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Islam Taha Mohamed, Full-stack Developer in Cairo, Egypt
Islam Taha Mohamed

Full-stack Developer in Cairo, Egypt

Member since April 23, 2019
Islam is a full-stack developer who has deployed and optimized large and small scale applications using many technologies. He created and maintained several applications from small to large scale (enterprise) and is experienced with building applications using REST APIs. Islam's expertise is with Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, React, and Elixir.
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Portfolio

  • Accredible
    Amazon Web Services (AWS), Team Mentoring, Communication, Architecture...
  • Spin (Tier Mobility) - Main
    Ruby on Rails (RoR), SQL, GraphQL, REST APIs, NoSQL, Stripe API, Payment APIs...
  • Accredible
    Ruby on Rails (RoR), AngularJS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Citus...

Experience

Location

Cairo, Egypt

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Tmux, Vim Text Editor, Linux, MacOS

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on is a real-time feedback on live websites, using Elixir reverse proxy to bypass browser security and embedded Vanilla JS script.

Employment

  • Technical Team lead

    2022 - PRESENT
    Accredible
    • Set challenging but achievable team targets to match business metrics and performance standards and manage individual and team performance.
    • Adopted the Agile methodology to evaluate and continuously enhance the team's performance based on the weekly/monthly operating reports.
    • Analyzed support metrics and worked with product and engineering teams to address critical issues and customer/partner requirements and to continuously enhance the product.
    • Managed the hiring, development, and retention of technical support engineers and enhanced their technical, communication, and business skills to deliver quality service to partners and customers.
    Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Team Mentoring, Communication, Architecture, Technical Leadership, Team Leadership, Remote Team Leadership, Node.js, Metaprogramming, APIs

  • Ruby on Rails Back-end Engineer

    2022 - 2022
    Spin (Tier Mobility) - Main
    • Worked on various bugs and features, enhancing the overall experience/performance of the spin app, which led to an increase in the user base and scooter success rentals.
    • Tracked and fixed bugs using Jira as a reporting tool.
    • Delivered quality software through comprehensive code reviews and automated testing.
    Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR), SQL, GraphQL, REST APIs, NoSQL, Stripe API, Payment APIs, Ruby, Metaprogramming

  • Senior Full-stack Developer

    2020 - 2022
    Accredible
    • Redesigned an analytics service into multiple Ruby lambda functions while moving storage into Hyperscale (Citus) using AWS EC2 instances. Provisioned and automated using Terraform and Ansible.
    • Optimized slow endpoints and queries to more than three times faster response times.
    • Provided mentorship to both senior newcomers and junior developers.
    • Contributed to every system area, like the back end, front end, DevOps, and several microservices.
    Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR), AngularJS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Citus, PostgreSQL, Git, Node.js, Terraform, Ansible, Architecture, System Design, APIs

  • Expert Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL Developer for a Gaming Platform

    2021 - 2021
    Corsair Gaming - Main
    • Fixed existing bugs that caused serious issues for the user experience overall.
    • Added new features that helped speed up reserving a Sensei slot for a current gamer while maintaining the best performance we could have.
    • Worked on adding new features and fixing bugs for both the front and back end.
    Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR), PostgreSQL, AngularJS, HTML, Sass, Scrum

  • Senior Full-stack Developer

    2019 - 2020
    TaskRabbit
    • Worked on upgrading a very large legacy codebase from Rails 4 to Rails 5.
    • Worked on fixing serious security issues on both the back end and front end.
    • Contributed to various features across the front and back end.
    • Worked on upgrading Ruby version to 2.5.x almost without any issues.
    Technologies: Elasticsearch, Docker, Redis, MySQL, Capistrano, React, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby

  • Technical Team Lead

    2019 - 2019
    Pass|APP
    • Helped the company enhance the workflow process by utilizing Agile techniques.
    • Mentored more than five junior- to senior-level developers.
    • Fixed a lot of serious bugs and security vulnerabilities that were used as threats from hackers in the country.
    • Worked on the firmware (Node.js), where I implemented new features and fixed many bugs that caused severe downtime for the already live clients.
    Technologies: React, PostgreSQL, jQuery, Node.js, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Team Leadership, Communication, Agile, Leadership, Technical Leadership

  • Senior Full-stack Developer

    2017 - 2019
    VeryCreatives
    • Developed and maintained PageInbox, an embeddable chat box-like intercom, the admin panel, and the back-end APIs.
    • Worked on Talkcircle, a therapy sessions-based service where I added features, fixed bugs, and deployed the project.
    • Helped the company build the OTP Hungarian bank events system.
    • Fixed, maintained, and created a lot of serious features/bugs in Reachbird.io, a large and heavy social media platform that makes communication between advertisers and influencers easier.
    • Built a static website for a German agency using Hugo.
    Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), MySQL, ECS, Amazon EC2, Docker, Capistrano, React, Phoenix, Elixir, Ruby on Rails (RoR)

