Munich, Germany · Product Engineer · Full-Stack
I'm Hesham Hassan — a senior product engineer with thirteen years of building web products for Mercedes-AMG, Unilever, Henkel and Volvo Trucks. Right now I lead the architecture of ChefAI, Unilever Food Solutions' AI assistant for professional chefs.
Eight years as the engineer clients talk to directly. I find the business goal behind a request, shape the scope with product owners and architects, challenge requirements when there’s a better option, and present the result myself.
UI, APIs, AWS Lambda and the data underneath. React and Next.js on the front, Node.js route handlers and microservice integrations behind them, Playwright and Jest keeping it honest — and a UX design background so the whole thing feels right.
Agentic, streaming LLM experiences in production: custom SSE parsing, reasoning kept apart from the answer, fallbacks that never lose a conversation. And agentic workflows (Claude, Cursor, Copilot) in my team’s daily delivery.
Lead architect. Agentic, streaming assistant that generates recipes, analyses menus and tailors advice to each chef’s business — live in ~20 markets, with 0 KB of framework JavaScript on content pages.
Full-stack on Next.js App Router, Sanity and AWS: registration across owner categories, member profiles, events and posts for ~12,000 owners.
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