
Bassem Magdi
Verified Expert in Engineering
Lead Software Engineer and Developer
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Toptal member since June 29, 2026
Bassem is a product-minded software engineer and product engineering architect who owns UX, front-end, back-end architecture, AI integrations, and business-critical delivery. With 8+ years of experience across aerospace, defense, geospatial, eCommerce, and SaaS, he designs scalable systems with clean abstractions, modern UI/UX, and a sharp focus on adoption, conversion, efficiency, and customer value. Bassem is an expert in React, JavaScript, Next.js, and Node.js.
Portfolio
Experience
- Node.js - 8 years
- TypeScript - 7 years
- React - 6 years
- Next.js - 5 years
- PostgreSQL - 5 years
- Python - 3 years
- Agentic AI Systems - 2 years
- NestJS - 2 years
Preferred Environment
React, IntelliJ IDEA, MacOS, Web Development, Next.js, NestJS
The most amazing...
...platform I've architected is an eCommerce system that reached 1+ million in MRR within 14 months.
Work Experience
Web SDK Lead
Storyteller
- Owned the technical and product direction of Storyteller’s JavaScript Web SDK, an enterprise platform embedded in digital experiences serving more than 15 billion customer visits each year.
- Reduced the main SDK bundle by 67.3%, Story Page payloads by 84.1%, and critical modules by about 88% during a major platform transformation completed in the first month.
- Re-architected feature delivery around a modular, route-based platform while preserving the public API for enterprise customers.
- Set the long-term roadmap with engineering and product leaders, prioritizing customer value, platform risk, developer experience, and commercial impact.
- Guided complex integrations and strategic launches for the NBA, NFL, FIFA, Formula 1, UEFA, FC Barcelona, Sky Sports, Audi Revolut F1 Team, Disney+, and Hulu.
- Led delivery from ambiguous business needs through architecture, implementation, browser QA, and enterprise release across complex customer environments.
- Improved APIs, integration flows, performance, accessibility, media experiences, and developer-facing quality through hands-on engineering and product judgment.
- Resolved high-impact production issues across browsers, APIs, rendering, playback, and customer environments, strengthening enterprise platform trust.
Lead Software Engineer
Lyrasense (LYRASENSE GmbH)
- Architected a React, TypeScript, and WebGL data science notebook UI with distributed Zustand state, enabling real-time geospatial visualization, collaborative editing, block-level code updates, virtualization, lazy loading, and WebGL context reuse.
- Architected most of a cloud-native, microservices-based Earth observation platform on GCP from scratch, including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), a service mesh, Terraform infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines with Cloud Build and GitHub Actions.
- Designed multi-tenant geospatial data pipelines ingesting and processing satellite imagery, including Sentinel, Landsat, and commercial SAR datasets, leveraging Google Earth Engine, GDAL, and Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) workflows.
- Architected an autonomous AI notebook platform using Python, FastAPI, the Agno framework, and Amazon Bedrock.
- Implemented vector tile serving and raster mosaicking at scale.
- Built scalable RAG knowledge bases indexing the full Google Earth Engine (GEE) catalog and community datasets to power terrain classification, change detection, and semantic satellite analysis without manual coding from end users.
- Designed and implemented a sandboxed code execution service to safely run agent-generated geospatial computations.
- Integrated GCP Batch for scheduled, asynchronous agent automations at scale with resource quotas and job-level isolation.
- Deployed GCP-native load balancing using Cloud Load Balancing and NEGs across regional GKE clusters, implementing circuit breakers, retry policies, and health check-driven autoscaling with HPA/VPA to maintain SLA under bursty workloads.
- Leveraged Docker and Kubernetes namespaces for per-tenant workload isolation and managed ephemeral execution environments using GCP Cloud Run and Artifact Registry for reproducible geospatial runtimes.
Product Engineering Lead
Aiõn Technologies
- Designed and led the delivery of a production AI voice agent for Beko Egypt using LangGraph and LiveKit, supporting low-latency Arabic and English calls, tool use, human handoff, and 24/7 operations.
- Built Fix It Right, an industrial after-sales platform linking home appliance OEMs, authorized service centers, technicians, and customers across ticketing, warranties, SLAs, parts, billing, and dispatch.
