About

I’m Ahmed, a senior full-stack engineer and technical lead based in Porto. I build dependable back ends and crisp, accessible interfaces. My focus is developer experience, performance, and shipping real value.

Lately I’ve led teams delivering AI features like streaming chat with retrieval and memory, and I previously designed high-throughput data pipelines and dashboards. My day-to-day toolbox: React and Next.js with TypeScript, Node and Nest on the server, Postgres or Timescale with Redis, plus Elasticsearch for fast search and Kafka for messaging. I run on Docker and AWS, use Kubernetes on EKS, automate infra with Pulumi, and ship via GitOps with FluxCD.

I also have on-chain experience across Ethereum, Polygon, Aptos, and Tari — primarily with ethers.js and viem. I have also worked professionally with Rust, C++, Python and Ruby. I prefer small PRs, trunk-based development, strong tests, and clear SLOs. I work globally through my Portuguese LLC with solid overlap for EU and US teams.

Experience

  1. Software Engineering Manager · Refound

    Remote

    February 2025 — May 2025

    Lead architect and team lead on an agentic leadership coaching platform. Multi-user conversations, 5k active users. Lead a team of 5 engineers. Introduced a robust CI/CD pipeline and automated testing.

    Next.jsTypeScriptNode.jsPythonQuartNestJSAWSPlaywrightlanggraphvitestDockerKubernetes

  2. Technical Lead · Tari Labs

    Full Stack Developer & Software Architect

    May 2022 — February 2025

    Lead architect and team lead on cross chain web3 data aggregation and analysis platform along with providing developer tooling and infrastructure for the rest of the company. We were proud to boast a 97% code coverage rate while scaling to millions of requests and events per hour. The system is designed as an event driven system analysing data in realtime across multiple chains. With subsecond response times, we were able to provide realtime insights to users and developers.

    ReactNode.jsPostgreSQLKubernetesAWSElasticSearchRedisNest.jsBlockchainTimescaledbDocker

  3. Senior Developer · QMedic

    Remote

    December 2018 — July 2022

    QMedic designs its own wearable medical devices, I worked as a full stack developer building internal telemetry and analytics infrastructure for the company. Collecting analytics from IoT devices and visualizing it for stakeholders.

    Google App ScriptsTypescriptNode.js

  4. Senior Full Stack Developer · Dreidev

    Remote

    January 2017 — November 2018

    Full stack developer for a software house. Continuously delivered webapps with a focus on usability, seamless and intuitive UX. First fully remote role, allowed me to attain the experience and skills to self manage and continuously deliver value in a remote workplace.

    Node.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLAWSDjangoRuby on RailsAngularjsReact

  5. Software Engineer · Paymob

    July 2016 — December 2016

    Gained experience working in the fintech industry gained ability to understand and translate regulatory requirements to project specifications. Worked on highly scalable backends for mobile wallets.

    PythonFlaskDjango

  6. Software Engineer · Eventtus

    September 2015 — January 2016

    Modernized an aging codebase from PHP to Ruby on Rails. Continuous delivery and partial rollout

    PHPRuby on RailsLaravelRuby
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Projects

Askier

Application for creating ASCII art from images, videos and live camera feeds. GPU accelerated ASCII art generation using OpenCL.

C++image processingopencvQtOpenCLTBB

Midas Algo Trader

Algorithmic trader using IBKR API for momentum exploit. Trades futures and high volatility stocks

C++financialstatisticsconcurrent

SPDX Parser

Python parser libraries for the SPDX format. Done as part of google summer of code 2014

Python

Proteus

Speech recognition library generator based on pocketsphinx for multiple

C++

Responder

Auto deployment from github web hooks. Created before things like fluxCD were widely available.

RubySinatra

SIFT

SIFT feature detector and descriptor.

C++computer visionimage processing

Ngmedia

Angular directive to remove elements based on media query match

JavascriptAngularjs

Rootkit

Rootkit for linux kernel 3.x

C++kernellinux

Unification

FOPL unification and CNF conversion using python

PythonLogic

Evaluator

Java student assignment submission, evaluator and tracker for the German University in Cairo

CoffeeScriptJavascriptRubyRuby on Rails

Certifications

  • Google Project Management Certification

    Certificate

    Comprehensive specialization for project management and how it’s done at google. Not only qualifies me to work as a project manager but helps make me a much better technical lead.

  • Postgresql for everyone certification

    Certificate

    Postgresql techniques and inner workings. Most of the time just using the ORM for everything doesn’t cut it.

  • AWS Fundamentals Certification

    Certificate

Writing

The Value of FriendshipOn EmpathyDRF nested params and multipartWeb ServicesEvaluator.inIssue trackingGeneric Rails Controllers