Syk Houdeib||@Syknapse
Senior Frontend Developer
JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Next
Scalable, Maintainable Solutions | Product-focused | User-centric | AI-assisted development flows
Skills & Experience
Senior Frontend Engineer
Xebia - Madrid (remote)
- Responsibilities: Led the frontend architecture of a greenfield multi-tenant agentic AI platform built on AWS Bedrock. Designed the tech stack, component architecture, and development standards from scratch. The platform enables organisations to configure custom AI agents, connect proprietary data sources, and apply brand theming for their specific use case. Primary application built on the platform: an internal tool connecting company handbook, learning tracks, and HR data to help managers generate personalised development paths for engineers and navigate company policy.
- Working with: React, Typescript, Next (App architecture), pnpm, Zustand, Vitest, Playwright, TanStack React Query & Form, Zod, clsx, ShadCN, TailWind, Mermaid, GitHub actions, Vercel.
- Highlights: Working with AI chatbots. Implementing Server Sent Events to stream AI conversation in real time. Exploring AI-driven solutions
January 2025 - May 2026
Software Engineer II
Glovo - Madrid (remote)
- Responsibilities: Develop a brand new back-office SaaS solution from scratch to manage the grocery delivery operations. Mentoring junior members. Leading initiatives and team organisation.
- Working with: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Jest, React Testing Library, Auth0, Git, KrakenD, Material UI, Google Maps, React Context, GitHub, GitHub CI/CD, Yarn, Lokalise, i18next, Emotion, Node, DayJS, ESLint, React Hook Form, Prettier.
- Highlights: Building a new product from scratch. Delivering the MVP within a very tight time frame. Full documentation. Implementing Auth0 access for roles and permissions. Mentoring and leadership
September 2021 - September 2024
Frontend Developer
Lola Market - Madrid
- Responsibilities: Include developing full features for the web app and the back-office tools. Maintaining and improving the codebase. Participation in the development and the decision-making of the team.
- Working with: React, Next.js, Redux, Immutable, Saga, Yarn, Algolia Search, StoryBook, MJML, Backbone, jQuery, Bitbucket.
- Highlights: Company acquired by Glovo in October 2021. SSR and SEO. Theming for white label. Full internationalisation of the platform. Full migration from Backbone legacy code to React + Redux. Making the entire site responsive.
April 2018 - September 2021
Nanodegree Front End Web Developer
Udacity
- Received a full Google scholarship.
2017
BA(Hons) Creative Music Technology
University of Hull
- Graduated with a First Class BA honours degree.
2006
Learning Tracker GitHub repo
- What it is: This is where I keep track of my skills and my learning. I regularly update it with the latest courses, books, resources, and skills I'm working on. Please click on the link below to check it out.
- Link: Learning Tracker GitHub repo
About
About me
Frontend developer with 8+ years of experience building and iterating on real products. Most of my career has been spent working in product teams shipping MVPs, scaling codebases, and improving live applications used by real users. I care about clean architecture, meaningful test coverage, and documentation that makes teams faster and codebases easier to maintain. Collaborative, product-minded, and always focused on the user, I work closely with experienced engineers and cross-functional partners, and bring a strong sense of ownership to everything I build. Experienced with modern AI-assisted development workflows, including hands-on work building AI chat interfaces.
I’m a career-changer who transitioned into tech at 40, taking the self-directed path to make the switch in just 10 months. An active contributor in the development community with 3497 GitHub stars, most notably for my open source tutorial project Contribute-To-This-Project . I contribute tech articles and have been published in FreeCodeCamp, Hackernoon, Honeypot’s .Cult, and Better Programming, including my widely-read article about transitioning to tech . Before tech, I was a teacher, where I loved working with kids.
Beyond software, I love cooking and exploring food. Deeply enthusiastic about everything to do with music. I like to learn about linguistics, history, science. Curious about everything ever; hummus, strings, words, maps, electrons, pens, sounds, everything!
Projects
Tezia
JS meets minimalism. Music and colour experiments
Pixel Art Maker
A web app to draw pixelated art
Contribute To This Project
A tutorial to help first-timers make their first open source contribution on GitHub
GitHub User Search
An app to search for GitHub users and see public details
Cross the Buggy Road
A clone of the classic arcade game Frogger
Tycho's Supernova
Tribute to a star that changed the world
Neighborhood Map
Explore places on a neighborhood map
Temperature converter
A fully functional, responsive Celsius-Fahrenheit conversion app
Patatap clone
A clone of patatap.com, pressing the letters on the keyboard produces sounds and animations
RGB Color Guessing Game
Guess the color that corresponds to the RGB code. A fully playable colour guessing game
