Ahmed M.

Ahmed M.

Senior Software Engineer

Mohandiseen, Egypt
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About Me

Ahmed is a seasoned, polyglot Full Stack Developer and DevOps Engineer with 13+ years of industry expertise. He has technical experience in building and launching of innovative products used by millions of people and guides software development teams to achieve more by facilitating persistent interaction between business people and technical people.

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.

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

  • Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.

Aurea Software
Aurea Software
Software Architect
2017 - 2019 (2 years)
Remote
  • Provide technical expertise and guidance to different companies for the migration of their systems to more modern, cloud-friendly tech stacks.

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

  • Regularly evaluate and make 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.

  • Efficiently 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 backend API to explore analyzed data on the system.

Sarmady
Sarmady
Team Lead
2012 - 2017 (5 years)
  • Successfully 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, which resulted in a 200% boost in production uptime.

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

Kngine (acquired by Samsung)
Kngine (acquired by Samsung)
Senior Software Engineer
2011 - 2012 (1 year)
  • Efficiently led a small unit in owning and building web applications to interact with the core AI engine of the company.

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

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

iSource
iSource
Senior Software Engineer
2009 - 2011 (2 years)
  • 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 life cycle.

MoveIT
MoveIT
Software Developer
2005 - 2009 (4 years)
  • Provided technical expertise and custom software development services for numerous clients on behalf of MoveIT.

  • Efficiently 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

Software Architect - Kayako
Software Architect - Kayako

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

Principal Developer - Freedom Tools
Principal Developer - Freedom Tools

FreedomTools 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, Continuous Integration Setup, Database design, Backend and Frontend development and cross-platform mobile app prototype.

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 check-outs 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

Education
Bachelor of Commerce
Banha University, Egypt
1999 - 2003 (4 years)