Ahmad Hijazi

Head of Development, leading the engineering team across frontend, backend, and mobile platforms while owning architecture, delivery, and technical standards.

• Lead a team of up to 10 developers across frontend, backend, and mobile, aligning technical strategy with business goals.
• Define and enforce coding standards, architecture patterns, and deployment pipelines across concurrent product workspaces.
• Deliver multi-surface products end to end: public web app, admin dashboard, provider portal, and Flutter mobile clients against a shared NestJS API.
• Own backend delivery on a family-activities marketplace covering Stripe payment flows, Better Auth sessions, BullMQ background work, transactional email, and Prisma/PostgreSQL data contracts.
• Mentor developers through regular code reviews, pairing, and performance evaluations; scope and prioritise features directly with stakeholders.

Led full-stack delivery for a Next.js/NestJS product workspace, working as the lead backend contributor while coordinating the wider development team.

• Led a team of up to 10 developers across web and backend delivery, setting technical direction and review standards.
• Lead backend author on the core platform: role- and permission-guarded APIs, dashboards, media and PDF handling, uploads, and AI SDK integrations.
• Shaped data models and service boundaries so frontend and backend teams could ship in parallel without contract drift.

Promoted to Senior Backend Developer in Jan 2023

Backend engineer on a large agriculture marketplace platform built and maintained by an eight-developer team across web, dashboard, and mobile surfaces.

• Built and maintained NestJS services backing customer web, operations dashboard, and Flutter mobile surfaces of the same platform.
• Delivered marketplace domain work: catalogue and order flows, role-based access, media handling, background jobs, and admin tooling.
• Worked inside an established multi-team codebase, following shared conventions and reviewing peers rather than reinventing patterns.

Concurrent, part-time from Jul 2022 alongside the Tech Quarters role; promoted to Senior in Jan 2022

Built websites, CRMs, and internal portals for clients across Lebanon, and owned the agency’s own website and client portal.

• Delivered client websites and CRM systems end to end, from data model through to deployed interface.
• Owned the company website and internal portal, including maintenance, feature work, and client-facing updates.
• Moved from jQuery-era stacks into React and Next.js as the agency modernised, picking up each framework on live client work.