Software engineer with 5+ years of experience building full-stack, event-driven systems using Java, Spring Boot, Quarkus, Angular, React, and TypeScript. Experienced with Kafka-based architectures, microservices, AWS, and Kubernetes, with end-to-end ownership from UI through backend services to infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and production monitoring.

Ala Ben Abdallah

Software engineer with 5+ years of experience building full-stack, event-driven systems using Java, Spring Boot, Quarkus, Angular, React, and TypeScript. Experienced with Kafka-based architectures, microservices, AWS, and Kubernetes, with end-to-end ownership from UI through backend services to infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and production monitoring.

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Software engineer with 5+ years of experience building full-stack, event-driven systems using Java, Spring Boot, Quarkus, Angular, React, and TypeScript. Experienced with Kafka-based architectures, microservices, AWS, and Kubernetes, with end-to-end ownership from UI through backend services to infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and production monitoring.

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Language

Arabic
Fluent
French
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English
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German
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Work Experience

Software Engineer at Kühne+Nagel
May 1, 2022 - Present
Developed and maintained full-stack features for a Customer business profile application using Angular and Quarkus, migrating from a Spring Boot microservices architecture. Built core platform capabilities including subscription management, entity history tracking, reliable event publishing via the outbox pattern, and command-based processing with Kafka topologies. Implemented backend pagination for efficient handling of large datasets across multiple services. Contributed to migration from on-premise OpenShift to AWS EKS by provisioning infrastructure with Terraform/Terragrunt, migrating container registry to ECR, moving deployments from Helm-only to Kustomize overlays, and wiring ArgoCD notification webhooks (Teams/email) with GitLab E2E pipeline triggers. Mentored 4 Dual-Studium students, contributed to an AI Assistant chatbot integrating AWS Bedrock with WebSocket streaming and MCP tooling, built custom AWS Kiro skills for code-quality enforcement, and authored infrastructure-as-c
Software Developer at Datenlotsen Informationssysteme GmbH
September 1, 2021 - May 1, 2022
Built backend services in C# and .NET for an infrastructure platform that generates and validates graph representations of XML configuration files, applying clean architecture and domain-driven design across distributed microservices. Designed message-driven communication between .NET microservices using RabbitMQ with publisher/subscriber patterns to decouple services and standardize messaging contracts for reliable async delivery. Worked with Neo4j graph database and containerized services with Docker.
Full-Stack Developer (Part-time) at Venari Security
June 1, 2019 - June 1, 2021
Built a real-time platform detecting and responding to cyber threats hidden in encrypted traffic with a React/Redux/Apollo Client frontend. Engineered secure real-time backend services with Express.js, Apollo Server, Socket.io, and REST/GraphQL over Apache Phoenix/HBase datastore. Containerized microservices with Docker, orchestrated them on Kubernetes, and set up CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins. Added additional React/Redux and Express/Node.js features backed by MongoDB following Venari Security’s acquisition by Barac.
Part-time Full-Stack Developer at Venari Security
June 1, 2019 - June 1, 2021
Built a real-time platform to detect and respond to cyber threats hidden in encrypted traffic, with a React/Redux/Apollo Client frontend. Engineered secure real-time backend services using Express.js, Apollo Server, Socket.io, and REST/GraphQL over Apache Phoenix/HBase. Containerized microservices with Docker, orchestrated on Kubernetes, and set up CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins. Delivered additional frontend/backend features and integrated MongoDB-backed services following Barac’s acquisition by Venari Security.
Mobile / Web Developer (Intern) at Ng-enious
January 1, 2018 - May 1, 2018
Built EcoCons, an Ionic 3 mobile app raising awareness of household electricity consumption, and an Angular admin web interface to manage users and products.

Education

Master’s Degree in Software Engineering at Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of Sousse (ISSATSo)
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2021
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Higher Institute of Computer Science and Mathematics of Monastir (ISIMM)
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2018
Master’s Degree in Software Engineering at Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of Sousse (ISSATSo)
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2021
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Higher Institute of Computer Science and Mathematics of Monastir (ISIMM)
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2018
Master’s Degree in Software Engineering at Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of Sousse (ISSATSo)
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2021
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Higher Institute of Computer Science and Mathematics of Monastir (ISIMM)
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2018

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Computers & Electronics, Financial Services, Education, Other, Transportation & Logistics