Karim Abuzaid

Technical Lead / Senior Software Engineer

• Platform owner for MLS, API, and ingestion systems powering IYBA.org internal systems.
• Identified and remediated architectural mismatches across legacy billing, access control, and enforcement systems.
• Stabilized production by resolving infrastructure, deployment, and ingestion reliability issues.
• Built internal tooling and admin workflows to reduce operational overhead.

Head of Engineering

• Designed and owned the end-to-end architecture, taking the product from concept to MVP while actively contributing hands-on development.
• Built the cloud-native architecture using serverless services and Terraform, enabling fast, repeatable environment provisioning and safe scaling.
• Partnered with leadership on product strategy and roadmap, aligning technical decisions with early market validation.
• Delivered a RESO-compliant MLS ETL, improving data reliability and enabling scalable listing updates.
• Established CI/CD and team workflows, increasing delivery speed and production reliability.

Principal / Lead Software Engineer

• Progressed from Senior to Principal Engineer, taking increasing ownership across architecture, delivery, and team leadership.
• Led a major platform re-architecture, migrating CommonGround to a multi-tenant SaaS model and reducing operational overhead.
• Spearheaded a ~90% system overhaul, coordinating in-house and offshore teams to deliver a scalable, high-performance marketplace.
• Designed and maintained cloud-based backend and ETL systems supporting large-scale ingestion and marketplace operations.
• Built and standardized CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows, improving release speed and production stability.
• Acted as a technical interviewer during early-stage growth, helping scale the engineering team significantly while maintaining hiring quality, as the company grew to over 100 total employees across engineering, product, design, and operations.

Senior Full Stack Engineer

• Progressed from Junior to Senior Engineer, contributing across the full SDLC while delivering 10+ production products for a global client base.
• Built multiple platforms from zero to production, including SaaS, mobile, e-commerce, and real-time applications.
• Served as Lead Engineer on Shoptimized, an all-in-one Shopify app integrating 80+ third-party tools, mentoring a small team and defining engineering standards.
• Contributed to early-stage SaaS (Nectir), real-time social platforms (OppaMeet), and mobile apps (StoreAdvise), owning features across frontend, backend, and integrations.
• Took on increasing technical leadership responsibilities, including mentorship, code quality, deployment, and production rollouts.
• Contributed across the full software development lifecycle: requirements gathering, architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.