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I'm Amjad Khader, an engineering leader based in Berlin. I'm currently a Senior Software Engineer at SAP LeanIX with domain ownership of the Survey product, and recently served as Acting Engineering Manager for Team Pegasus during a transition period. I build systems that let engineering teams do their best work — and I ship AI-native product features that customers actually use.

Impact

Initiatives I've defined, led, or delivered — with the outcomes they produced.

Delivery & technical leadership

  • Safe release mechanism for Survey. Designed a release approach that turned risky Survey changes into routine ones.Revert PRs −70% · Bugs −50% · Migration speed 2× · Engineer productivity +80%
  • Voting Survey, end-to-end. Led UI/UX and system design in partnership with Product and UX, then delivered the feature into production.
  • Resolved a customer-blocking Survey defect. Diagnosed and fixed a data-processing bottleneck producing HTTP 5XX errors that had blocked LeanIX's largest enterprise customer from creating new surveys.
  • Acting Engineering Manager, Team Pegasus. Assumed delivery management, cross-team dependency coordination, and team leadership during a transition period —zero service disruptions through the handover.

Team systems that scale autonomy

  • EPIC Lead role. Defined and operationalized a role that empowered engineers to lead initiatives autonomously, with explicit standards and expectations.Team productivity +90%
  • Team Guard program. Defined a rotation and rules of engagement that shielded the team's focus during sprints without making any one engineer a bottleneck.Ad-hoc distractions −80%
  • Documentation-first. Led an initiative pairing Confluence documentation with Jira EPICs as the standard way of working.Duplicate discussions and unnecessary meetings −90%
  • Tech Talk & Coffee. Launched a knowledge-sharing series that created space for engineers to present ideas and grow as contributors.
  • Career growth conversations. Ran regular 1:1s with timely feedback and mentoring for engineers across the team.

AI-native product development

  • AI-Assisted Automations & Automations Audit Log. Currently shaping the scope and direction of both features at LeanIX, mentoring engineers through delivery, and defining next steps from customer needs and technical feasibility.
  • 2-step audit log proposal for Automations. Proposed the original product vision after firsthand customer interviews; the Automations Audit Log is its first phase.
  • Feature Flag service via AI-powered PDLC. Driving end-to-end design and delivery via cross-team RFC, built using an AI-powered product development lifecycle.
  • NLU and decision-making engines at Mawdoo3.Response accuracy 79% → 95%

Hiring & talent

  • Led live-coding interviews alongside Engineering Managers for Backend Engineer candidates — assessing both technical ability and team fit.
  • Shadowed EM-led interviews across the full Backend Engineer hiring loop, gaining exposure to every stage of the evaluation process.
  • Conducted 10+ technical interviews at Mawdoo3, working with cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate candidates.

Cross-team & organizational

  • On-Call Duty go-to for the A&C tribe at LeanIX — coordinated incident response across teams.
  • Incident Fire Drills. Running proactive incident-preparedness exercises across LeanIX.
  • Security Champion 2026 — ensuring A&C tribe teams maintain security compliance.

Career arc

Most proud of — HighSign

An application assisting people with hearing or speech disorders. Converts Speech-To-Text and Text-To-Speech, facilitating communication. HighSign helped 50+ active users/month and was selected as one of the top 5 projects in the Microsoft Innovation Center in 2016.

How I work

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science
Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT)

Languages

Arabic: Native speaker · English: Highly proficient

Get in touch

Full resume available on request — email me.