Issa Al-Halabi

Architected end-to-end infrastructure for a Real-World Asset marketplace aligning system design with business goals. Led backend system design and DevOps strategy using NestJS, TypeScript, and AWS. Designed distributed systems supporting real-time updates, background processing, and multi-environment deployments. Integrated Web3 smart contracts and blockchain event-driven workers. Reduced CI/CD runtimes by 50% and Docker image sizes by 90%, executed full AWS account migration with zero downtime, and delivered infrastructure and features across multiple environments with no regressions.

Led a team of 5 engineers building mobile apps and admin dashboards using Node.js, React, and React Native. Designed modular microservice architecture with API Gateway and authentication via Keycloak. Managed backend services for payments, subscriptions, and real-time IoT data with RabbitMQ. Optimized CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment time by 30%. Enhanced platform security and managed multi-environment container orchestration.

Developed and maintained MERN stack full-stack applications focusing on performance and security. Designed real-time encrypted socket communication between web app and IoT devices. Integrated Stripe payments with frontend and backend. Mentored junior developers on testing frameworks, improved code delivery speed, reduced bugs, and launched scalable production environments using Docker and DigitalOcean.