Dareen Alhyari

Dareen Alhyari is an accomplished tech leader, celebrated in both the UAE and the US. She is the founder and leader of DuBytes, Dubai's largest tech community group, with nearly 2,000 members, where she has organized monthly tech talks for years. Alhyari is also recognized for launching and coordinating Technovation Challenge in Jordan, which educates and mentors school girls who aspire to pursue a career in tech. She has worked as a trainer and mentor in hackathons and tech events like WOWZAPP and Startup Weekend, and has been chosen to judge several startup competitions. Alhyari has spoken at several public events, including Microsoft OpenDoors and Women in STEM by Meera Kaul Foundation. She is a member of the Arab Women In Computing (AWIC) study since 2013, led by Prof. Sana Odeh, NewYork University.

Alhyari has expertise in technologies like Python, Django, Java, SpringBoot, Redis, Celery, Bull, ElasticSearch, Kibana, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Memcached, AWS, RabbitMQ, Chef, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, New Relic, Splunk, Jenkins, Bottle, Flask, Smartstack, Nerve, Synapse, Zookeeper, HAProxy, .Net, Microsoft Dynamics Suite, C#, Entity Framework, WCF, Team Foundation Server (TFS), .NET Framework, LINQ, Build & Deployment Automation, Desktop Applications, Enterprise Solutions, C++, Win32 APIs, and Game Development using Trinigy Vision and DirectX.

She studied Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computer Information Systems at University of Jordan, where she earned a GPA of 3.63. She also studied Science at Hitteen High School and earned a grade of 99.4%. After pursuing her undergraduate studies, Alhyari obtained her Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Warwick - Warwick Business School.

Currently, Alhyari is working as a Software Engineering Manager at Google. Previously, she served as Engineering Manager at Expedia Group, Senior Software Engineer (Backend) for dubizzle at OLX Group, and System Platform Engineer (DevOps) for OLX Group. She was also recognized as a TechWomen Emerging Leader at NetApp and Technical Team Lead at Softact (Microsoft Gold Partner). She has worked as a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) at Softact (Microsoft Gold Partner), Founder and CTO at PlusSoft Ltd., Software Engineer at NASSONS Entertainment Studios, and Computer Retail (Working Student) at Fun Directory.