Ahmed Salah El-Afifi

Senior Software Engineer

Cairo, Egypt

ahmed.s.elafifi@gmail.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aelafifi

https://www.github.com/aelafifi

Senior software engineer who is interested in building high-scale apps, solving really complex problems and optimizing the exists solutions.

I love to work with big companies to solve customers' problems by designing and developing valuable solutions, with good performance, and following the standards. With a chance for me to gain knowledge and learn new stuff.

Have overall 7 years of extensive experience as a full-stack developer in both LAMP and MEAN Stack. 3 years of them as a Backend Developer, building REST API's.
Started learning programming when I was 14. Following the best practices and principles (e.g: SOLID, DRY, KISS, and YAGNI), and writing clean code.
Having a great experience with building high optimized/high scalable Database Designs with both RDBMS's and NoSQL. And having a good experience with using ORM's.
A Software Engineer having a great experience with all the stages of SDLC including design, development, testing, and deployment. And a good experience with a lot of DevOps Tools (e.g: Git, and Docker)
A Study Group Mentor at The NTL Initiative, with a great skill set of communicating, and delivering knowledge.
Have an analytical mind and strong problem-solving capabilities.
Have a professional experience in data engineering, dealing with huge amounts of data in complex structures.
Self Driven, Highly Motivated, Trying my best to be a "Pragmatic Programmer" by getting the Pragmatic Mindset, and following the Pragmatic Principles.

Proficient

Programming Languages: Python, PHP, JavaScript
Web (backend): PHP (Laravel), Node.js (Express, Socket.io)
Web (frontend/design): HTML (Twig, Pug), CSS (SASS, Bootstrap)
Web (frontend/dev): Javascript / Typescript (jQuery, Angular 2+, Vue.js)
Web Building Tools: Webpack, Babel, Gulp
DMBS: MySQL (Relational), MongoDB (NoSQL)
ORM's: Eloquent (Laravel), Sequelize (Node.js)
OS/Containers: Linux, Windows, Docker (& docker-compose)
DevOps: Git

Good Working Knowledge

PL's: C# (.NET)
Web (backend): Python (Flask)
ML: NumPy
SQL: Postgres
NoSQL: ElasticSearch
ORM's: Mongoose (MongoDB)
DevOps: Bitbucket pipelines (CI)

Basic Development

Other PL's: C++, Java, R
Message Queue: Kafka, RabbitMQ

Used stacks: Python, Node.js, Golang, C# (Entity Framework, Linq, Asp.NET), Git, Docker, Kafka, Envoy, ElasticSearch, Postregs

Worked with a distributed team from Egypt, Jordan and Sweden on delivering enterprise-scale CI projects for huge companies like Volvo, Toyota, Arcam and Ericson, which helped in product baseline management and test automation.

Our projects are built as a micro-services, using a varity of PL's, tool and technologies (which described above) with portability and deployability in mind.

Samples of projects:

Data Wrangler (stream indexing)
Test Automation Framework
Product Baseline Management System

With a team of web/mobile app software engineers, I was responsible for managing and monitoring the design/development process, managing tasks and delivery, mentoring junior software engineers, reviewing code quality, and ensuring functionality and behavior of the app.

Used stacks: PHP (custom/private frmework), REST API, MySQL, JavaScript, Linux Server

With a team of 4 developers, we've created an enterprise ERP system with more than 10 integrated modules, in addition to a RESTful API for a mobile application, achieving an efficient way to manage and monitor all hospital processes over 3 branches with ease of use taken in consideration.

In addition to management stuff, we provided a very easy way to track patient history, and give useful statistics to support medical researches.

* The above mentioned work experience is a SAMPLE of my professional work path.

Quick learner with good grasping ability.
Goal-oriented and quality-focused.
Have a great knowledge delivery skills.
Lead and work as a team in an organized way.
Great time management & self planning skills.

* I prefer to let my work tells you more..

Computer Science from Thebes Academy 2011 - 2015 (Ungraduated)