Fabrice Kabongo
Director of Engineering at Talabat / Delivery Hero
- Dubai, UAE
- +971 56 47 59 000
- fabrice.k.kabongo@gmail.com
Leading the Tribe responsible for technologies to help our partner acquire and retain customers, maintain their menu, and receive orders placed on the Talabat platform.
My tribe focuses on the following:
This tribe has around 65+ engineers, 4 staff engineers, engineering managers, and senior engineering managers.
While closely with a senior director of product and leaders of design and data, who lead together another 30 people, bringing the tribe to around 100+ people.
> Double Ad Revenue YoY again by launching new ad products (8 digits increments in euro)
> Launched Talabat Pro.
> Launched an ad revenue recovery service: reduced ad revenue loss by 90% (mid six digits saving in euros per year)
> Tech Stack: K8S, Docker, C# & .Net Core, Golang, Postgres (RDS) , DynamoDB, AWS, ReactJS, Node, Flutter, Swift, Kotlin, Kafka
Leading the Tribe responsible for technologies to help our partner acquire and retain customers on the Talabat platform. Focusing on:
And continued to lead the Talabat Website until we could hire a new manager.
This tribe has around 30 engineers.
> Tech Stack: K8S, Docker, C# & .Net Core, Golang, Postgres (RDS) , DynamoDB, AWS, ReactJS, Node, Flutter, Swift, Kotlin, AngularJs, Kafka
Leading multiple teams across two tribes:
Also, I continued to mentor new managers in our M0 track (Individual contributor to Manager training).
In total, around 15 engineers
> Double Ad Revenue YoY by enabling more seamlessly integrated Ad spots without hurting the user's intent.
> Tech Stack: K8S, Docker, C# & .Net Core, Postgres (RDS), DynamoDB, AWS, ReactJS, NextJS, Node, Flutter, Swift, Kotlin, AngularJs, Kafka
I was responsible for :
I was also part of the tech hiring committee and helped, with other managers, improve the tech culture at Talabat.
I managed two teams (10 positions, only 9 filled at the time) and worked with 2 product managers.
> Introduced Flutter at Talabat by using the web team: for every team that migrated, they have communicated that they could develop around twice as fast. Using web engineers to introduce Flutter, helped showcase just how easy it is to learn.
> Allowed the website team to deliver value after being blocked for 6 months: The team was unable to add new feature in the monolith. We were able to launch groceries on the website and increase the website GMV by 20%.
> Created a program to mentor and train ICs to become Managers.
> Tech Stack: K8S, Docker, C# & .Net Core, Postgres (RDS), AWS, ReactJS, NextJS, Node, Flutter, AngularJs, Kafka
I was responsible for all our B2C teams:
Technologies: LAMP Stack, Symfony 4, ElasticSearch, Redis, Akamai, Nginx, Ansible, Docker, RabbitMQ, NodeJS, ReactJS, PreactJS, Redux, Golang.
Methodologies: OKR, Scrum
I was part of the B2B team working on contract management, property upload, user management, etc
Technologies: LAMP Stack, Zend Framework, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Apache2, Docker, RabbitMQ, Ansible
Technologies: LAMP stack, Symfony 2, Silex, ElasticSearch, Memcached, HAProxy, NodeJS, Docker
Working on the www.junkmail.co.za (Junkmail Digital Media was our customer) project
- Maintaining and adding new functionnalities to website
- Developping the REST API
- Performing Code Review and Quality control of other dev's code before deploying it.
- Maintaining and monitoring Cron Jobs
Technologies LAMP stack, Symfony2, ElasticSearch, Memcached, RabbitMQ, Nginx, NodeJS
I joined the team in a time of crisis, the project was around for 2 years and was still too unstable to be launched.
I had to take care of building a data migration tool (around 2 billion records in MySQL).
Then I joined the core developer team, and I brought my knowledge of Symfony to speed up the project and help to launch the new version of the www.junkmail.co.za (one of the top 3 classified websites in South Africa) on November 2015.
Main tasks:
Technologies LAMP stack, Symfony 2, ElasticSearch, Memcached, RabbitMQ, Nginx
Daniweb-expert is a startup that needed an experienced developer to guide the company in launch process of their main project pata-kazi.com (a job portal).
Main tasks:
Technologies: LAMP stack
I worked mainly on two important projects for the country (DRC), the Katanga business Meeting (biggest economic forum in DRC), Eshop RDC (first eCommerce in DRC):
Main tasks:
Technologies: LAMP stack, Silex, PrestaShop (e-commerce solution)
Translates to : Graduate in computer science, major in software engineering