Qays is the breadth-engineer of the team. Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mosul, who pivoted into software via a Flatiron front-end bootcamp and a pair of entrepreneurship incubators. Software Engineer at Sennheiser Consumer Hearing (part of Sonova Group) in Hannover since late 2023 — software for audio products that travel to millions of ears.
Before Sennheiser, two years at Codesphere — an online IDE and cloud platform serving 40,000+ developers — where he cut Webpack build time by 50%, shaved 40% off bundle size, and shipped a unified design system in LitElement that doubled feature-delivery speed. Concurrently CTO or co-founder of a string of startups across Iraq, Jordan, France and the US — fintech (Medchar), real-estate (Hasara), entertainment (RYVO), e-commerce (Bkra), each with the Flutter + Firebase substrate. One stop in 2018, between all that: engineering-drawing consultant for the bottom outlet of the Mosul Dam.
Organizer at GDG Erbil — the third community-organiser on the team, after Nick (Imagineering) and Robin (also Imagineering). Codes across Flutter, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, Arduino IoT, MATLAB and CAD. The kind of toolkit that comes from genuinely needing each tool at least once.