Mosab Ahmad I make (and sometimes break) cool things with technology mosab.ahmad@gmail.com Summary A passionate software engineer, supposedly a geek, a caffeine junkie, a food lover, an open source/free software believer and an entrepreneur in the make. Currently living in Cairo, Egypt. Experience Senior Software Engineer, DevOps at Yubb Software March 2013 - Present (2 years 2 months) * Develop infrastructure and tools for system monitoring, performance measurements, and fully automated deployments * Working closely with developers and other staff to solve operational issues with our services, tools and apps. * Working with the team to design and build scalable systems that support high traffic web services Founder & Lead developer at Zobad.net September 2011 - Present (3 years 8 months) Conceived the idea, responsible for designing technical strategies and deploying them, and also responsible for developing, testing, deploying and maintaining the platform features Senior Software Engineer at Inmobly January 2012 - May 2012 (5 months) Responsible for developing and maintaining server side stacks using C++, Python, MySQL, PHP, Linux and any necessary technology to serve mobile and tablet applications worldwide Technical Consultant at Bluw i Limited June 2011 - September 2011 (4 months) * PHP consultation * Software engineering process implementation * PHP/MySQL Development * Agile cocoaching Senior PHP Developer at Basharsoft April 2010 - April 2011 (1 year 1 month) * Manage, monitor and maintain the online production server for BasharJobs platform (http:// www.basharjobs.com) * Architect, design, and implement BasharJobs platform with the team. * Collaborate with marketing professionals to enhance the product interface. * Take lead role along with the CTO in applying agile practices and techniques. * Co-leading the development team along with the company's CTO. 2 recommendations available upon request Page1
Software Engineer at Arabia Inform November 2009 - April 2010 (6 months) Was responsible for migrating some projects from proprietary suites to open source software. Software Engineer at Citex Software October 2008 - November 2009 (1 year 2 months) Building a portal consisting of many websites hosted on Amazon Web Services (EC2 & S3) and serving as a frontier for a complicated printing system hosted somewhere else. 2 recommendations available upon request Linux sys admin and PHP developer at Media International January 2007 - September 2008 (1 year 9 months) * Load balancing linux web servers and implementing MySQL replication and file sync between them * Monitoring the servers for solving production problems and preventing attacks that happened * Customization and installation of a youtube-like video sharing solution. * Migrating some of our clients websites' content from the CMS they are using to another CMS (mainly Joomla or drupal) and applying necessaery changes to keep the data intact * Finding various open source tools for our internal use either project managers, developers, testers etc. * Still Maintaining current website and developing new features in www.20at.com as a project in the company I am working in * Responsible for choosing hosting plans that fit projects' needs, and managing these accounts. 3 recommendations available upon request PHP Developer at 20at.com January 2004 - December 2006 (3 years) * Developing a CMS from scratch to fit the editors' needs, and migrate from an old version to this new version. * Making a new version of the CMS to avoid some security holes, enhancing the usability of the CMS and adding more user-friendly functionalities. * Developing Speical pages (nested websites) to fit some events * Migrating from a previous CMS they used (phpws) to the newly developed CMS i made. 2 recommendations available upon request Certifications Learn to Program: The Fundamentals Faculty of Computer Science, University of Toronto License Statement of Accomplishment November 2012 Volunteer Experience Coach at Sea Scouting January 2000 - December 2003 (4 years) An active member of the Sea Scouting movement in Egypt, and a coach for scout children Page2
Projects Zlien January 2013 to Present Members:Mosab Ahmad, Antonio Safwat Zlien is a national mechanic lien and preliminary notice filing service, and also provides the LienPilot webbased lien compliance manager and deadline calculator. Wuzzuf (Formerly: Basharjobs) April 2011 to April 2011 Members:Mosab Ahmad, Ameer Sherif, Ahmed Samir, Bahaa Galal, Islam Ibrahem, Muhammad Algarhy, Amro Mohamed Was the lead developer Zobad.net September 2011 to Present Members:Mosab Ahmad, Ali Abdel Moniem Mansour An online web site where we aggregate and post daily the most popular and trending viral video on the internet WUZZUF January 2010 to Present Members:Mosab Ahmad, Ahmed ElSharkawy, Ameer Sherif, Muhammad Algarhy, Islam Ibrahem, Ahmed Samir WUZZUF is the future of job boards where advanced matching algorithms analyze jobs and Talent Profiles to produce real-time recommendations for employers and job seekers. In Wuzzuf, candidates create what we call Talent Profiles (TPs) instead of uploading their