Abdelrahman Abdelrahman
Software Development Engineer 1 at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAbdelrahman Abdelrahman is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently contributing to AWS as a Software Development Engineer focused on infrastructure tooling like the AWS Cloud Development Kit. He is a pragmatic full-stack contributor with notable open-source work on the Cutter reverse engineering platform—adding UI widgets and plugin integrations—and backend and test automation improvements to the widely used borgbackup project. His background spans building performant web tooling (React/TypeScript/Node) and shrinking CI/build times with Bazel, as well as applied ML work developing high-accuracy regression models for maritime safety on AWS SageMaker. Based in Berlin, he blends systems-level thinking with practical UX improvements and a track record of shipping measurable reliability and performance gains. Colleagues describe him as detail-oriented and hands-on, able to navigate C++/Qt, Python, and cloud-native stacks. He often pairs low-level reverse-engineering insights with cloud-scale engineering to solve tricky production problems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer and Communication Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer and Communication Engineering at Alexandria UniversityInternational Academy of KuwaitMSc Computer Science (Co-op), MSc Computer Science (Co-op) at Memorial University, Newfoundland and LabradorHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport
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Github Skills (25)
debugging10
debug10
c-language10
python10
testing10
backup10
front-end-development10
qt-framework10
reverse-engineering10
cprogramming-language10
cut9
slicer9
cookiecutter9
model-view-controller9
encryption9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
borgbackup/borg
Jun 2016 - Jan 2018
Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:39 commits, 18 PRs, 84 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Abdelrahman primarily contributed to enhancing the borgbackup/borg project by implementing features related to listing repository archives and improving the extract process. They introduced new functionalities, such as applying formats when listing archives and adding tests for listing repository archives. The user also focused on improving the extract progress display and added progress messages for various cache operations. These changes demonstrate a focus on usability and reliability of the backup solution.
pythondedupecompressionsshdeduplication
rizinorg/cutter
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Free and Open Source Reverse Engineering Platform powered by rizin
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 17 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Abdelrahman contributed to the Cutter reverse engineering platform by adding a virtual tables panel, which involved implementing a new widget to display and manage virtual tables. This required modifications to the source code, including the creation of a model, proxy model, and the widget itself using Qt framework. Additionally, the user added RBin, RIO, RCore, and RAsm plugin information to the 'About' window and improved the 'About' plugins window UI with tabs, as well as adding the asm.size option in preferences.
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