Ahmed A.
Senior Software Engineer with Cybersecurity Background
Bottom line: Canadian engineering quality with Egyptian living pricing! Technical profile: * 18+ years of eclectic software engineering/development work, building batch pipelines, middleware, and web platforms, * Solving difficult problems in parallelism/distribution, integrity (idempotency, transactions, fault-tolerance), architecture (modularity, composition), cybersecurity (web, network), and low-level protocol details (HTTP, OS internals), * Using multiple technologies including Python/FastAPI, Erlang/OTP/Elixir/Phoenix, many Javascript frameworks; I choose the right tool for the job, * Resourceful and self-reliant to solve incidental issues in system and network administration (e.g., devops) Technical projects: 1. Batch pipeline to process major record label digital assets (music and video): 1M+ tracks 2. DDoS testing platform: performs various attacks using 1000+ VPS's 3. Environmental science platform serving scientists and the general public on the national level Interpersonal profile: * Master communicator: eloquent, concise, and articulate * Independent and self-directed: led projects, ran my own software consultancy, and managed junior engineers * Mature and very easy to work with with an ethical commitment to quality no matter how small the job may be. P.S., no AI was used in the above write-up
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 3.3 months active (since Jul 2026)
Read daily since Oct 25, under 30 days
Billed in all: $2,679$2.7k
$2.4k in the last 6 months
Earnings, last 30 days
Tracked from Oct 25, 2026.
Skill rankings: Top 12% in Phoenix Web Framework
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