
Yahia B.
5.0
Studied at Boston University

Works at Brand.dev
Available Monday at 6:00 PM UTC
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About Yahia
I'm Yahia, a Senior Staff Software Lead at a public company, where I manage a team of staff engineers focused on AI automation and optimization. Previously, I was a Tech Lead at Amazon before leaving to build my own startups. I founded and scaled a B2C stock market tooling platform for retail investors to 250K users before it was acquired. My next venture, an AI-powered customer research startup, was also successfully acquired. Now, I help engineers break into FAANG or turn their startup ideas into reality.
Work Experience

Founder
Brand.dev
April 2024 - Present
Founder @ Brand.dev, fully bootstrapped & profitable API product that helps hundreds of businesses personalize their software at scale.

Sr. Staff Software engineer
Sunrun
November 2023 - Present
Leading development and execution on new projects across operations, installation, sales, compliance, and more within AI & product experience

Staff Data Engineer
optic
April 2023 - October 2023
Essense.io acquired by Optic, i'm still leading the development of Essense but now with the backing of a kick-ass team of AI experts.

Co-Founder (acquired)
essense
March 2023 - October 2023
Turn user feedback into an actionable list of product insights with AI.
Co-Founder (acquired)
Stock Alarm
December 2019 - April 2023
StockAlarm.io | 4.8 stars | 225K+ users Co-founder & CTO at Stock Alarm. A platform built to enable stock market traders to make faster and better decisions through realtime stock market alerts for international & US stocks, OTC, ETFs, Forex, Commodities, Indices, Cryptocurrencies, and more! We enable hundreds of thousands of traders every day to set reliable and customizable alerts. Responsible for technical infrastructure primarily focused on data ingestion, data normalization, and notifications for a system that processes 100K+ push notifications on a daily basis with over 35K+ assets ingesting data constantly during trading hours in markets around the world.
Tech Lead
Amazon
May 2020 - August 2022
Owner of a variety of initiatives impacting Amazon's checkout platform (tier 1 platform) worldwide on all devices from the points of security, latency, and reliability.
Yahia was also given offers to work at
Meta (Facebook)
Ramp
Visa
Credit Karma
Education
Boston University
Bachelor of Engineering - BS, Computer Engineering
2016 - 2020
Grade: Magna Cum Laude
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Overall Rating
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