- Architected multichannel AI service agents across IVR/SIP voice, WhatsApp, and web chat, with STT, LLM orchestration, RAG, TTS, CRM ticketing, escalation, retries, and observability.
- Developed an AI-powered analytics layer that generates real-time reports, data visualizations, and live dashboards from natural language queries.
- Shipped a React Native (Expo) iOS and Android app enabling customers to register devices, log service requests, track technician ETA in real time, manage warranties, and access spare parts history.
- Engineered a Next.js admin portal with role-based access for OEM admins, ASC managers, and Aion ops, featuring ticket management, technician performance, SLA dashboards, financial reconciliation, inventory management, and real-time WebSocket updates.
- Designed multi-warehouse spare parts management with automated reorder triggers, parts-to-ticket matching, supplier integrations, and cost tracking.
- Implemented end-to-end financial flows covering service billing, parts invoicing, ASC commission structures, payment gateway integrations, and downstream reconciliation with accurate usage metering for SaaS and consumption pricing models.
- Architected predictive maintenance models and demand forecasting pipelines estimating spare parts consumption, technician capacity requirements, and SLA breach risk.
- Deployed continuous voice capture in mobile applications, building server-side pipelines for speech-to-text via Whisper and Google Speech-to-Text, semantic embedding generation, and LLM-based intent routing to enable real-time voice interactions.
Founder and Tech Lead
CEXTRA eCommerce
- Founded and scaled an eCommerce brand to 1+ million EGP per month in revenue within 14 months while owning product engineering, analytics, pricing, paid media, and financial management.
- Translated growth data into product changes across landing pages, checkout bundles, creative testing, and remarketing funnels, connecting engineering work directly to CAC and conversion metrics.
- Built high-performance Next.js SSR storefront with edge caching, CDN delivery, analytics, and a greater than 95 Lighthouse performance score for fast mobile shopping experiences.
- Designed and executed 30+ structured A/B experiments using feature flags, holdout groups, and statistical significance thresholds, with more than 20 winning tests reducing cost per purchase by 70%.
- Architected an internal operating system for inventory shipping logistics, customer support, order management, and real-time marketing performance analytics.
Product Manager and Lead Full-stack Engineer
NeuraMaths (Neura-Learn)
- Drove zero-to-one platform development from concept to production, covering architecture, product roadmap, engineering execution, stakeholder management, and release delivery.
- Owned product discovery, roadmap trade-offs, and A/B testing for engagement and retention flows while balancing learning outcomes, reliability, and business constraints.
- Integrated LLM-powered adaptive content embeddings and retrieval-augmented learning loops to personalize student practice and surface real-time performance insights.
- Engineered PostgreSQL sharding, Redis caching, and AWS deployment patterns to support concurrent load while maintaining stable application performance.
- Implemented Grafana observability custom dashboards, real-time alerting, SLI/SLO tracking, CI/CD, and A/B tests across engagement and retention flows.
Full-stack Developer
Techno & Chill
- Built scalable REST APIs for event ticketing reward systems and user authentication, supporting high concurrent load.
- Integrated region-specific payment processors for international market localization and implemented secure transaction flows and fraud mitigation.
- Collaborated with the iOS team on cross-platform integration, maintaining a high-availability back end with proactive performance monitoring.
Software Engineering Operations (EngOps) Executive
Mercado Business Solutions
- Founded and scaled a 15-person engineering team, establishing hiring pipelines, code review culture, and technical standards across projects.
- Delivered full-stack products across education, manufacturing, telecom, and medical verticals, managing everything from requirements through deployment.
- Built and shipped cross-platform solutions spanning iOS (Swift/SwiftUI), React and Next.js web applications, WebRTC-powered real-time communication, Vertex AI integrations, payment gateway implementations, and ERP customizations with Odoo.
Software Developer Digital Transformation
REMCO Real Estate
- Deployed a customized ERP system that unified operations across sales, finance, and project management as part of the company-wide digital transformation.
- Led the redesign of the company's digital presence, including its website, social media, and brand identity, while managing an internal software team to deliver continuous product and process improvements.
- Modernized operations with custom-built software designed to match the needs of the company.
