Amjad Khader

Delivery Leadership & Survey Product Ownership

• Served as Engineering Manager for the transition period, Team Pegasus: Assumed delivery management, cross-team dependency coordination, and team leadership responsibilities, ensuring zero service disruptions.
• Led the design phase (UI/UX and system design) for Voting Survey in partnership with UX and product, and delivered it end-to-end. Resolved critical Survey defects for enterprise customers, including a data processing bottleneck causing HTTP 5XX errors that blocked LeanIX’s most significant customer from creating new Surveys.
• Designed a safe release mechanism for Survey features, decreased revert PRs by 70%, bugs by 50%, sped up migration by 2x, and increased engineer productivity by 80%.
• Driving the Feature Flag service via RFC discussions across teams to enable gradual rollouts for all LeanIX teams, built end-to-end using an AI-powered PDLC.

Product Partnership & AI-native Development

• Attending customer interviews to understand pain points firsthand; proposed a 2-step audit log and history for Automations to improve transparency. Automations Audit Log is the first phase of this product vision.
• Shaping the scope and direction of AI-Assisted Automations and the Automations Audit Log, defining next steps based on customer needs and technical feasibility.
• Mentored engineers and guided the scope and feature shape for AI-Assisted Automations and Automations Audit Log, delivering AI-powered features as part of LeanIX’s AI-native product development approach.

People Development & Team Enablement

• Provided career growth conversations, mentoring, and timely feedback to engineers on the team, including running regular 1:1s.
• Launched the Tech Talk & Coffee series to share knowledge and create space for engineers to present ideas and grow as contributors.
• Defined and operationalized the EPIC Lead role, established clear responsibilities, standards, and expectations that empowered engineers to lead initiatives autonomously, increasing team productivity by 90%.
• Defined the Team Guard program, reducing ad-hoc distractions by 80% and shielding team focus during sprints.
• Led a documentation-first initiative that reduced duplicate discussions and unnecessary meetings by 90%, making Confluence documentation paired with Jira EPICs the standard way of working within the team.

Hiring & Talent Acquisition

• Shadowed the Engineering Manager, conducting interviews for the Backend Engineer role, gaining exposure to the full hiring evaluation process.
• Led live-coding interview sessions alongside Engineering Managers for Backend Engineer candidates, assessing technical ability and team fit.

Cross-team Alignment & Organizational Impact

• Served as the go-to person for On-Call Duty topics across the A&C tribe, coordinating incident response across teams.
• Running Incident Fire Drill processes for proactive incident preparedness across LeanIX.
• Appointed Security Champion 2026, ensuring A&C tribe teams maintain security compliance.

• Built a Microservices Architecture SaaS solution, with +1 Million unique visits/month: improved processing speed by 50%.
• Led the delivery of Open-ended absences, managing +35k requests/day.
• Delivered Monitors and Alerts that decreased bug open time by 50% and helped decrease error rate to 3%.
• Delivered Unpaid leave requests that increased the accuracy of Personio Payrolls from 90% to 93%.
• Fostered a collaborative environment through code reviews and constructive feedback to elevate overall team performance.

• Built Microservices Architecture Solution, with 100k requests/day; improved response time by 6x and accuracy by 16%.
• Led the delivery of a Search Engine that increased response time from 5s to 0.5s.
• Delivered NLU and decision-making modules that impacted response accuracy from 79% to 95%.
• Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders using Agile methodologies. Conducted 10+ technical interviews.
• Fostered a collaborative environment through code reviews and constructive feedback, and mentored teammates to elevate overall team performance.

• Built a Microservices Architecture Solution for +10 Million users globally.
• Delivered KYC Banking that reduced response time by 60%.
• Led a team of 4 engineers, providing mentorship and guiding the team to success through 1:1s and growth plans.