Cloud & platform
- Azure architecture, built for scale and uptime
- Infrastructure as code with Terraform
- CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions
Ziad
Antar
Technical lead with 13+ years building cloud platforms. Founder of Antarsoft, where I make products and games, and create content along the way.
Speaks Arabic, Russian and English.
What I do
I design cloud platforms and lead the teams that build them. Through Antarsoft, I also build products and games, for the studio and for clients, and publish content on how they're made.
Systems & backend
- Distributed, event-driven systems
- APIs and backend services built to scale
- Data design across relational and NoSQL stores
Leadership & AI
- Leading teams of 7–10 engineers
- Architecture reviews, standards and roadmaps
- AI agents built into everyday engineering work
Products & games
- End-to-end product delivery for the studio and clients
- Games shipped on Steam, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox and iOS
- Technical content on building and shipping software
Antarsoft
My independent studio. We make our own products and games, and take on a few cloud and engineering projects when the fit is right.
Games we build and ship
Ellen
2D pixel horror: uncover the truth behind the Smith family murder.
The Lost Cube
A speedrun platformer about a magic cube and a guitar.
Cloud work, selectively
For startups and growing teams that want one partner to plan it and build it.
Migration Readiness Audit
Find out what moving or fixing your cloud setup would really take. You get a clear plan, not a sales pitch.
Cloud Foundation Sprint
A production-ready Azure setup: Terraform, dev/staging/prod environments, CI/CD and monitoring, handed over and documented.
Selected work
A few results from leading engineering on an enterprise real-estate platform.
Faster, safer releases
Moved infrastructure to Terraform and rebuilt the CI/CD pipelines, so releases now ship with near-zero downtime.
- New environments
- Before: 1–2 daysAfter: Under 1 hour
- Pipeline run time
- Before: BaselineAfter: 30–50% faster
Content changes without a deploy
Moved hard-coded settings into a database-driven model.
- Routine updates
- Before: 1–2 days + a releaseAfter: 1–2 hours, no deploy
AI in the engineering loop
Added an AI reviewer to every pull request, and an internal assistant that answers questions from the team's own docs and flags what's missing.
13+ years, in short
2021 – now
Engineering Team Lead · Soluis
Leading 7–10 engineers on Azure platforms for enterprise real estate
2020 – 2021
Principal Software Engineer · entourage
Architected a 3D virtual events platform for thousands of concurrent users
2018 – 2020
Lead Software Engineer · Power Interactive
Interactive AR/VR and hardware installations for education, entertainment and transport
2017 – 2018
Lead Software Engineer (contract) · Fractal Systems
Hardware-integrated interactive systems for large-scale events
2015 – 2017
Senior Software Engineer · Etechan International
2D/3D and AR apps with Unity, across mobile and desktop
2014 – 2015
Unity3D Developer · Pixelbug
High-performance Unity apps with native plugins across platforms
2012
B.Sc. Computer Engineering
University of Kalamoon
Let's talk
Open to conversations about engineering leadership, cloud platforms, and Antarsoft projects. CV available on request.