Hatem Nassrat
Chief Technology Officer at LeadSift
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolHatem Nassrat is a veteran technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Halifax, Canada, with 17 years of experience architecting high-availability, data-intensive systems. He leads engineering at LeadSift, focusing on real-time search over terabytes of data, machine learning classification, and resilient cloud architectures while remaining hands-on across Python, Scala, Elasticsearch, and AWS. His career spans senior technical roles building scalable web and search platforms—from GenieKnows to enterprise consulting for oil and gas—demonstrating deep expertise in back-end engineering, NLP, and systems automation. An early open-source contributor to the Python Twitter API library, he has a practical appreciation for API design and robust HTTP handling. Known for a problem-solving mindset that treats technical limits as imagination challenges, he blends product-focused engineering with operational rigor.
17 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MACS Computer Science Databases Data Representation Web Interfaces Combintorial Block Designs, MACS Computer Science Databases Data Representation Web Interfaces Combintorial Block Designs at Dalhousie UniversityIGCSE IGCSE, IGCSE IGCSE at British International School of JeddahBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at The American University in Cairo
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (24)
git10
github10
python10
apidoc10
django10
git-repository10
request-handler10
twitter-api10
urllib10
api10
webrequest10
http-request10
httpwebrequest10
putty10
phantomjs10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
python-twitter-tools/twitter
Jan 2009 - Jun 2013
Python Twitter API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Hatem primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality of the Python Twitter API library. They introduced features such as agent string customization, domain selection for Twitter API calls, and transitioned from httplib to urllib2 for API requests. Moreover, they automated the generation of POST action lists and made improvements related to error handling. The commits demonstrate an understanding of API design, HTTP request handling, and library maintenance.
python-twitter
pykler/MiniMockTest
Aug 2011 - Apr 2020
Python unittest TestCase that wraps minimock for easier use
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 8 years 9 months
python-unittesttestcase
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