Bishoy Awad

Mar 2022 — Present

Development Expert / Architect

SAP SE (SAP Signavio) — Berlin

• Shape the architecture of the process modeling & governance products used by enterprise customers worldwide.
• Drive AI capabilities in the product — process intelligence, variant detection and agentic assistants that help customers make sense of how their business actually runs.
• Act as the central enabling function across product teams: absorb platform-wide moves so feature teams keep shipping, and mentor engineers on architecture and delivery.

Jan 2021 — Feb 2022

Backend Development Lead

Nomitri GmbH — Berlin

• Built the product platform behind an AI-powered autonomous shopping experience for retailers, from first line to live pilots.
• Owned everything behind the scenes end to end — the shopping app, the retail integrations and the operations tooling around them.
• Hired, onboarded and led a cross-functional team of five across backend, mobile and infrastructure.

Oct 2019 — Dec 2020

Lead Software Engineer

Commerzbank — Berlin

• Led the new mobile notification and transaction-approval product serving more than 3 million banking customers.
• Took the product from a blank page to a regulated, always-on service the bank's apps depend on for secure logins and payment approvals.
• Led a team of twelve — four internal engineers and eight partner engineers — covering planning, quality and delivery.

Sep 2018 — Sep 2019

Lead Software Engineer

DKB (Deutsche Kreditbank) — Berlin

• Technical lead for the digitalisation of the bank's credit process, replacing manual steps with an automated journey.
• Owned two products in that journey: automated credit decisioning and customer document handling.
• Guided the engineering team and worked closely with business stakeholders on process and rules.

Jul 2016 — Aug 2018

Senior Software Engineer

Klarna — Berlin

• Brought flagship merchants live on Klarna's pay-later product, working directly with their teams through launch.
• Created a virtual-card product that let shoppers pay later on merchant platforms that only accepted cards, opening a new set of partners.

Sep 2015 — Jun 2016

Java Backend Engineer

Omio GmbH — Berlin

• Expanded the travel booking product with new flight and bus providers, growing what travellers could book.
• Built internal tooling for travel and location data used daily by the operations team.

Sep 2014 — Aug 2015

Java Backend Engineer

Mubasher International — Egypt

• Delivered features for financial market data products used by traders, focused on speed and reliability.

Feb 2012 — Aug 2014

Java Backend Engineer

EME International — Egypt

• Built features for a sales-force mobility product and connected it to customers' business systems, supporting them through rollout.

Architecture

• Microservices
• Self-Contained Systems
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Multi-tenancy & cloud migration
• Legacy modernisation

AI & ML

• RAG, embeddings & semantic search
• Agentic & multi-agent systems
• LangChain / LangGraph
• OpenAI & Anthropic SDKs, MCP
• Clustering, scikit-learn
• Prompt engineering & evaluation

Languages & Backend

• Java / Kotlin / Python / SQL
• Spring Boot, JPA / Hibernate
• REST / gRPC, FastAPI
• Android (Kotlin/Java)

Messaging & Data

• Kafka / RabbitMQ
• PostgreSQL / MySQL
• pgvector & vector databases
• Keycloak / identity

Cloud & DevOps

• SAP BTP, GCP, AWS, Azure
• Regulated & dedicated cloud landscapes
• Kubernetes, Docker
• GitOps (ArgoCD), Terraform
• GitLab CI / GitHub Actions

2007 — 2012

M.Sc. Computer and Systems Engineering

Ain Shams University — Egypt

Certifications

• iSAQB CPSA-F
• SAP DAXC (in progress)

Spoken languages

• English — Fluent
• German — Fluent (German national)
• Arabic — Native