# Ramzi Maalej > Technology Leader | Angel Investor. Join us in reshaping the insurance landscape with innovation and unwavering commitment to excellence. Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ramzimaalej With a strong passion for disruptive technologies and startups: I have proven ability to quickly grasp complex technical concepts and apply them to real-world problems. I have extensive experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions. I'm adept at identifying and evaluating potential investment opportunities in the tech space. ## Work Experience ### Principal Engineer @ Glow Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Joined Glow as second engineer and sixth employee, driven by my profound conviction in our mission to revolutionize insurance accessibility with unparalleled coverage at unbeatable rates – a necessity for everyone. 1) I spearheaded the development of robust data pipelines, igniting our sales engine and propelling our revenue. 2) I led the architectural design and implementation of our backend services powering our proprietary CRM system optimized for insurance sales. ### Founding member of OpenAPI Generator (https://openapi-generator.tech) @ OpenAPI Generator Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Contribution limited to: - Reviewing PRs - Speaking at local events ### Co-Founder & CTO @ Veamly Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Built the core technology that allowed Veamly to land its first customers, and to raise close to $0.5M in seed funding. 1) Assembled a distributed team of 5 engineers and data scientists spread across 3 continents, and built an engine that uses AI technologies to ingest conversations from collaboration tools and prioritize them for engineers to reduce distractions and increase focus time. 2) At the time, Veamly intergrated with Atlassian (Jira and Confluence), Google (Drive and Calendar), Slack, and Github. ### Lead Software Engineer @ ThoughtWorks Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area As a member of the leading team at a global retailer, I helped execute the office of the CTO's strategic vision to modernize their information system and achieve their digital transformation for 2018. My achievements: 1) Helped build a product-focused and data-driven team as a model to repeat and scale within the organization. Proved that by having product-focused teams, new initiatives can be executed and shipped to production faster. 2) Influenced and guided the transition towards microservices to increase ownership, agility, and speed of execution of product initiatives. 3) Coached junior members and built awareness around best practices: Domain Driven Design, DevOps, A/B testing and metrics. ### Senior Software Engineer Contract @ Intact Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Montreal, Canada Area ### Co-Founder @ SafetyNotes Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Région de Montréal, Canada As a CTO, I led the day to day technology operations and providing strategic direction to meet the company business goals. Architected and developed a saas platform to manage and export material safety data sheets. ### Engineering Technical Lead @ Videotron Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Montreal, Canada Area I Led the development of an in-house tool to accelerate and improve the process of validating VoD catalog metadata. The project has been paid off in full after 6 months of utilization. It has also saved the company $300k annually. 1) Conducted meetings with all stakeholders to build the product roadmap. 2) Architected and developed a data pipeline to ingest VoD catalog metadata. 3) Managed the dev team and coordinated the roll-out of the product. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Bell Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Montreal, Canada Area Developing high traffic web application for RDS, a national TV sport channel using proprietary CMS (Polopoly). Being part of a distributed agile team of 25-35 developers across North America and Asia, I'm mainly focusing on backend; writing web services and developing new components. I'm also involved in developing a Restful web api to integrate with other systems. ### Senior Software Engineer Contract @ Ministry of Immigration (Québec) Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Région de Montréal, Canada Developping a Web application to allow people willing to immigrate to Canada to apply online for the CSQ (Certificate of Selection Quebec). ### Senior Software Engineer Contract @ Morgan Stanley Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Région de Montréal, Canada Improving the firm wide file transfer application, which is used by MS business units and their clients across the world, and resolving critical problems. • Developing a proof of concept of low latency solution of file polling based on Java NIO. • Refactoring and fixing existing bugs (Increasing code coverage, etc.). • Improving the administration panel by adding new functionalities. • Promoting the use of Scrum and agile tools (JIRA, Mylyn). ### Software Developer @ TEKsystems Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 As a member of the Java practice, I'm providing technical assistance to our clients around the Java ecosystem. ### Software Engineer @ Macy's Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Région de Montréal, Canada In partnership with the client, I'm working on improving his product management system to meet his business objectives. Being part of a distributed team of 25-35 developers across North America, I'm involved in developing new functionalities and repairing anomalies following an agile methodology (Scrum). ### J2EE Developer @ Atvent Solutions Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Designing and building Business Intelligence J2EE web applications. Integrating of Geo-spatial feature to the application using Oracle Spatial and Mapviewer server. ### IT Volunteer @ Projet Montréal Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 I've been volunteering at Projet Montreal during Montreal 2009 municipal elections. Not only did I provide IT support to Cym Gomery's campaign (Website development), but I also did some ground work to promote the Party in NDG neighbourhood. ### Research Assistant @ Université de Sherbrooke Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 Implementation of P25 vocoder which is indented to be embedded in software defined radio station. Profiling and optimizing the code to meet real-time constraints. ### Teaching assistant @ Université de Sherbrooke Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 - Vector calculus for electrical and computer science engineering “GEN650" - Propagation of electromagnetic waves for electrical and computer science engineering “GIF655" ### System engineer @ EmbeddedForge Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 Co-design of time and attendance system, including door control feature. ### Software engineer @ NTIMEDI Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 Developing EDI application (Entreprise Document Interchange) respecting J2EE architecture : -- Data layer : EJB entity (CMP) + Hibernate. -- Business layer : EJB session + Web services. -- Presentation layer : Client (Swing) and rich client (Web 2.0 with Zkoss Framework) ## Education ### Agile Project Management in Computer Science, Management McGill University ### Certificate of Proficiency - English for Professional Communication in Professional Communication McGill University ### M.sc in Electrical and Computer Science Engineering Université de Sherbrooke ### Engineer in Software engineering Université de Sfax ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ramzimaalej --- Source: https://flows.cv/ramzimaalej JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ramzimaalej/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12