Ahmed M.

Ahmed M.

Senior Software Engineer

Cairo, Egypt
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About Me

Ahmed is a Senior Full-stack Developer and DevOps Engineer with 13+ years of industry experience building and launching innovative products for millions of users. He also leads software development teams to achieve more by facilitating persistent interaction between business and tech stakeholders.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Software Engineer
2018 - Present (6 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.

  • Participating in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.

  • Ensuring that features are being delivered efficiently and on time.

Aurea Software
Aurea Software
Software Architect
2017 - 2019 (2 years)
Remote
  • Provided technical expertise and guidance to different companies in migrating their systems to more modern, cloud-friendly tech stacks.

  • Doubled productivity for 50 software engineers by building an automation tool to implement CI/CD pipelines.

  • Evaluated and made recommendations to clients on the right tools, frameworks, and software solutions for diverse/complex problems.

nResult
nResult
Senior Software Engineer
2017 - 2017
Remote
  • Developed a SaaS application to collect and process end-user feedback from all over the internet for the company.

  • Increased the application's overall throughput by 20% after replacing the logging mechanism with a more performant solution.

  • Developed a cross-platform smart-client application and back-end API to explore analyzed data on the system.

Sarmady
Sarmady
Development Team Lead
2012 - 2017 (5 years)
Cairo, Egypt
  • Led a team of 7 developers to build and deploy different high-traffic web applications for clients.

  • Delivered weekly training sessions to team members on modern technologies and approaches, boosting production uptime by 200%.

  • Oversaw the transition of Sarmady's stack to a SaaS model from the dedicated repo system, leading to faster acquisition of new customers.

Kngine (acquired by Samsung)
Kngine (acquired by Samsung)
Software Development Engineer
2011 - 2012 (1 year)
Cairo, Egypt
  • Led a small unit in owning and building web applications to interact with the company's core AI engine.

  • Built a custom rendering server to keep response time below 10 milliseconds.

  • Promoted to co-founder after 3 months of joining and helped Kngine acquisition by Samsung.

iSource
iSource
Senior Software Developer
2009 - 2011 (2 years)
Cairo, Egypt
  • Provided technical expertise and direction for the development of a custom ERP system for iSource.

  • Designed and developed a rapid application development framework that helped cut features time-to-market by 40%.

  • Developed a custom warehouse management module for iSource through all the phases of the development lifecycle.

MOVE-IT (now MOHR)
MOVE-IT (now MOHR)
Software Developer
2005 - 2009 (4 years)
Cairo, Egypt
  • Provided technical expertise and custom software development services for clients.

  • Wrote a multi-language code generator to help developers bootstrap new projects by spending less time on boilerplate code.

  • Provided technical leadership and direction for the development team, which led to 7x increase in team output and numbers in 5 years.

Portfolio

Principal Developer - Freedom Tools
Principal Developer - Freedom Tools

Freedom Tools is a multi-tenant SaaS project management application for enterprise companies helping clients track day-to-day achievements without losing focus on long-term plans. Led the team for the launch of the first version in 3 months, co-architecting the solution from the ground up and delivering a full-stack product with Microsoft Azure environment provisioning, CI setup, database design, back-end and front-end development, and cross-platform mobile app prototype.

Software Architect - Kayako
Software Architect - Kayako

Kayako is a customer support platform with notable features like an integrated helpdesk, live chat, shared inbox, etc. that helps teams to be more productive while delivering exceptional customer service. Prepared and executed a migration plan helping Kayako move from legacy stack to running on a Kubernetes cluster with dockerized microservices backed by fully automated CI/CD pipelines, leading to $200K yearly cost savings.

Principal Developer - MOHR Attend
Principal Developer - MOHR Attend

MOHR Attend is a SaaS product with a mobile app that helps employees manage work hours by using the product's facial recognition feature for check-ins and checkouts on the job from any place and at any time. Researched, architected, and built the new mobile app to boost accuracy, performance, and reliability to achieve a 100% increase in conversion rate.

Education

B.Com Commerce
B.Com Commerce
Benha University - Egypt
1999 - 2003 (4 years)