Mazen Khalil

A non-profit decentralized health network for disease surveillance, offering analytical tools, methods and system for controlling and preventing transborder patterns of infections diseases.

Serving as the main liaison between Alef Education and the contracting company (Metaverse developers). • Understand the technical aspects of the metaverse and ensure that the development team is aligned with best practices and guidelines for building a secure and scalable platform. • Coordinate with design, engineering, and other teams to ensure smooth integration of features and functionalities, fostering a collaborative environment. • Work closely with the development team to translate requirements into actionable features that enhance the educational experience within the metaverse. • Oversee the testing and quality assurance processes to ensure that the platform meets the desired standards and delivers a seamless user experience. • Ensure that the metaverse project complies with privacy regulations and security standards, safeguarding user data and maintaining a safe online environment for educational activities. • Regularly communicate project updates, timelines, and challenges to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment with the project goals. • Managing and mitigating risks related to the project.

Provide high level technical architecture, feature design, and technology consulting. • Engage with business stakeholders to understand required capabilities, integrating business knowledge with technical solutions. • Participate in strategy building with core product leadership. • Analyze & match the system capability to satisfy essential stakeholder concerns and requirements. • Review and enhance current system architecture, deployment and processes to help mitigate technical debt and streamline processes to be more efficient and effective. • Analyze solution approaches and manage solution architecture diagrams. • Oversee the strategic deployment of the resources leading to optimal resource allocation and smooth and successful software development. • Ensure continuous optimization of performance in close collaboration with the operations team. • Foster a culture of sharing knowledge, best practices and standards. • Coordinate and encourage the further personal development of the engineering teams through training, workshops and other activities. • Discover potential risks and areas for improvement.

Secure Mobility, Blockchain, IoT • Consult multiple governmental institutions in the Middle East with secure mobility, sensitive data protection & blockchain topics. • Design military grade encryption protocol and OTA key exchange scheme utilizing the baseband processor on mobile devices. • Implement Secure Element (SE) lifecycle management & key exchange solution for closed networks. • Design and implement HW based key storage mechanism utilizing the Secure Element (SE). • Design and implement true end-to-end secure communication protocol for closed networks. • Utilize Whitebox Cryptography (WBC) in SW based high security solution implementation. • Android Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) trustlet development, remote provisioning, and integration with Secure Elements. • Design and setup decentralized network based on Samsung SDS Nexledger blockchain platform backed by Hyperledger fabric & Ethereum.

• Technical Product Manager for Samsung Business Suite. Architects the platform and leads the development. • Lead the R&D process optimization (Jira, DevOps, Source Control & Authorization). • Kickoff regional projects for customers and partners in the ME region. • Analyze custom project requirements and draw development and deployment architectures. • Design and implement solutions for mobile device management and security. • Provide regional technical trainings and architectural guidance on Samsung Knox products and SDK’s.

• Design, develop and implement software solutions using Java EE technologies. • Maintain, refactor, and enhance existing products. • Meet customers to collect requirements and design business solutions. • Report project updates to team leads, Project Managers, Development managers and the CTO. • Enhance company’s Software Development Process by adopting continuous integration practices effectively. • Work within agile environment. Technologies/Tools Used: Java (Core, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, JSF, JAXB (XML), JAX-WS (SOAP), JAX-RS (REST)), Jython, JUnit, Apache Lucene, Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, ANT, Maven, Jenkins, SoapUI, Eclipse