Elias Abou Jaoude
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Elias Abou Jaoude

Software engineer building production systems and useful products across healthcare access, creator commerce, and AI-assisted job search.

I work across backend systems, product engineering, and pragmatic infrastructure. Most recently, I was an SDE at Amazon Prime Video, where I helped build and operate encoding orchestration systems processing tens of thousands of workflows daily. Since Amazon, I have been actively building public products: Dr. Ordo, PIE, and HiredSignal.

Experience

Jan 2022 - Aug 2025 Toronto, Canada

Software Development Engineer

Amazon

  • Worked on the Prime Video Encoding Orchestration team.
  • Designed and implemented a DAG-based orchestration system to improve scalability and process reuse.
  • Refactored monolithic branching workflows into simpler linear workflows, reducing remediation time from hours to minutes.
  • Participated in cross-functional delivery and on-call operations for production systems.
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022 Montreal, Canada

C#/WPF Developer, Associate

Morgan Stanley

  • Built desktop applications supporting Fixed Income and FX products.
  • Worked with C#, MVVM architecture, object-oriented design patterns, and globally distributed teams.
Feb 2020 - Jun 2021 Montreal, Canada

Front-End Developer

IVeS Inc.

  • Built client-side applications for accessibility software for deaf and hard-of-hearing users.
  • Led development of a UWP app in C# on the Microsoft Store with more than 1,000 downloads.
May 2019 - Oct 2019 Beirut, Lebanon

Full Stack Developer, Contract

Megaphone

  • Architected megaphone.news for a Lebanese media activist group.
  • Built the front end with React and integrated a headless WordPress CMS backend.
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019 Beirut, Lebanon

Backend and Machine Learning Developer

Seez-App S.A.L

  • Built Python microservices supporting machine learning features.
  • Worked on gradient boosting for price prediction and NLP models for chatbot functionality.

Skills

Languages & frameworks

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • C#

Systems & data

  • System design
  • Microservices
  • Workflow orchestration
  • PostgreSQL
  • DynamoDB
  • Headless CMS

AWS & infrastructure

  • Lambda
  • ECS
  • Step Functions
  • SQS
  • SNS
  • CloudWatch
  • Infrastructure as code (CDK)
  • Docker
  • CI/CD

Engineering practices

  • Testing
  • Code review
  • On-call operations
  • Cross-functional delivery
  • Accessibility

Credentials

Education

  • MSc Biomedical Engineering Imperial College London Graduated with merit, Oct 2016
  • BE Computer Engineering American University of Beirut Minor in Mathematics, May 2015
  • BE Chemistry American University of Beirut Graduated with distinction, May 2015

Certification

  • AWS Certified Developer - Associate, Amazon Web Services, Sep 2025

Languages

  • English, French, Arabic - fluent
  • German, Spanish, Romanian - conversational

Contact

Lebanese-Canadian, based in Beirut, Lebanon - authorized to work in Canada with no sponsorship, and open to remote roles. Best reached by email or LinkedIn for engineering roles, product collaborations, and useful ideas worth building.

eliasaboujaoude92@gmail.com LinkedIn profile