Ahmed is available for hire

Ahmed S. Said Ahmed

Verified Expert in Engineering

Software Developer

Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt

Toptal member since October 11, 2024

Expertise

Web Development CSS REST API Git Node.js Visual Studio Development AWS React.js Data Scraping MySQL PostgreSQL Docker Python Linux GitHub

Bio

I'm a software engineer with over 11 years of industry experience. I'm a certified AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Scrum professional with application development and deployment expertise. I've worked with companies of different economic sectors and sizes, ranging from startups to enterprises, and delivered high-quality products. I am almost language and tech-stack agnostic, though for the record I can tell that I am proficient in JS/TS frameworks, Python, Java, Kubernetes, Docker, & Terraform.

Portfolio

Elephant Ventures

JavaScript, React, Node.js, Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Angular, Java...

Digital Bridges

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, React Native...

An Online Freelance Agency

Angular, Node.js, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), CI/CD Pipelines, HTML, CSS, Cron

Experience

JavaScript - 13 years
REST APIs - 11 years
Node.js - 7 years
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 6 years
React - 6 years
Python - 5 years
React Native - 3 years
GraphQL - 3 years

Preferred Environment

Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Node.js, React, React Native, Flutter, Angular, Bash, TypeScript, Python 3

The most amazing...

...thing I've done was develop a healthcare insurance ecosystem (mobile app, telehealth platform, and back-office portal) that supported +100k patients in Egypt.

Work Experience

Senior Full-stack Engineer

2022 - PRESENT

Elephant Ventures

Developed data-intensive applications and data engineering pipelines.
Helped build and maintain features for the client's main platform.
Supported clients in health and wellness and financial sectors.
Used AI tools like V0, Claude, and Cursor to create software development workflows.

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Node.js, Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Angular, Java, TypeScript, Knex.js, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Apollo Server, Apollo Client, REST APIs, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), CI/CD Pipelines, React Native, Python 3, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon EC2, Bash, NoSQL, MySQL, Databricks, Spark, D3.js, HTML, CSS, AWS Lambda, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS IAM Identity Center, PyCharm, Figma to React, Cron

Lead Software Engineer

2020 - 2022

Digital Bridges

Built a mobile app for hospitals to submit prescriptions (claims) to be processed in real time and get approval from insurance companies.
Developed and launched a web portal where agents can review prescriptions (claims) and then pass it to insurance companies' APIs to be processed and pass approval back.
Architected and launched a telehealth platform for specialists to give insurance-backed consultations and automatically submit medications, labs, and scans for approval in real time.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, React Native, Terraform, Sentry, PostgreSQL, Redis, REST APIs, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), MySQL, Amazon RDS, Load Balancers, AWS IAM, AWS ELB, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Route 53, Flutter, Google Maps API, Google Maps, Database Normalization, Yup, Formik, Localization, Axios, Bootstrap, Moment.js, Day.js, React Redux, Redux-Saga, Redux Toolkit, NestJS, Bash, Microservices, Python 3, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Chart.js, RxJS, Software Design Patterns, AWS SDK, Express.js, TypeORM, Knex.js, Winston, Passport.js, Nodemailer, Stripe API, Tesseract OCR, HTML, CSS, AWS Lambda, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS IAM Identity Center, Linux, Figma to React, Cron

Senior Software Engineer

2021 - 2021

An Online Freelance Agency

Built the back end of their internal matching tool using Node.js.
Developed the front end of their internal matching tool using Angular.
Maintained the CI pipeline and monitored the deployed codebase.

Technologies: Angular, Node.js, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), CI/CD Pipelines, HTML, CSS, Cron

Senior Full-stack Engineer

2017 - 2020

Mintrics

Built and maintained our main web application video marketing analytics tool with Angular and PHP's Laravel.
Migrated our infrastructure from AWS Elastic Beanstalk to GCP App Engine instances.
Helped migrate our local environment from Vagrant to Docker Compose.

Technologies: Angular, PHP, Laravel, Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), REST APIs, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), WordPress, Elementor, CSS3, Vagrant, Docker Compose, HTML, CSS, AWS IAM Identity Center, Linux, Data Scraping

Experience

Digital Bridges

http://dbridges.net

Digital Bridges is a healthcare ecosystem that supports patients, hospitals, and insurance companies. It includes telehealth platforms, a mobile app, and a support agents portal deployed in AWS, the App Store, and the Play Store.

The back end is structured as microservices built by Nest.js and communicating together using Redis pubsub; the database engine is PostgreSQL, and its read capabilities are supported with multiple replicas. The front end is built with React, and the mobile app was built with Flutter and then redone with React Native.

Mintrics Video Analytics Platform

A web application that provides video analytics built with Angular and Laravel and deployed to GCP. I spearheaded the development of this platform and worked on some projects related to infrastructure migration and transformation.

Untap Compete

https://untapcompete.com/

A competition management platform was built with Angular and Node.js, and the website was built with WordPress. The platform enables competition organizers to create their own portal for creatives to submit their ideas in a sort of tournament that includes multiple rounds and filtration processes.

Certifications

APRIL 2023 - APRIL 2026

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Node.js, React, REST APIs, Apollo Client, Google Maps API, Google Maps, Yup, Formik, Moment.js, Day.js, React Redux, Redux-Saga, Chart.js, RxJS, Winston, Passport.js, Stripe API, D3.js, WordPress API, BuddyPress, Plaid API

Tools

Git, GitHub, Cron, Terraform, Sentry, Knex.js, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS IAM, AWS ELB, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Redux Toolkit, AWS SDK, Vagrant, Docker Compose, WPML, bbPress, PyCharm, Expo, Claude

Languages

HTML, CSS, Python, GraphQL, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Bash, Python 3, CSS3

Platforms

Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Linux, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), WordPress, Amazon EC2, Databricks, Software Design Patterns, WooCommerce, AWS Lambda, Firebase

Frameworks

React Native, Angular, Flutter, Laravel, Spark, Bootstrap, NestJS, Express.js, Next.js, Tailwind CSS

Storage

MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), NoSQL

Paradigms

Microservices

Other

Web Applications, Web Development, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS IAM Identity Center, Data Scraping, Figma to React, AI Chatbots, Apollo Server, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon RDS, Load Balancers, Amazon Route 53, Database Normalization, Localization, Axios, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), TypeORM, Nodemailer, Elementor, Tesseract OCR, WordPress Themes, Yoast SEO, Contact Form 7, WPForms, MemberPress, Component Libraries, Dashboards, OpenAI, Gemini, AI Agents, Bots, Boto3

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