
Refat Baderkhan
Interdisciplinary Curiosity | Syria <> Egypt
Salary / Daily rate
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Work experience
Global Programme Officer
Private Consultancy
Sep 2024 - Present
2 years 2 months
• Designing, managing, and implementing socially responsible tours and programmes in Egypt and abroad • Managing end-to-end logistics, including accommodations, transportation, venue bookings, and strategic partnerships • Identifying, mapping, and building rapport with local partners and establishments in the cultural, tourism, and service industry
Software Engineer
Sandbase - Unified Energy Ops Platform
Mar 2024 - Jul 2025
1 year 5 months
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
• Architecting and continuously optimizing a real-time, event-driven system for solar stations, using a tech stack of RabbitMQ, FastAPI, and InfluxDB/TimescaleDB • Redesigning and implementing a validation and calculation engine to improve processing speed, while accelerating deployment cycles through a modular plugin architecture and automated testing • Translating product vision into actionable technical requirements by bridging the gap between product and engineering teams and assessing technical feasibility • Designing and developing new user interfaces for platform features, while simultaneously maintaining a legacy UI and executing a phased migration to a new front-end • Implementing a secure, multi-tenant authentication system using role-based access control and OAuth2 to manage user permissions across diverse organizations
Project Manager
FITEX
Oct 2018 - May 2022
3 years 8 months
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
• Contributing to the launching of an SME for fabric manufacturing • Tasks included the setting up of processes for obtaining business licenses and certifications, creating corporate structures and departments, managing supply chains and documentation cycles, implementing a new ERP system • Managing a team of 10, developing new projects, monitoring KPIs • Account Management and Sales tasks
Customer Service Officer
Bank of Syria and Overseas
May 2017 - Oct 2018
1 year 6 months
Aleppo, Syria
• Front Office Management and handling of financial transactions • Customer Service and Account Management
Education
Aleppo University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Finance, General
2011 - 2016
4 years 9 months
Licenses & certifications
Full-Stack Web Development Bootcamp
Issued: Oct 2023
Advanced Financial Management
Issued: Apr 2017
Scrum Master Certified (SMC)
Issued: Jun 2016