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Hi, I'm Ziyad El Baz, a Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience designing and building scalable, multi-tenant platforms and microservices. I thrive on creating efficient backend systems leveraging AWS cloud services and modern frontend frameworks like Next.js. My passion is engineering solutions that enhance user experiences and simplify management of complex digital assets. I enjoy collaborating across teams to drive technical strategy, automate testing and deployment pipelines, and mentor junior engineers to foster continuous innovation. I bring a strong background in Java, Drools, AWS, and Test-Driven Development to deliver performant, secure, and maintainable applications.…Hi, I'm Ziyad El Baz, a Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience designing and building scalable, multi-tenant platforms and microservices. I thrive on creating efficient backend systems leveraging AWS cloud services and modern frontend frameworks like Next.js. My passion is engineering solutions that enhance user experiences and simplify management of complex digital assets. I enjoy collaborating across teams to drive technical strategy, automate testing and deployment pipelines, and mentor junior engineers to foster continuous innovation. I bring a strong background in Java, Drools, AWS, and Test-Driven Development to deliver performant, secure, and maintainable applications.

Ziyad E. El Baz

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Hi, I'm Ziyad El Baz, a Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience designing and building scalable, multi-tenant platforms and microservices. I thrive on creating efficient backend systems leveraging AWS cloud services and modern frontend frameworks like Next.js. My passion is engineering solutions that enhance user experiences and simplify management of complex digital assets. I enjoy collaborating across teams to drive technical strategy, automate testing and deployment pipelines, and mentor junior engineers to foster continuous innovation. I bring a strong background in Java, Drools, AWS, and Test-Driven Development to deliver performant, secure, and maintainable applications.…Hi, I'm Ziyad El Baz, a Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience designing and building scalable, multi-tenant platforms and microservices. I thrive on creating efficient backend systems leveraging AWS cloud services and modern frontend frameworks like Next.js. My passion is engineering solutions that enhance user experiences and simplify management of complex digital assets. I enjoy collaborating across teams to drive technical strategy, automate testing and deployment pipelines, and mentor junior engineers to foster continuous innovation. I bring a strong background in Java, Drools, AWS, and Test-Driven Development to deliver performant, secure, and maintainable applications.

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Hi, I’m Ziyad El Baz, a Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience designing and building scalable, multi-tenant platforms and microservices. I thrive on creating efficient backend systems leveraging AWS cloud services and modern frontend frameworks like Next.js. My passion is engineering solutions that enhance user experiences and simplify management of complex digital assets.

I enjoy collaborating across teams to drive technical strategy, automate testing and deployment pipelines, and mentor junior engineers to foster continuous innovation. I bring a strong background in Java, Drools, AWS, and Test-Driven Development to deliver performant, secure, and maintainable applications.

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Founding Engineer at BonViddy

January 1, 2024 - Present

Designed, architected, and built a multi-tenant video creation and management platform for corporate teams using a Next.js 15 frontend and an AWS Amplify backend with GraphQL. Developed a dual-editor system enabling videographers to create and lock video templates while allowing end-users to customize content within those constraints. Built a comprehensive digital asset management drive from scratch, enabling users to upload and manage images, audio, and other media for their video projects. Engineered a complete entitlements engine using a JSON Rules Editor to manage feature access, integrated with Stripe for billing, subscriptions, and entitlement management. Leveraged AWS EventBridge for asynchronous event processing such as video render completion, and AWS CloudFront for optimized, low-latency global asset delivery. Integrated Clerk for secure user authentication and organization management and utilized Algolia to provide performant, in-app search capabilities.

Senior Software Engineer at Capital One

December 31, 2023 - August 4, 2025

Built and maintained various decisioning components (rulesheets, Drools Rule Engine, Apache Camel Orchestrator, Jersey, DynamoDB) across 50+ business-defined programs servicing requests for over 40k daily active users. Reduced average time-to-market on assigned programs while increasing test coverage and team output by developing internal code generation tools for ATDD tests and Drools rulesheets. Minimized new changes to existing microservices while successfully implementing complex, multi-system product by driving technical strategy and design and collaborating effectively across platform, contribution, and frontend team leads. Eliminated multi-day, multi-team manual testing sessions by automating E2E and regression testing and evidence collection using Cypress in frontend and Postman Test Runner in backend. Ensured team code output is performant, meets quality standards, and reduces potential technical debt by conducting code-reviews, one-on-one feedback, and performance testing. Me

Software Engineer at Capital One

December 31, 2021 - August 4, 2025

Refactored ATDD configuration to utilize Cucumber & Gherkin’s Examples and Custom Steps to handle use-case specific boilerplate, allowing the team to 10x the number of test cases written. Implemented Apache Camel to orchestrate integration of customer data services with decisioning applications, utilizing Camel’s Java DSL for routing of program-specific routes which facilitated code maintainability. Utilized Splunk’s dedicated indexes capability and query-based alerting to monitor application performance and specific decision outcomes.

Software Engineer at AirDev

January 1, 2021 - August 4, 2025

Built and deployed full-stack B2B and B2C applications including two marketplace platforms, an internal sales campaign manager, and an enterprise-level product order configuration tool. Implemented Bubble Workflows to automate serverless functionality such as payments and subscriptions, marketing or administrative communications, and update composite entities through event triggers. Implemented mixed-database strategies that effectively leveraged Bubble’s Postgres database for relational data and AWS S3 for file storage, which limited queries and remained compliant with access management and application-specific privacy policies. Used Bubble’s access management policy generator to control user group access to application data and enhance the overall information security of an application.

Safety Analyst (Data) at NRC, INSO

December 31, 2019 - August 4, 2025

Leveraged Tableau, QGIS, and other visualization tools to produce data and trends analysis to aid in risk evaluation and form a basis for operational decision making in Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan. Produced incident maps on QGIS by executing buffer geoprocessing and joining internal SQL databases with open source road shape files for Afghanistan and Iraq to aid situational awareness and provide quantitative analysis for risk as pertains to road movements. Used OpenRefine to standardize variant transliterations of place names in internal SQL databases through linguistic clustering algorithms and string analysis, resulting in higher confidence statistical data analysis.