Mohamed Mahmoud Taman  
Sr. Enterprise Architect / Java Expert  
Java Champion​, ​Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador​, ​JCP Member​,
International Speaker, and Author.
LinkedIn​, ​Github​, ​Blog​, ​@Oracle Magazine
Belgrade, Serbia
mohamed.taman@gmail.com.com
​+381 64 5236 738​
 
WORK EXPERIENCE 
Sr. Enterprise Architect, Voyego by Comtrade ​- ​Jan/2019 - present - ​Belgrade, Serbia 
Voyego is part of Comtrade Group, a leading IT provider with offices in 16 countries across the globe. At 
Voyego we develop tailor-made software solutions and opens up novel possibilities and business 
opportunities in the mobility and travel industry. 
⇢ Managing a team of up to ​15 software engineers in 3 locations developing the customer needed hotel                                 
reservation system software services, with MVP, and lean product development strategies in mind. 
⇢ Restored customer confidence by recovering from a ​3 month overrun to provide two live sprints within 1.5                                 
months resulting in follow-on contract exceeding the original site development cost.  
⇢ Identified business, functional and non-functional requirements during the design and build process to modify                           
current legacy software based on client business needs, and well groom the backlog user stories to reflect the                                   
new requirements. Which increases the planning and sprint efficiency by ​75%​. 
⇢ Reduced the development lifecycle ​50% by streamlining the department processes through the                       
implementation of TDD, Scrum, TOGAF, and Agile development, motivating and training engineers, upgrading                         
tools and technologies, improving project management, and instilling accountability. 
⇢ Managed the software development Efforts from project conception to installation. Improved Project On-time                         
Delivery rate by over ​300%​. Development performed in Java using Spring, REST APIs, Jenkins, MySQL, Oracle,                               
Casandra, and Elasticsearch and direct the development and implementation of Cloud strategy and approach                           
using AWS & loose coupled and highly coherent Microservices component architecture. 
⇢ Lead architecture, design, and develop teams for ​$8 Million​ airline client data and reporting solution.
Sr. Java Architect, WebCentric​- ​Apr/2018 - Jan/2019 - ​Belgrade, Serbia. 
WebCentric is one of the most important IT solution providers in the country. 
⇢ Lead a team of 4 engineers, and maintained the code quality standards, and framework for 3 applications,                                 
which increase productivity by ​60%​, and reduce bugs rate by ​65%​, with a maintainable code that is flexible for                                     
future business changes. 
⇢ Developed & maintained fully auto-scale infrastructure using Java EE, ​delivering 3 up and running                           
applications that are able to rapidly scale up and down based on the load and internal information.  
⇢ Created the chatbot interface in Javascript, CSS, HTML, and Jquery, increasing the performance by ​25%​. 
⇢ Forecast & optimized cloud infrastructure costs, reducing ​50%​ of the total expenses related to the operations.
Chief Architect / Innovation & R&D Sr. Manager, e-finance​ ​Mar/2017 - Mar/2018 - ​Cairo, Egypt. 
e-finance is #1 e-payment services company in Egypt and Middle-East.  
I was recruited back by the managing board to automate the management and origination of new business                                 
lines. I took responsibility for all the software development and foundational platforms for software,                           
hardware, and virtualization. 
⇢ Reviewed existing warehousing models and architecture, leading to new development that improved existing                         
warehouse loading by ​60% and reporting system loading by ​55%​, with cost reduction to ​200% using new                                 
 
Bigdata stack, to have a unified data lake with vanilla Hadoop, and commodity hardware, that increased a                                 
better business decision making. 
⇢ Headed the business solutions sector and positioned the company for expansion. 
⇢ I provided day-to-day leadership to support the business and I lead product development, architecture,                           
engineering and hands-on developing End-to-End applications to satisfy the high growing financial company. 
⇢ Scrutinized business needs for cost benefits including make vs. buy analysis. 
⇢ Developed ​106​ products to grow customer base, product landscape, and increased company-wide revenue. 
⇢ Grew the number of products by ​300%​, and reduced the development cycle by ​60%​. 
⇢ Lead cloud strategy and approach using current data-center to include it as service into the company services                                 
portfolio, which added ​$4 Million​ as net revenue. 
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES 
⇢ Chief Technology Officer, PaySky International​ ​ ​- ​Nov/2016  - Mar/2017 ​-​ ​Cairo, Egypt 
⇢ Enterprise Architect & Software Dev. Sr. Manager, e-finance ​- ​Jan/2008 - Dec/2016 ​-​ ​Cairo, Egypt 
⇢ GIT Sr. Software Engineer II, Oracle ​- ​May/2007 - Dec/2007 ​-​ ​Cairo, Egypt 
⇢ Sr. Java Software Engineer, Google ​- ​Jan/2007 - Apr/2007 ​-​ ​Cairo, Egypt 
⇢ Sr. Software Engineer, Intercom Enterprise ​- ​Apr/2006 - Dec/2006 ​-​ ​Cairo, Egypt 
⇢ Web Software Developer, Arrows Technologies​- ​Jun/2005 - Mar/2006 ​-​ ​Cairo, Egypt 
⇢ IT Professional Town Office, Pfizer ​- ​Aug/2000 - Jan/2005 ​-​ ​Cairo, Egypt. 
SIDE PROJECTS  
Java 9 through 12 theory and practices series - 11 articles:​ for IBM Developer -​ April/2019 
The Complete Guide to the Java SE 12 Extended Switch Statement/Expression​:​ ​for InfoQ​ - March/2019.
Explore the New Java 10 “var” Type: An Introduction and Hands-on Tutorial​: ​for InfoQ​ - September/2018​.
Hands-on Java 10 Programming with JShell​:​ ​a video training published by Packt Publishing - ​July/2018.
Getting Started with Clean Code Java SE 9​:​ ​a video training published by Packt Publishing - ​March/2018.
JavaFX 8 Essentials:​ ​a book published by Packt Publishing - ​June/2015. 
 
