Ahmad Alfy
Chief Technology Officer at Robusta Studio
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmad Alfy is a front-end-first technology leader and CTO at Robusta Studio with 11 years of professional experience building web applications and guiding engineering teams from Cairo. A Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, he pairs strategic leadership with hands-on UI work — notable open-source contributions include RTL and font/WOFF2 improvements to the popular slick carousel and layout, IE11 and image-optimization fixes for Facebook's Docusaurus. He progressed from freelance Joomla work to front-end developer, Head of Software Development and now CTO, and has led the Facebook Developers Circle Cairo, mentoring the local ecosystem. Unusually for a tech executive, he holds a medical degree, a background that surfaces in his methodical troubleshooting and attention to internationalization and performance.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Medicine, Bachelor's degree, Medicine at Ain Shams UniversitySuez Canal Authority Schools
Arabic, English
Stackoverflow
13,225reputation
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294answers
27questions
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Github Skills (29)
compatible10
javascript10
website-development10
css10
backward-compatibility10
compatibility10
front-end-development10
rt10
html10
highcharts10
react10
joomla9
user-interface9
underscorejs9
responsive-design9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kenwheeler/slick
Jul 2014 - Jun 2022
the last carousel you'll ever need
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 26 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Ahmad primarily contributed to the front-end of the project, making significant changes related to RTL (Right-to-Left) language support. They modified the direction of UI elements and animations to accommodate RTL layouts, impacting the user experience for languages that read from right to left. The user also updated the documentation, and fixed indentation formatting. The user added font-display to the project and added WOFF2 support.
reactsliderevercarouselneed
facebook/docusaurus
May 2018 - Jan 2019
Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 57 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ahmad primarily focused on fixing UI and layout issues within the Docusaurus documentation website. Their contributions include implementing a sticky footer, addressing navigation and font rendering problems in Internet Explorer 11, and resolving issues with the layout of content and sidebars. The user also introduced image compression using imagemin and optimized images.
javascriptreact
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