CVs. TPs are more structured and visual than CVs making them easier to read and easier to use for matching with jobs. Intelligent matching algorithms then match TPs with jobs from employers to produce job recommendations for job seekers and candidate recommendations for employers. Both job seekers and employers no longer need to search for each other we do this on their behalf to save them time and frustration. Wuzzuf has a unique business model that s different from other traditional online job boards where employers have to make their payment upfront to access a database of CVs or post a job without knowing if they will get quality candidates or not. Grid Status Now August 2014 to Present Members:Mosab Ahmad Egypt's Power Grid Load Status As A Web Service. A service parses the data in the "electric power grid load meter" provided by The Egyptian Electric Utility and Consumer Protection Regulatory Agency (EGYPTERA) and presents it in a more human friendly way. It also provides an API so other developers can build other web and mobile applications on top of it. Skills & Expertise PHP Page3
Apache MySQL Linux Drupal CakePHP Symfony Code Igniter Zend Framework Wordpress Debian Ubuntu Cloud Computing Amazon Web Services Git Mercurial Hudson Python Bash jquery CMS Web 2.0 Agile CSS JavaScript XML LAMP AJAX Web Development JSON Smarty Open Source EC2 MVC Flask (Python) Django Subversion Web Services Agile Methodologies SQLAlchemy wxpython Matplotlib WSGI Web Scraping Curl YAML Page4
Fabric Amazon Web Services (AWS) OOP Software Engineering Languages Arabic English (Native or bilingual proficiency) (Full professional proficiency) Education Cairo University Dropout, Computer Engineering, 2002-2007 Ahmed Bahgat High school High school, General Studies, 1999-2002 Interests Hacking code that helps others, FOSS and FLOSS, Swimming, Sea Scouting, Blogging, writing, Surfing the Internet, Drawing (especially 3D), Arduino, Food, Caffeine Page5
Mosab Ahmad I make (and sometimes break) cool things with technology mosab.ahmad@gmail.com 9 people have recommended Mosab "Mosab is one of the best web developers I have worked with. He has a passion for innovation and adopting new technologies especially open source technologies. He also has very good sense of ownership towards the place he works in and knows how to lead a team of developers and motivate them towards the goal of his company. In short, Mosab is both a good developer and a good team leader to hire." Ahmed Magdy Ezzeldin, MSc., IT Consultant, A1 Works, worked directly with Mosab at Basharsoft "Mosab is one of the most creative developers I have ever worked with. An open source believer who is always open for new ideas, I love how simple he can get things done." Ibrahim Abdel Fattah Mohamed, Senior Web Developer, BasharSoft, worked directly with Mosab at Basharsoft "Mosab is a very motivated software engineer who is majorly interested in Open Source software and technology. His constant output has proven his passion for writing code. Mosab can always provide help to colleagues, work under stress and provides necessary communication skills." Mohammed El Hakim, Software Engineer, Citex Software, worked with Mosab at citex software "Moseb is a great person to work with. He is an excellent player in team work group. We worked together in big project and he showed great dedication to the work even though it was a part time project besides his full time work. I would recommend Moseb without thinking twice." Ahmed Saber, Software Engineer, Get A Freelancer, worked directly with Mosab at citex software "Mosab is not only an insightful and broad-minded software engineer, but also an inspiring team player, his knowledge is vast and thorough. He is probably one of the best software engineers I've ever met in my life and one of the smartest colleagues I've ever worked with." Omar Badr, PMP, Software Development / Technology Manager, Media International - (IslamOnline.net), managed Mosab at Media International Page6
"Mosab, is one of the most talented delevlopers I've ever worked with, he is devoted to his work. He is keen to deliever his work perfectly. Really you can depened on him.." Ali Abdel Moniem Mansour, Managing Editor of 20at.com, Media International, worked directly with Mosab at media international "He is an intellectual GEEK who can inspire people by his different way of thinking." Ahmed Abdullah, HR Specialist, Media International, worked with Mosab at media international "Mosab is an very well educated, very well organized, fast-learning and extremely thorough developer with special skills and interests in PHP coding, I have worked with him and I can say he was surprising me all the time by his talented mind and the way he likes his work!" Hesham Zebida, Editor, Media International, worked directly with Mosab at 20at.com "i worked with Mr. Mosab and i recommend him as php/mysql developer at 20at.com. he was very clever to solve many problems which faced the web 20at.com" Mogahed Sharara, Supervisor of interactive zone at media international, Media International, worked with Mosab at 20at.com Contact Mosab on LinkedIn Page7