Hi, I’m Hossam Fares

AI Founding Engineer. Applied AI with frontier models and agent harnesses.

I take AI products from idea to production for early-stage teams, backed by 17+ years of engineering and leadership across fintech, e-commerce and enterprise software.

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Experience at

Wellis
Adyen
Zoover
VONQ
HelloPrint
Namshi

Applied AI, grounded in production engineering.

I’ve led and mentored development teams through more than 50 projects across fintech, e-commerce and enterprise software, from monolith migrations to cloud-native platforms.

Now I bring that depth to applied AI: frontier models, agent harnesses, and the guardrails that make them safe to ship. It’s the end-to-end ownership a founding team needs.

Years of experience: 17+
Projects delivered: 50+
Engineers mentored: 25+
Technologies: 20+

What I do

Applied AI & agent harnesses: Frontier models, LLM integration, agentic workflows, AI security and guardrails
Founding engineering & technical leadership: Zero-to-one architecture, team building, mentoring, Agile (Scrum & Kanban)
Backend development: Node.js, Python, PHP and service-oriented architecture
Cloud & DevOps: AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
FinTech & payments: Payment systems, financial APIs, e-commerce

Where I’ve worked

All 11 projects

Jul 2026 - Present
Founding Product Lead & Applied AI Engineer
Wellis
Founding product lead and applied AI engineer at Wellis, a Rotterdam health-tech startup building an integrated health platform for the Netherlands.
Applied AIAgentic WorkflowsLLMsProduct Leadership+1
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May 2023 - Mar 2026
Staff | Senior Payments Integration Engineer
Adyen
Payments integration engineering at Adyen, one of the world's largest payment processors, serving merchants like Facebook, Uber, H&M and Microsoft.
PHPJavaScriptMagento 2Shopware 6+4
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Nov 2020 - Apr 2023
Backend Engineering Lead
Zoover
Led backend architecture and the backend team at Zoover: scalable services, technical vision and team enablement on Google Cloud Platform.
Google Cloud PlatformApp EngineCloud RunPython+6
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What colleagues say

“Over the past 5 years, Hossam has established himself as one of the key figures in our tech team. As the company grew, his contributions did as well.”

Alessandro NadalinSenior Vice President of Technology, noon

“I got to know Hossam as an experienced engineer that is full of innovative ideas and eager to learn. Not only did he pitch several innovative ideas. Furthermore he executed several of them.”

Bart van de GardeCTO, VONQ