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATES 
2005​ B.Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering​, Zagazig University, Cairo, Egypt. 
1999 ​Diploma in Electronics and Automatic Control​, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. 
Certificate in ​TOGAF L1, L2 - The Open Group - 2015 
Certified in ​Java 1.2, 5, Java EE, Web Services, JPA, & Architect - Sun Microsystems - 2005+  
Certified in ​Oracle, OOAD, PL/SQL, Database Design and Data Architect - Oracle - 2007+ 
 
TECHNICAL SKILLS 
(12+ years)​: Java, JDK, OOP, SOLID, Java EE, Development, UI/UX, Front-end, Databases, Analysis, Architecture, 
Design, Analysis, SOA, Integration. Design Patterns, Architecture Patterns, Clean coding. 
(6+ years)​: DevOps, Team Leading, Project Management, R&D, Scrum, Agile, Big Data, Microservices, REST APIs, 
Mobile, Messaging, Kafka. 
(3+ years Studying & Practicing)​: Blockchain, ElasticSearch, Docker, Kubernetes, Graph DB, Microsoft Azure, 
Oracle Cloud, AWS, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, IoT, Arduino, Leap Motion, Raspberry Pi. 
LANGUAGES 
English​ - Level of Proficiency (​Advanced​), ​Arabic​ - Native 
 

