Rami Najjar

Overview

I lead iOS apps at Oak Labs in Cairo. Led the migration of 78 services to XCTest. Before that: Google and SABIC. Most at home with UIKit and Core Data. Board games, hiking, and terrible puns.

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Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Jun 2024 - Present
   Oak Labs · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Cairo, Egypt
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 19 minutes to under 6.
   • Shipped 26 launches on the iOS team without a rollback.
2. Engineering Manager

   Aug 2022 - Jun 2024
   Google · 1 yr 10 mo · Contract · Cairo, Egypt
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 18 minutes to under 4.
3. Senior Engineering Manager

   Mar 2019 - Aug 2022
   SABIC · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Cairo, Egypt
   • Built the experimentation framework 24 product teams use to ship changes safely.
4. Senior iOS Engineer

   Mar 2015 - Nov 2018
   Talabat · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Cairo, Egypt
   • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Built the experimentation framework 37 product teams use to ship changes safely.
5. iOS Engineer

   Jul 2013 - Mar 2015
   McKinsey & Company · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Cairo, Egypt
   • Moved 90% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

1. American University of Beirut

   BE, Computer Science
   2005 - 2009