Ahmed Effat
Cairo,Egypt
Summary
Results-driven Engineering Manager with a proven record of delivering large-scale production systems from conception to launch. Skilled in building and mentoring high-performing engineering teams, and consistently driving business impact through strategic project leadership and process optimization.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Manager
Payrails GmbH
Cairo
08.2023 - Current
- Established and led the Integrations team, delivering Pay-in, 3DS, Network Token, and Fraud integrations in production.
- Guided the development of payment service features to support global and local payment provider integrations
- Took ownership of cross-functional initiatives with engineering, product, and business teams to drive collaboration and project success
- Implemented code review, testing standards, and stand-up processes to enhance efficiency and quality of work
- Enhanced merchant onboarding and provider discovery workflows for operational efficiency.
- Led software engineering hiring initiatives, enhancing the efficiency of recruitment.
- Go, Temporal, SQL, Grafana, GitHub, Docker
Senior Software Engineer
Careem, Uber Inc.
Cairo
04.2023 - 08.2023
- Leading initiatives to build and scale Careem Food Order Experience across the MENA region
- Java, Golang, Laravel, Docker, AWS
- Mentored other engineers on quality, system design and troubleshooting
Senior Software Engineer
Jumia
Cairo
08.2021 - 03.2023
- Technical leadership for cross-domain projects, coordinated technical tasks across multiple teams to deliver cross-functional projects across Jumia marketplace
- Provided mentorship and guidance to other team members on technical challenges
- Led a project to enable automatic cash reconciliation for Jumia riders and 3PLs, implemented the integration between Jumia's finance systems and JumiaPay payment gateway
- Designed and developed Global Product Management API to enable international sellers to manage inventory across Africa
- Developed features in a microservices environment using REST endpoints and Kafka events
- Strong automated testing culture where every change is covered by both unit and integration tests
- Java, SpringBoot, Kafka, Postgresql, JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, Gradle
Software Development Engineer
Amazon
Victoria
07.2020 - 07.2021
- Full-stack development using Java, AWS, TypeScript, React, SQL
- Designed and built scalable, reliable and performant services to solve some of the most challenging and unique problems in the ecommerce industry
- Took full ownership of the Software Development Lifecycle for the features I delivered, including requirements gathering, designing, coding, testing and deployment
- DevOps mindset, with a strong interest in operational excellence
- Delivered automated monitoring and alerting mechanisms for the features I developed and deployed in production
- Built Cloud infrastructure to run services with huge attention to fault-tolerance and resilience
- Architected a backend application in AWS using native cloud infrastructure
Software Engineer
MDA Systems
Richmond
05.2019 - 07.2020
- Server-side development to automate services, significantly reducing costly manual data processing
- Full-stack development using Java, SpringBoot, Kafka, Hibernate, SQL, TypeScript and AngularJs
- Implemented features in a large scale, event-driven, microservices architecture
- Fixed production defects, introduced enhancements to address the needs of multiple stakeholders and improve system's performance
- Unit testing using Junit and Mockito to verify correctness of individual components against design specifications
Software Engineer
Magnitude Software
Vancouver
05.2018 - 12.2018
- Developed features on ODBC (C++) and JDBC (Java) drivers, enabling customers to access and modify databases efficiently at big data scale
- Added support for DML operations, DDL operations and Transactions on an ODBC driver that manages a SQLite database
- Implemented features on a JDBC driver which allowed customers to read and write multidimensional data from/to databases
- Wrote tests to verify products prior to releasing them to customers
Software Engineer
ARRIS Group
09.2015 - 09.2016
- Analyzed and interpreted design specifications to implement software that meets customer requirements
- Developed Windows applications in C/C++ to achieve efficient test automation during design iterations, significantly reducing the need for time consuming manual testing
- Designed and wrote scripts in VBScript and Shell to control devices and equipment as per test plans
- Identified and investigated technical problems to fix reported bugs
- Developed embedded software to evaluate RF performance of set-top boxes and verify hardware
- Integrated third party software by writing well-structured and documented APIs
Education
Master of Computer Engineering -
University of British Columbia
Canada05.2019
Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering - First Class Honors
University of Sheffield
UK06.2017
Skills
- Leadership
- Code review
- Software architecture
- Microservices design
- API development
- Continuous integration
- Payment solutions
- AWS
- Docker
- Technical mentoring
- Java
- Go
Timeline
Engineering Manager
Payrails GmbH
08.2023 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Careem, Uber Inc.
04.2023 - 08.2023
Senior Software Engineer
Jumia
08.2021 - 03.2023
Software Development Engineer
Amazon
07.2020 - 07.2021
Software Engineer
MDA Systems
05.2019 - 07.2020
Software Engineer
Magnitude Software
05.2018 - 12.2018
Software Engineer
ARRIS Group
09.2015 - 09.2016
Master of Computer Engineering -
University of British Columbia
Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering - First Class Honors
University of Sheffield
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