Jad Harmoush

Senior Full-Stack Engineer & Platform Architect

Distributed systems, AI-enabled products, platform architecture, and technical leadership

Jad Harmoush

Professional Profile

Senior engineer and platform architect with 6+ years of experience designing and delivering high-scale platforms across education technology, digital media, aviation, government, and procurement. Combines hands-on full-stack delivery with system design, engineering leadership, and product ownership. Experienced in event-driven microservices, real-time media, cloud infrastructure, and AI-assisted workflows, with systems designed for audiences of up to 50M+ users, 2M+ concurrent viewers, and global airline transaction ecosystems processing 2B+ orders.

50M+
Users
2M+
Concurrent Viewers
2B+
Orders

Core Expertise

Architecture

Distributed systems Microservices Event-driven architecture Domain-driven design API design Nx monorepos

Backend

TypeScript NestJS Node.js REST GraphQL WebSockets RabbitMQ PostgreSQL Redis Elasticsearch MongoDB

Frontend

React Next.js Angular Ionic State architecture Responsive web applications Design systems

Cloud & Delivery

AWS Docker Kubernetes Cloudflare CI/CD Observability Performance optimization Secure deployments

AI & Media

Multi-agent orchestration RAG Edge AI Speech pipelines Whisper FFmpeg DRM HLS streaming

Industry Domains

EdTech OTT media Aviation retailing GDS/NDC Fintech integrations Government digital services eProcurement

Professional Experience

Lead Engineer

Watermelon Ecosystems

Feb 2026 – Present Dubai, UAE

B2B eProcurement platform digitizing food-and-beverage supply chains

  • Architected the product foundation as an Nx monorepo, separating domain state from presentation layers and enabling consistent delivery across web and mobile applications.
  • Designed and implemented NestJS microservices for transactional procurement workflows, including order orchestration, supplier operations, and scalable PostgreSQL data models.
  • Introduced AI-assisted engineering workflows using multiple LLM providers for code review, architecture validation, and database query analysis while retaining human approval gates.

AirRetailer Group

Progression: Frontend Engineer to Team Lead and Platform Architect

2022–2026

Technology group operating ventures across aviation, digital media, and education. Held parallel leadership and architecture responsibilities across portfolio companies.

Engineering Team Lead

Voizzit / Indonesia Cerdas

Jun 2024 – Jan 2026 Dubai, UAE

National-scale digital education platform supporting schools across Indonesia

  • Led backend architecture for a platform targeting 300K schools across 38 provinces, translating national program requirements into scalable services and delivery plans.
  • Built event-driven services with NestJS and RabbitMQ for order management, content management, and teacher-facing workflows across PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
  • Directed integration planning for acquired U.S. education products serving 50M+ children and 2M+ classrooms, aligning identity, content, data, and platform capabilities.

Platform Architect

India First

Nov 2023 – Dec 2024 Dubai, UAE

Subscription OTT platform for live video, podcasts, and digital news

  • Designed a resilient streaming architecture for up to 2M+ concurrent viewers and a target availability of 99.99%.
  • Defined the end-to-end media workflow covering FFmpeg encoding, DRM protection, adaptive-bitrate HLS delivery, and operational monitoring.
  • Optimized CDN and caching strategy to balance playback quality, origin protection, and infrastructure cost at audience scale.

Team Lead, Frontend

AirBooking

Mar 2022 – Oct 2023 Dubai, UAE

Corporate travel platform combining airline retailing, automation, and payments

  • Led frontend architecture and delivery for a corporate booking platform connected to airline ecosystems processing 2B+ orders globally.
  • Unified content from Sabre, Amadeus, NDC 21.3, and direct airline APIs into a consistent search, booking, servicing, and checkout experience.
  • Delivered an AI-assisted travel concierge and integrated the IATA Financial Gateway for payment orchestration and industry-compliant transaction flows.

Frontend Engineer

Dubai Civil Aviation Authority

Jun 2020 – Feb 2022 Dubai, UAE

Government digital transformation and regulatory service modernization

  • Modernized legacy SharePoint services into an Angular and Ionic ecosystem aligned with enterprise security, accessibility, and government delivery standards.
  • Built reusable interfaces and a hybrid mobile application supporting internal teams and digital services handling 100K+ monthly applications.
  • Received the DCAA Excellence Award 2021 for contributions to the transformation program.

Independent Software Consultant

Jay Softworks

2021 – Present UAE and Saudi Arabia
  • RTA live translation: Built a real-time multilingual service-booth solution using speech recognition, LLM translation, voice synthesis, and directional audio for 32+ languages with sub-two-second response targets. ↗ View project
  • Arabic sign-language recognition: Delivered a privacy-preserving, on-device recognition prototype using MediaPipe and TensorFlow.js, achieving 95.88% measured accuracy without transmitting video off-device. ↗ View project
  • Delivered additional consulting work spanning biometric authentication, high-frequency market data, digital gifting, government applications, and AI-enabled product prototypes.

Selected Engineering Projects

Education, Recognition & Languages

Education

B.Sc. Computer Science

Aix-Marseille University, France

2020

Recognition

DCAA Excellence Award

2021

2nd Place, Castor IT Competition

Lebanon, 2014

Languages

English (native) Arabic (native) French (professional working proficiency)