Draft:Tameem Hourani

Tameem Hourani is a distinguished American technology entrepreneur born in Bahrain in 1988. As an American based founder, in 2019 Tameem launched RapDev, a fast growing consulting company that specializes in DevOps, monitoring, and ServiceNow integrations. Tameem was born in Manama, and spent the majority of his teenage years there. After completing his Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering Technology from Wentworth Institute of Technology, he went on to study a High Tech Masters of Business Administration at Northeastern University. Under his leadership, RapDev.io has grown into a trusted partner for organizations looking to enhance their technological infrastructure and streamline their operations.

Career
Tameem started his career in 2009 working at Cubist Pharmaceuticals as a Network/IP Telephony Analyst in Lexington, MA. After just under 2 years there he joined Dell EMC as a Senior Manager in Global IT Service OPs where he spent 4 years in that role. He then joined Boston based Software Development company PTC as a Senior Director in Cloud Services NOC, a role which he carried out for a year before launching his own tech company with David Tanner focused on enhancing the experience of charging electric vehicles and enabling multi-modal and last mile transportation alternatives called Charj. He led Charj for over 2 years before leaving to join American e-commerce company Wayfair as Director of Production Operations for 3 years which he credits as one of the reasons that led him to start his own business — particularly the tech skills of Steve Conine, who co-founded the Boston online furniture retailer in 2002. Tameem is currently the Principle of of RapDev.io which he founded in 2019, RapDev is the go-to partner for Fortune 1000 organizations looking to accelerate and optimize their DataDog and ServiceNow implementations. As a trusted Datadog Gold Partner and ServiceNow Elite Partner, RapDev offers unparalleled expertise in implementation at scale. RapDev expertly guides organizations through their Engineering and DevOps transformations from beginning to end.

RapDev
The company was established with the vision of becoming a leading consulting firm specializing in DevOps, monitoring, and ServiceNow integrations and moved towards developing software or mobile apps faster through a combination of proprietary tools as well. Leveraging Tameem's extensive experience and insights into rapid software development methodologies, RapDev.io quickly carved out a niche for itself in the tech industry. In 2024, RapDev won it's third consecutive DataDog Partner of the Year from the DataDog Partner Network (DPN) as well as the DPN Marketplace Partner of the Year. The DPN award winners were chosen based on the partners' revenue contribution and growth, product and service expansion, and their proven commitment to providing their customers with the innovation, services, and support needed to build and scale their businesses. RapDev was selected as the DPN Partner of the Year– North America because of its commitment to innovation in go-to-market activities with DataDog. Over the past year, RapDev expanded its DataDog-specific teams, extended its presence internationally, and expanded its reach to include US Public Sector customers. As well as the awards from DPN the company has also landed in second place in 2024’s Boston Business Journal's (BBJ) Fast 50 list of the fastest-growing private companies. Away from all the awards and accolades RepDev has acquired over the years, Tameem credits the companies success to the people involved in the company, although he wants to hire "engineers, engineers, engineers" he values the consulting aspect of the job just as much as the technical aspect stating that "consulting is a skill in itself which people tend to neglect".

In April 2024 RapDev was awarded its first patent for CSDM as code, a configuration management tool tailored for Platform as a Service (PaaS) environments. With this milestone, RapDev marks its commitment to furthering the engineering development landscape within the ServiceNow ecosystem.