Software Developer
Property Egypt
- Built lead generation real estate platforms responsible for 500+ million EGP in annual brokerage sales and 400+ million EGP for developer clients.
- Developed and operated a CRM system, targeted ad campaigns, and conversion-optimized landing pages.
- Built custom apps and systems to handle inner operations and support the sales funnel.
Experience
Beko AI Voice Agent | Aiõn Technologies
Lyrasense Front End | Agentic Geospatial Intelligence
https://lyrasense.comUnified Government Portals Platform Architecture | Egypt
https://mcit.gov.egLyrasense AI Agent | Agentic Geospatial Intelligence
https://lyrasense.comFix It Right Platform
Awni | AI Customer Service Agent
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Business Technology
Cape Breton University | Canadian International College in Cairo CIC - Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Certifications
Distributed System Design
Udemy
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, Stripe API, WebGL, Stripe, WebRTC, Playwright, REST APIs, Three.js, Google Calendar API, FFmpeg, Shopify API, WhatsApp API
Tools
Shadcn UI, WebStorm, Codex, AI SDK, Claude Code, Shadcn, Claude, GitHub, Terraform, Git, Vitest, Odoo, Expo, Grafana, Amazon CloudFront CDN, NGINX, IntelliJ IDEA, Whisper, GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, Loki, Webpack
Languages
TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, Swift, SQL, CSS, HTML, GraphQL
Frameworks
Next.js, Material UI, NestJS, Tailwind CSS, React Native, SwiftUI, Express.js, Jest, LangGraph
Paradigms
REST, Microservices, Role-based Access Control (RBAC), Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agile Product Management, Database Design, DevOps, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Business Intelligence (BI), CQRS, Event Sourcing
Platforms
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Cloud Run, Vercel, Firebase, MacOS, LiveKit, Kubernetes, Docker, Vertex AI, iOS, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Clerk, Mapbox, Harbor
Storage
Cloud Firestore, Databases, PostgreSQL, Redis, Amazon DynamoDB, Google Cloud, Database Structure, Database Management, PostGIS, MongoDB
Other
Zustand, Supabase, AI Agents, ReAct Agents, RAG Systems, RAG Pipelines, AI Voice Agents, Harness Engineering, Web Development, RTL, Architecture, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Full-stack, Full-stack Development, AI Product Strategy, Agentic RAG Systems, Software Architecture, Front-end Development, AI Architecture, Meta Ads, Data Modeling, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Design Systems, eCommerce, Agentic AI Systems, Front-end, OpenAI, Solution Architecture, Prompt Engineering, Software Engineering, Server-side Rendering (SSR), FastAPI, GitHub Actions, Cloud Services, Conversion Rate, Speech-to-Text (STT), Geospatial Data, Geospatial Analytics, Agno, Mastra, System Design, OpenAI APIs, Economics, Vite, API Design, Anthropic, Large Language Models (LLMs), API Integration, CI/CD Pipelines, Edge Functions, Webhooks, Back-end Development, Database Schema Design, Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG), Payments, Serverless, LLM Integration, APIs, RESTful Web Services, Admin Panels, Payment Processing, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Containerization, Observability, Back-end, Performance Optimization, Technical Leadership, Code Review, Algorithms, AI Agent Orchestration, Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, Technical Architecture, System Architecture, SaaS, User Interface (UI), Scalable Architecture, Agentic AI, OAuth, Multi-tenant Architecture, User Experience (UX), Multi-agent Systems, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), LangChain, Code Auditing, CRM, Multi-agent Orchestration, Workflows, Customer Support, DNS, Client Communication, Team Leadership, Team Management, Progressive Web Applications (PWAs), Lovable, Cloud Storage, Authentication, Gemini, Cloudflare, Agentic Coding, Education Technology (Edtech), Distributed Systems, Billing, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), WhatsApp Business API, GeoTIFF, Business Logic, UX Analysis, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Lazy Loading, GeoJSON, ElevenLabs Solutions, Text-to-Speech (TTS), Vector Embeddings, CMS, Single Sign-on (SSO), Prometheus, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Digital Economy, Business & Digital Transformation, Distributed Cloud, System Architecture Design
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