# Christophe H.

> SWE @ Kikoff | Ex-Google, Flexport | MSCS @ Carnegie Mellon University

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/christopheh

I am a SWE on the Banking team at Kikoff. I graduated with a Master's in CS from Carnegie Mellon University, was previously a SWE intern at Google and a SWE at Flexport. I am passionate about information, programming, math, energy, time and piano.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer E4 @ Kikoff
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Kikoff
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Flexport
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Built an ISF (US Customs) REST API end-to-end in Ruby and Kotlin, using gRPC and the outbox pattern through Kafka, and reducing Cost to Serve by 90%
• Implemented enhancements for ISF submissions which lowered rejection rates by 80% and improved automation rates by 16% (WoW), and presented a demo to 30+ coworkers
• Architected and developed an asynchronous workflow using Sidekiq in Ruby which reduced p95 API latency from 20s to 1.3s (93% improvement)
• Participated actively in architecture and design reviews, and served as Subject Matter Expert of an Automated Parser of ISF worksheets while coordinating with stakeholders (director, product manager, operators). The project reduces manual filing effort and hence operational costs by 88%
• Streamlined the onboarding process helping 2 engineers join the team by giving 2 engineering talks and publishing 2 wikis (testing workarounds, asynchronous processing)

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
• Implemented a C++ MapReduce pipeline and an online feature on Search for tracing references from News articles
• Performed data and precision/recall analysis on 1 billion documents with Python to evaluate information literacy hypotheses

### Software Developer @ Nightrix
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Beirut, Lebanon
Nightrix is a mobile application that connects clubbers during nightlife events. 

• 1st place at the "Pitchathon" event organized by Flat6Labs Beirut in partnership with Arab net
• Received seed investment from "LAU Spark" organized by LAU Fouad Makhzoumi Innovation Center in partnership with UK Tech Hub and Nucleus Ventures
• Developed and populated the database tables and entities relations
• Actively participated in board meetings for shaping the startup

### Software Engineer Intern (Remote) @ TechnoSoft Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Ohio, United States
• Received a two-week intensive training in AML, the company's custom-made object-oriented programming language derived from Common Lisp
• Developed classes and functions in AML implementing an efficient Structured Mesh for a pipe support using geometrical analysis, which minimized the meshing computational resources
• Implemented a UI in AML which outputs the optimal dimensions of a base plate supporting an inputted column load

### Research Assistant @ American University of Beirut
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Beirut, Lebanon
• Helped Prof. Fadi Zaraket with his research on Automated Reasoning
• Learned the fundamentals of Decision Theory from "Decision Procedures: An Algorithmic Point of View" by D. Kroening and O. Strichman
• Implemented abstraction to the Specification Construction Using SMT Solvers method (which autonomously generates the preconditions and postconditions of a program) using C++ and the Z3 Theorem Prover API
• Contributed to the COVID-19 Social Media Symptom Tracker side project

### Private Tutor @ Unknown
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
• 70+ hours of High School level Math, Physics, and Chemistry tutoring
• 40+ hours of University level Electrical Engineering, Maths, and Chemistry tutoring


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Bachelor's degree in Computer and Communications Engineering
American University of Beirut
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021

### International Exchange Program in Computer Science
École Polytechnique
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### International Honors Program in Computer Science
Stanford University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Silicon Valley Innovation Academy
Stanford University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### French Baccalaureate - Specialty Maths
SSCC Kfarhbab
Jan 2003 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christophe-haddad

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Last updated: 2026-03-23