Yazan Hamdan

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Senior Engineering Manager at Fiverr · IOS apps

Fiverr
Abu Dhabi, UAE · GST (UTC+4)
13+ years experience
American University of Beirut
English, Arabic
Co-founder
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Overview

Based in Abu Dhabi. I lead iOS apps at Fiverr. Shipped 13 launches on the iOS team without a rollback. Wrote the Core Data service that now handles 3 million requests a day. Before that: Standard Chartered and Siemens. Yoga every morning.

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Skills
XCTestSwiftUIKitCombineCore DataSwiftUI
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a go-to-market co-founder for clinical documentation for university students

The idea
Clinical documentation for university students
Stage
Early revenue
I bring
14 years in iOS apps
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Abu Dhabi or remote

I bring 15 years of iOS apps (currently Fiverr). Ideally you've shipped B2B software. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2023 - Present
    Fiverr · 3 yr · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
    • Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 335ms to 157ms.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Oct 2021 - Oct 2023
    Standard Chartered · 2 yr · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
    • Moved 95% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Wrote the Combine service that now handles 19 million requests a day.
  3. iOS Engineer
    Nov 2019 - Oct 2021
    Siemens · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
    • Wrote the XCTest service that now handles 62 million requests a day.
  4. Senior iOS Engineer
    May 2017 - Nov 2019
    Noon · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
    • Shipped 13 launches on the iOS team without a rollback.
    • Brought on-call pages for iOS down from 15 a week to 2.
  5. iOS Engineer
    Jul 2013 - May 2017
    Teva · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Abu Dhabi, UAE
    • Shipped 23 launches on the iOS team without a rollback.

Projects

Side project: a recipe search engine
2025

Built with XCTest and Combine. 2520 people used it last year.

Open-source Swift toolkit
2022

A small library for iOS apps that 530 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. American University of Beirut
    BE, Information Technology
    2007 - 2011

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