect – AssociateAmazon Web Services
AWS Developer – AssociateAmazon Web Services
AWS Cloud PractitionerAmazon Web Services
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)CNCF / Linux Foundation
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)CNCF / Linux Foundation
Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)Scrum.org

Community & Speaking

Speaker26 technology events and conferences on AI, AWS, high-scalability architecture, cloud-native systems and software engineering
AWS Community BuilderSince 2022
Awards of AppreciationIEEE and the .NET Community
MentoringJunior and early-career engineers on software best practices

Honors

UA Competitive Programming Competition1st in 2016 · 2nd in 2015
Lebanese Collegiate Programming Contest9th in 2016

Skills & Languages

EngineeringBackend architecture · Microservices · Distributed systems · Cloud migrations · Cloud cost optimization · DevOps / CI-CD
StackTypeScript · Java Spring Boot · Kotlin · .NET · MongoDB · MySQL · PostgreSQL · SQL Server · Redis · RabbitMQ · Kafka
Cloud & platformsAWS · Google Cloud · Azure · Kubernetes · Docker · Cloudflare · Datadog
Leadership & languagesTeam leadership · Solution architecture · Scrum · English, French, Arabic