Founder and CTO
Etienne Daher
Etienne Daher is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Ete-services. He works closely with the team and with clients on solution design, software architecture, and project delivery.
- Role
- Founder and Chief Technology Officer
- Organization
- Ete-services
- Nationality
- Lebanese
- Education
- Lebanese American University
- Location
- Batroun, Lebanon
Early life and career
In the early 2010s he finished computer engineering studies at the Lebanese American University. In March 2017 he founded Ete-services, a small technology firm that designs and builds end-to-end software for small and mid-sized companies as well as larger organizations. He divides his time between Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States.
How he works with clients
He is curious about Web3, blockchain, and artificial intelligence. Clients come from many industries, and he enjoys learning from each of them. He helps them name the goal, choose the measures of success, set the budget, and agree on milestones, deliverables, and dependencies. From there he lays out a schedule and a communication plan the whole group can follow.
Leadership and technical work
- He works alongside the team across product interfaces, server systems, quality, and operations, and joins them in agile sprint planning.
- Together with the team, he has helped backend systems handle more than ten thousand simultaneous requests through distributed caching and load balancing.
- Infrastructure automation, Kubernetes autoscaling, and closer capacity planning have helped reduce cloud spend by roughly 35 to 42 percent.
- He has worked on ranking, recommendation, and analytics engines using TensorFlow and Bayesian neural networks.
- He has contributed to decentralized products with wallet sign-in, smart-contract flows, and blockchain connections.
- He tries to keep engineering, design, and the business moving in the same direction.