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Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Névache, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

• Planned and developed Fintech solutions using Ruby on Rails on a monolith application, with multiple service-oriented applications consuming from it using Kafka event streaming and RabbitMQ message queues.
• Designed and developed an accrual-based accounting system that helped reduce time spent by customer support team chasing down payment by 80% and massively increased financial observability.
• Modernized payment collection pages design and functionality which improved overall user experience and increased payment conversion rate by 12%.
• Spearheaded the initiative of reducing CI resource wastage and enhancing parallelization, which led to a 50% decrease in cost along with a 40% decrease in CI pipeline time on average.
• Led the effort of introducing proper documentation using Spotify Backstage, arc42 and C4 model diagramming.

Cairo, Egypt

• Led the strategic planning and delegation of development and operational tasks, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to high-quality standards.
• Orchestrated the transformation of business needs and operations of 5 different clients into production-grade software systems.
• Architected and implemented the infrastructure required to host 16 different software platforms on a shared-resources cluster using DigitalOcean and Kubernetes.
• Designed and Implemented monitoring and analytics systems using Elasticsearch + Kibana, InfluxDB + Grafana, and AppSignal, which led to more than 100% increase in the speed of detecting infrastructure and application.
• Spearheaded the initiative of implementing company-wide access control system using Keycloak, which massively reduced onboarding and offboarding overhead, while reducing security risks.

Cairo, Egypt

• Led a team consisting of 7 members in delivering 4 unique software platforms using Ruby on Rails.
• Mentored 4 junior team members into achieving significant career milestones, leading to their successful promotion for 2 of them within one year.
• Established the twelve-factor app methodology across the organization, which resulted in horizontally scalable applications that saved 40% of the infrastructure cost while delivering comparable performance.
• Overhauled the CI/CD processes in Jenkins, resulting in 15% reduction in costs and 60% reduction in the time between code merge and deployment.

California, United States

• Architected and implemented production grade infrastructure using AWS and Kubernetes using Infrastructure as Code principles (AWS CloudFormation).
• Designed and integrated a logging and monitoring system with alerts using Elasticsearch stack, InfluxDB, and Grafana, which resulted in decreased production downtime by 30% and significantly faster debugging time.
• Developed a suite of internal tools using Bash scripting with various functionalities including from context-based Kubernetes manifest interpolation, quick-connection to internal cluster resource and backups, and.
• Collaborated in the development of several features and improvements on the core backend application using NodeJS + Express.js, PostgreSQL, Neo4j and Elasticsearch, including location-based search, a messaging platform.

Cairo, Egypt

• Developed and released more than 4 software platforms for different clients using Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and Redis.
• Planned and diagrammed ERDs for the aforementioned software platforms in order to optimize data structure and flow in both the application and the database levels.
• Planned and applied unit, system and integration tests using Rspec, Sinatra and Capybara.