Simon Kassab

# Summary

Team lead and full-stack software engineer with 4+ years of experience building enterprise distributed cloud systems at Genetec. Drive product requirements and architectural vision while staying hands-on across .NET microservices, React, and Azure — blending team leadership with customer-facing, product-minded delivery.

# Education

# Experience

Lead a team responsible for developing a web application offering operational capabilities to authorized Genetec resellers.

• Lead a team of 4 engineers, owning the product's technical and architectural direction in alignment with the company's technical strategy
• Recruit, onboard, and coach engineers and interns, developing a high-performing and collaborative team
• Shape the product vision and requirements in close partnership with product managers and key stakeholders
• Delivered key features including a dedicated newsfeed, cloud resource consumption tracking, and secure access to critical system data
• Drive product-led growth using web analytics to track feature adoption and user behavior, prioritizing the roadmap around real usage
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams — product, QA, UX, and support — to design, deliver and operate the application

Member of a team responsible for developing a custom integration between Genetec's CRM and R&D cloud domain, central to the launch of an enterprise-level cloud security suite.

• Built the core CRM-to-cloud integration, reducing product fulfillment from 2 days to under 10 minutes and scaling throughput from 3 to 30 orders per day.
• Built .NET microservices, event-driven integrations, a React frontend, and Azure/Terraform infrastructure across the full stack.
• Engineered the central authorization layer for cloud tenant user management.
• Led on-call operations for 2 years and built the synthetic testing, alerting, and observability infrastructure used to detect production incidents.

# Freelance Projects

Technical lead and primary contributor for a Flutter app connected to a Bluetooth hockey training device.

• Built BLE sensor integration, real-time shot tracking, and a Supabase serverless backend.

Technical lead and primary contributor for a React/TypeScript and C#/.NET pharmacy operations platform.

• Designed secure multi-tenant workflows and translated client needs into incremental product delivery.

# Internships