Multiverse

• Enhanced the competency service, expanding its ability to accommodate more learning materials by
integrating new Django applications and improving data structures.
• Developed an event tooling service that standardized RabbitMQ event scripting across the company,
significantly improving maintainability and reducing complexity.
• Led the development of a versioning system for learning units, enabling the platform to scale from serving
UK levy programs to supporting global enterprise apprenticeships. This improved learning designers’
experience significantly, as well.
• Optimized backend architecture using Python/Django while building scalable frontend interfaces with React
(TypeScript) and GraphQL.
• Collaborated with the Learning Content Team to improve the content creation experience, increasing content
delivery efficiency significantly.

Senior Software Engineer

Monzo Bank

• Engineered and maintained Monzo’s ledger, the bank’s core system of record, ensuring zero-downtime
transactional integrity and high availability.
• Led a caching project to optimize balance retrieval speed, reducing latency significantly and cutting AWS
Keyspaces billing by 70
• Conducted a zero-downtime reindexing of the ledger’s database, improving data retrieval efficiency and
performance.
• Designed and built an end-to-end distributed system to aggregate fee data from all banking products and
store it in a backend warehouse.
• Developed a system to collect tax information for US users, leveraging SQL queries for accurate data
extraction.
• Improved SQL reconciliation models for system validation, ensuring transaction consistency across services.
• Mentored an engineer while working on ledger caching project.
• Blogged about Monzo’s balance calculation and caching improvements: How We Calculate Balances,
Speeding Up Our Balance Read Time.

Software Engineer

Bloomberg

• Developed middleware API pub/sub tools for internal and external engineering usage.
• Refactored the authentication service, the entry point to the pub/sub middleware, making it more scalable,
robust, and maintainable.
• Built high-performance search infrastructure for Bloomberg Terminal’s NEWS functions using Apache Solr,
handling millions of requests per day.
• Wrote comprehensive library-wide integration and end-to-end tests using Docker containerization to ensure
system stability.

Amazon

Worked on developing a proactive tool for reporting statistical API usage. 
This tool is for internal EC2 customers.

Software Engineering Intern

Udacity Course

A program to learn android development, sponsored by Google and Udacity for Egyptian Students. 
At the end of the program we'll be able to make android apps. Also there is a final project with two stages to be done by the end of the program.
For more details, please visit:
https://www.mobileapplaunchpad.com.eg/

Mobile application Launchpad (MAL) program

Eventum IT Solutions

A web training included ruby on rails, Java EE, and (Java script/Ajax)

Web development training

Labs EgyptScholars (The Basics)

Intensive training on the basics and essentials of scientific research.
In this lab we learned how to write papers, technical writing skills, and how to make a research on a scientific topic. Moreover we learned the essentials of making a full paper with the full ethics required for such thing.
There were assignments and homework to be done every week, reports and some times abstract papers.

At the end of the Basics lab I got Excellence with degree 95/100.

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