Sami El-Kebbe

Consultant - Full Stack Developer

| Avanade

2023 - Present

Avanade is the leading provider of innovative digital, cloud and advisory services, industry solutions and design-led experiences across the Microsoft ecosystem.

• Implemented an API utilising Node.js to sync customer loyalty points between a major airline and its financial partner
• Successfully initiated and contributed to multiple greenfield projects and participated in the selection and implementation of the latest technologies and frameworks, ensuring optimal project outcomes and future scalability

Senior Analyst - Full Stack Developer

| Avanade

2022 - 2023

Avanade is the leading provider of innovative digital, cloud and advisory services, industry solutions and design-led experiences across the Microsoft ecosystem.

• Upgraded and fixed automated regression tests developed with .NET and SpecFlow framework
• Revamped React SPA to use SCSS modules instead of CSS-in-JS, which resulted in an improved Lighthouse score from 53 to 91 and a better user experience

Analyst - Full Stack Developer

| Avanade

2021 - 2022

Avanade is the leading provider of innovative digital, cloud and advisory services, industry solutions and design-led experiences across the Microsoft ecosystem.

• Collaborated with a cross-functional team of 14 to develop website features in .NET and React hosted on Azure for a major client in the health industry
• Refactored legacy React code to utilise TypeScript and latest React features, which improved code maintainability, readability, and scalability

Full Stack Developer

| atomix

2019 - 2021

atomix is a digital agency working with a diverse range of clients from a variety of industries, such as energy, tourism, sports, finance, government, health and professional services.

• Redeveloped and worked on multiple websites to implement new UI and use new tech stack such as headless CMS (incl. Gatsby, GraphQL, React, AWS Lambda)
• Improved the Lighthouse performance score of a real estate website from 35 to 85 through optimisation efforts, boosting search engine visibility and user engagement
• Integrated 3rd party APIs with client websites ranging from SSO to Property Management Systems (PMS)
• Developed a serverless Node.js API to sync Shopify data to a Google Cloud Datastore and generate birthday coupons for customers
• Led the redevelopment of a React Native application, integrating Firebase services and enabling seamless authentication with a WordPress website for a client
• Mentored and onboarded new joiners, providing support to facilitate them into the development team

Junior Cybersecurity Developer

| atomix

2019 - 2019

atomix is a digital agency working with a diverse range of clients from a variety of industries, such as energy, tourism, sports, finance, government, health and professional services.

• Guided the PCI-DSS process with the team to make websites compliant with the policy
• Revamped client security plans to provide better security services and offer security recommendations to clients regarding vulnerabilities discovered on their site
• Trained other developers on security practices and penetration testing tools
• Developed automated process for security monitoring using PHP to scan sites for vulnerabilities and perform security updates

Cybersecurity Internship

| Boylen

2019 - 2019

A project developed for the audit and recommendation of Boylen's internal cybersecurity around hosting, network, device management and then review production environments and deployment process for WordPress and custom built CMS, WebTemplate. Included documenting secure software development lifecycle, OWASP guidelines, penetration testing websites to find vulnerabilities and solving them.

• Conducted penetration tests against websites developed by Boylen using tools including Kali Linux, Burp Suite, nmap, sqlmap and Wireshark
• Penetration testing found security vulnerabilities that affected a large number of websites developed with in-house CMS and applied solution to fix vulnerable code using OWASP guidelines
• Documented a report that included recommendations for Boylen in terms of implementing secure processes throughout the Software Development Lifecycle and the workplace

Bachelor of Computer Science (Cybersecurity)

| The University of Adelaide

2017 - 2019

Graduated from a Bachelor of Computer Science degree with a major in Cybersecurity, I have gained proficient technical skills in an array of programming languages including C++, Bash and web development to develop software that achieve various outcomes. In addition, I have studied several business courses ranging from marketing to corporate finance to assess the needs and problems of a company and the dynamic business environment. I have the desire to maintain on-going education for growth and development whilst challenging myself to further develop my technical skills in a rapidly evolving industry and have the ability to adapt to changing situations.

AI-900 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals

| Microsoft

2024

Earners of the Azure AI Fundamentals certification have demonstrated fundamental AI concepts related to the development of software and services of Microsoft Azure to create AI solutions.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

| Amazon

2023

Earning AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner validates cloud fluency and foundational AWS knowledge.

AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

| Microsoft

2021

Earners of the Azure Fundamentals certification have demonstrated foundational level knowledge of cloud services and how those services are provided with Microsoft Azure.

MS-900 Microsoft 365 Fundamentals

| Microsoft

2021

Earning the Microsoft 365 Fundamentals certification demonstrates an understanding of the options available in Microsoft 365 and the benefits of adopting cloud services, the Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud model, and implementing Microsoft 365 cloud service.