  • Senior Full-stack Developer

    2017 - 2019
    Diatomz
    • Maintained and developed all areas of the projects, such as back end, front end, mobile, and DevOps.
    • Mentored junior- to mid-level developers and helped them achieve the best while maintaining quality and best practices.
    • Implemented the in-app real-time chat between nurseries and parents and a real-time notification system.
    Technologies: Google Cloud, Capistrano, AngularJS, Ionic, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Angular, TypeScript, Leadership, Team Leadership, Remote Team Leadership, Communication, Agile

  • Full-stack Developer

    2015 - 2017
    Appenza Studio
    • Helped the company build an LMS to improve the learning process.
    • Added new features, fixed bugs, and enhanced a real-time web system.
    • Developed, designed, deployed, and maintained 14 distributed microservices with five databases and services, along with writing unit/E2E test cases.
    Technologies: MongoDB, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Neo4j, Java, Capistrano, AngularJS, Ionic, Ruby on Rails (RoR)

  • Senior Full-stack Developer

    2016 - 2016
    Marketing OverIP
    • Worked on a flight agency web application, starting from the back end, front end, and ending with the deployment process.
    • Fixed old bugs that existed on the platform and were causing a drop in the user base.
    • Added a third-party integration for flight tickets reservation.
    Technologies: MySQL, AngularJS, Hibernate, Spring, Java

Experience

  • Bardy

    Real-time feedback collaboration. This is my project, where I worked on both the back end and front end. The back end consisted of the API part and a reverse proxy in Elixir and Phoenix, enabling us to open other websites in an IFrame embedded inside our front end. The front end consisted of three different areas: the customer-facing part in React, embeddable Vanilla JS to be embedded inside proxied websites, and a Chrome extension to allow us open more complex websites inside iframes.

  • AWS JavaScript SDK
    https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js/pull/857

    Contributed to the AWS JavaScript SDK, where I fixed uploading to the S3 progress bar identifier for multiple files simultaneously. When you tried to upload multiple files at once using AWS SDK, it was not working before because there were no keys (IDs) for each file, causing a problem, and only one file could be uploaded.

    This PR was a suggested fix by adding a key for each file, making it handier for FE developers to track the upload of each file.

  • Tapdeal

    Worked on both the back-end and front-end layers of the project, where we adapted the microservices architecture in the back-end design of the project. We also developed, designed, deployed, and maintained 14 distributed microservices with five databases and services and wrote test cases.

  • Reachbird
    https://reachbird.io

    One of the large codebase projects on which I worked. I fixed, maintained, and created some features in the application on both the front and back end. I also wrote over 40% of the test cases inside the app.

  • Peekaboo Family

    Nursery management and real-time communication application to manage kids' status, photos, issues, and daily life at the nursery with parents.

    I contributed to mentoring mid-level developers, reviewing pull requests, and building the codebase in the mobile, back end, and front end.

Skills

  • Languages

    SQL, Ruby, JavaScript, Elixir, HTML, CSS, Haml, Python, Java, Emacs Lisp, GraphQL, TypeScript, Sass

  • Frameworks

    Ruby on Rails (RoR), Redux, AngularJS, Ionic, Phoenix, Bootstrap, Spring, Hibernate, Vanilla JS, Next.js, Angular

  • Libraries/APIs

    React, REST APIs, jQuery, Node.js, Stripe, Stripe API

  • Tools

    Vim Text Editor, Emacs, Tmux, Git, NPM, rbenv, AWS SDK, Citus, Capistrano, Terraform, Ansible

  • Paradigms

    Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Design Patterns, Object-oriented Design (OOD), Agile, Microservices, Scrum, Metaprogramming

  • Platforms

    Linux, MacOS, Amazon EC2, Android, iOS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Docker

  • Storage

    MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Neo4j, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Google Cloud, NoSQL, JSON, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, SQLite

  • Other

    Cordova, Team Leadership, ECS, Chrome Extensions, Team Mentoring, Communication, Payment APIs, Architecture, Technical Leadership, Remote Team Leadership, Leadership, ACM Problem Solving, Complex Problem Solving, Web Scraping, API Gateways, Registries, Open Source, Software Engineering, System Design, APIs

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
    2011 - 2017
    Benha University - Cairo, Egypt

Certifications

  • Honorable Mention in the ACM ICPC Arab Regional Contest 2015
    SEPTEMBER 2015 - PRESENT
    ACM
  • Honorable Mention in the ACM ICPC Egyptian National Contest 2015
    JANUARY 2015 - PRESENT
    ACM
  • Honorable Mention in the ACM ICPC Arab Regional Contest 2014
    SEPTEMBER 2014 - PRESENT
    ACM
  • Honorable Mention in the ACM ICPC Egyptian National Contest 2014
    JANUARY 2014 - PRESENT
    ACM

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