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    Mohamed Mahmoud Taman   Sr.Enterprise Architect / Java Expert   Java Champion​, ​Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador​, ​JCP Member​, International Speaker, and Author. LinkedIn​, ​Github​, ​Blog​, ​@Oracle Magazine Belgrade, Serbia mohamed.taman@gmail.com.com ​+381 64 5236 738​   WORK EXPERIENCE  Sr. Enterprise Architect, Voyego by Comtrade ​- ​Jan/2019 - present - ​Belgrade, Serbia  Voyego is part of Comtrade Group, a leading IT provider with offices in 16 countries across the globe. At  Voyego we develop tailor-made software solutions and opens up novel possibilities and business  opportunities in the mobility and travel industry.  ⇢ Managing a team of up to ​15 software engineers in 3 locations developing the customer needed hotel                                  reservation system software services, with MVP, and lean product development strategies in mind.  ⇢ Restored customer confidence by recovering from a ​3 month overrun to provide two live sprints within 1.5                                  months resulting in follow-on contract exceeding the original site development cost.   ⇢ Identified business, functional and non-functional requirements during the design and build process to modify                            current legacy software based on client business needs, and well groom the backlog user stories to reflect the                                    new requirements. Which increases the planning and sprint efficiency by ​75%​.  ⇢ Reduced the development lifecycle ​50% by streamlining the department processes through the                        implementation of TDD, Scrum, TOGAF, and Agile development, motivating and training engineers, upgrading                          tools and technologies, improving project management, and instilling accountability.  ⇢ Managed the software development Efforts from project conception to installation. Improved Project On-time                          Delivery rate by over ​300%​. Development performed in Java using Spring, REST APIs, Jenkins, MySQL, Oracle,                                Casandra, and Elasticsearch and direct the development and implementation of Cloud strategy and approach                            using AWS & loose coupled and highly coherent Microservices component architecture.  ⇢ Lead architecture, design, and develop teams for ​$8 Million​ airline client data and reporting solution. Sr. Java Architect, WebCentric​- ​Apr/2018 - Jan/2019 - ​Belgrade, Serbia.  WebCentric is one of the most important IT solution providers in the country.  ⇢ Lead a team of 4 engineers, and maintained the code quality standards, and framework for 3 applications,                                  which increase productivity by ​60%​, and reduce bugs rate by ​65%​, with a maintainable code that is flexible for                                      future business changes.  ⇢ Developed & maintained fully auto-scale infrastructure using Java EE, ​delivering 3 up and running                            applications that are able to rapidly scale up and down based on the load and internal information.   ⇢ Created the chatbot interface in Javascript, CSS, HTML, and Jquery, increasing the performance by ​25%​.  ⇢ Forecast & optimized cloud infrastructure costs, reducing ​50%​ of the total expenses related to the operations. Chief Architect / Innovation & R&D Sr. Manager, e-finance​ ​Mar/2017 - Mar/2018 - ​Cairo, Egypt.  e-finance is #1 e-payment services company in Egypt and Middle-East.   I was recruited back by the managing board to automate the management and origination of new business                                  lines. I took responsibility for all the software development and foundational platforms for software,                            hardware, and virtualization.  ⇢ Reviewed existing warehousing models and architecture, leading to new development that improved existing                          warehouse loading by ​60% and reporting system loading by ​55%​, with cost reduction to ​200% using new                                   
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    Bigdata stack, tohave a unified data lake with vanilla Hadoop, and commodity hardware, that increased a                                  better business decision making.  ⇢ Headed the business solutions sector and positioned the company for expansion.  ⇢ I provided day-to-day leadership to support the business and I lead product development, architecture,                            engineering and hands-on developing End-to-End applications to satisfy the high growing financial company.  ⇢ Scrutinized business needs for cost benefits including make vs. buy analysis.  ⇢ Developed ​106​ products to grow customer base, product landscape, and increased company-wide revenue.  ⇢ Grew the number of products by ​300%​, and reduced the development cycle by ​60%​.  ⇢ Lead cloud strategy and approach using current data-center to include it as service into the company services                                  portfolio, which added ​$4 Million​ as net revenue.  PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES  ⇢ Chief Technology Officer, PaySky International​ ​ ​- ​Nov/2016  - Mar/2017 ​-​ ​Cairo, Egypt  ⇢ Enterprise Architect & Software Dev. Sr. Manager, e-finance ​- ​Jan/2008 - Dec/2016 ​-​ ​Cairo, Egypt  ⇢ GIT Sr. Software Engineer II, Oracle ​- ​May/2007 - Dec/2007 ​-​ ​Cairo, Egypt  ⇢ Sr. Java Software Engineer, Google ​- ​Jan/2007 - Apr/2007 ​-​ ​Cairo, Egypt  ⇢ Sr. Software Engineer, Intercom Enterprise ​- ​Apr/2006 - Dec/2006 ​-​ ​Cairo, Egypt  ⇢ Web Software Developer, Arrows Technologies​- ​Jun/2005 - Mar/2006 ​-​ ​Cairo, Egypt  ⇢ IT Professional Town Office, Pfizer ​- ​Aug/2000 - Jan/2005 ​-​ ​Cairo, Egypt.  SIDE PROJECTS   Java 9 through 12 theory and practices series - 11 articles:​ for IBM Developer -​ April/2019  The Complete Guide to the Java SE 12 Extended Switch Statement/Expression​:​ ​for InfoQ​ - March/2019. Explore the New Java 10 “var” Type: An Introduction and Hands-on Tutorial​: ​for InfoQ​ - September/2018​. Hands-on Java 10 Programming with JShell​:​ ​a video training published by Packt Publishing - ​July/2018. Getting Started with Clean Code Java SE 9​:​ ​a video training published by Packt Publishing - ​March/2018. JavaFX 8 Essentials:​ ​a book published by Packt Publishing - ​June/2015.    EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATES  2005​ B.Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering​, Zagazig University, Cairo, Egypt.  1999 ​Diploma in Electronics and Automatic Control​, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.  Certificate in ​TOGAF L1, L2 - The Open Group - 2015  Certified in ​Java 1.2, 5, Java EE, Web Services, JPA, & Architect - Sun Microsystems - 2005+   Certified in ​Oracle, OOAD, PL/SQL, Database Design and Data Architect - Oracle - 2007+    TECHNICAL SKILLS  (12+ years)​: Java, JDK, OOP, SOLID, Java EE, Development, UI/UX, Front-end, Databases, Analysis, Architecture,  Design, Analysis, SOA, Integration. Design Patterns, Architecture Patterns, Clean coding.  (6+ years)​: DevOps, Team Leading, Project Management, R&D, Scrum, Agile, Big Data, Microservices, REST APIs,  Mobile, Messaging, Kafka.  (3+ years Studying & Practicing)​: Blockchain, ElasticSearch, Docker, Kubernetes, Graph DB, Microsoft Azure,  Oracle Cloud, AWS, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, IoT, Arduino, Leap Motion, Raspberry Pi.  LANGUAGES  English​ - Level of Proficiency (​Advanced​), ​Arabic​ - Native