Nader Fares - CTO, Latam, Cyncly

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Work Background

CynclyExecutive Director of Technology

Aug. 2023Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

BeatStarsCTO

Apr. 2018 - Aug. 2023Austin, TX - USABeatStars is a social music marketplace and distribution company that is reinventing the music collaboration industry. In addition to distributing finished songs, BeatStars’ platform enables music producers and recording artists to collaborate, share, sell, and distribute, any type of musical content (e.g. beats, lyrics, vocals) worldwide. BeatStars allows music creators of all levels to represent their content independently and generate multiple streams of revenue. The platform provides the tools to distribute, monetize, and protect content, allowing music producers, recording artists, songwriters, and beatmakers to collaboratively publish songs in the most efficient and affordable way possible. Responsibilities: - Manage a technical distributed (between 3 countries) team. - Develop technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals - Discover and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage - Help departments use technology profitably - Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency - Build quality assurance and data protection processes - Monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance - Use stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology - Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors

Aquiris Game StudioSr. DevOps Lead

Oct. 2016 - Apr. 2018Porto Alegre Area, BrazilAquiris has been creating games for a broad range of platforms, from browser to PC, consoles and mobile. Their big focus since the very beginning has been on delivering the best artistic, technical and gameplay quality to their players, in partnership with powerful publishing partners. Aquiris is known by the critically acclaimed arcade racing Horizon Chase Turbo, the fast-paced FPS Ballistic Overkill, and the F2P mobile Looney Tunes - World of Mayhem. Responsibilities: - building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure - understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers - working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes - testing and examining code written by others and analysing results - ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats - identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’ - working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established - processes and works as intended - planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions.

Instituto de Pesquisas EldoradoSoftware Analyst (DevOps Engineer)

Oct. 2013 - Jul. 2016Porto Alegre Area, BrazilEldorado Research Institute is a Brazilian reference in research, development and innovation in the areas of software, hardware, systems, processes and tests of electronic products, besides professional training in these areas, thanks to its highly qualified management and to its processes, certified by leading international norms. Achievements: - Assisted in projects linked to international companies engaged in the computers and mobile phones retailing industry. Main Projects: Mercury: Team responsible for development of MotoMaker, the main Motorola's ecommerce platform. My participation was: - Joining the R&D team responsible for making the architecture and offer better tools and - frameworks to be used in the development. - Product development in AngularJS as frontend and Play Framework as Java backend. - As a DevOps Engineer, being responsible for the infrastructure and the deployment of the product in the cloud. - Specializing in software management services and resources in the Amazon Cloud (AWS), taking specialization courses and acquire very advanced knowledge. - Full stacks and machines automation, including software building and deployment. Command: One of the main softwares projects of Dell - Programming and maintenance of a Java server responsible for call control. - Development of JMS queues based on IBM-MQ. - Software development of a system responsible for email distribution and control management to suppliers, partners and customers. - Distributed application using Oracle Web Logic and Oracle Database.

Mixberry Media, Inc.Engineering Manager

Jan. 2010 - Oct. 2013Palestinian TerritoryMixberry Media provides platforms and solutions for agencies, brand advertisers and trading desks to efficiently transact digital audio and video ad inventories. Achievements - Performed technical team leadership responsibilities as required - Responsible for recruitment and staff training. - Interaction with multi regions teams. - Applying techniques and algorithms to find the best balance between performance, quality and safety. Main Projects VADs Backend: As a key member of the team, some of my responsibilities: - Architecture and design of the system and its functionalities. - Planning and creation of the environment and infrastructure (using AWS) to ensure the availability, scalability and expandability of the system. - Planning a robust and distributed system. - Development using technologies such as JEE and PHP. VADs Libraries: Team Leader, with the responsibility of creation of extensions for different platforms (e.g .: iOS, Android, WP8, Web, etc.), so final users could easily integrate vAds to their products. Some of my responsibilities: - Team leadership. - Architecture and design of the extensions with the goal of portability, compatibility, extension and maintainable code. - Research limitations and specifications of each platform. - Apply best techniques and technologies for the best maintenance and compatibility between various platforms. - Research and development of strategies to overcome possible technical limitations. - Research, development and recommendation of new techniques and technologies that can be useful in a technical application or commercial vision of the project. - Integration with web services using technologies such as XML and JSON.

gSoft Technology SolutionsSoftware Engineer

Jun. 2007 - Jan. 2010Palestinian TerritoryCompany specialized in software development. Achievements - Enhancing development skills for iOS, JEE technologies and TTS (Text To Speech). - Participation in the development of iPhone applications, such as "Monica", chosen App of the Month by Apple. - Development of an application dedicated to the conversion of text to audio on the iPhone and Android platforms.