Raed Shomali

Raed Shomali has worked in a variety of roles in the software engineering and infrastructure engineering fields since 2008. In 2008, they were a Teaching Assistant at the University of Southern California, for which they were nominated for the "Most Outstanding TA" award. In 2009, they worked as a Software Engineer at Rearden Commerce, where they built the Message Obfuscator Service and initiated the "Fresh Graduate Buddy Program". Raed also worked as a Software Engineer at Playdom, where they maintained and developed features for Mobsters 1, Mobsters 2 and Sorority Life on both the Facebook and MySpace platforms. In 2010, they worked as a Software Engineer at Jive Software, where they designed, implemented and shipped new solutions that exposed Analytics data and realtime insights through REST API calls. From 2013-2015, they worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Schrödinger, where they redesigned and refactored the Backend Architecture to improve reusability, maintainability, testability and developer productivity. In 2016, they worked as an Engineering Manager at fuboTV, where they redesigned the Architecture from a Monolithic one into a Service-Oriented one and led the team to build several micro services. From 2017-2020, they worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Better.com, where they designed and implemented a Tokenization Service and an “Event Bus”. Currently, they are a Software Engineer at Opto Investments, where they have architected a Seed Service, implemented a Notifications Service and built a ChatOps Slack Bot.

Raed Shomali received their Masters in Software Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2009. Prior to that, they earned a BS in Computer Information Systems from the University of Jordan in 2007.