Abdelrahman Ahmed
Software Engineer at Deer
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolAbdelrahman Ahmed is a software engineer with 11 years of experience based in Cairo, specializing in back-end and DevOps engineering for cloud-native systems. He currently builds production software at Trella while running Deer, an open-source, cross-platform note-taking app he founded using Electron, Node.js, React and Redux. His open-source contributions include kubernetes-focused tooling (kwatch) that detects pod crashes and integrates with Slack, reflecting a practical focus on reliability and observability. Earlier involvement with Mozilla and a Google Summer of Code project demonstrates deep roots in open-source collaboration and protocol-level work. Abdelrahman combines startup initiative with enterprise engineering discipline, often shipping pragmatic automation and monitoring improvements that reduce operational toil.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Cairo University
Github Skills (11)
golang10
monitoring10
crash-reports10
kubernetes10
go10
slack10
k8s10
kubernetes-pods10
docker8
dockers8
cicd7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
abahmed/kwatch
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
:eyes: monitor & detect crashes in your Kubernetes(K8s) cluster instantly
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 releases, 129 reviews, 65 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Abdelrahman's commits primarily focused on enhancing the kwatch project's functionality and improving its integration with Slack. They added features to detect new pod crashes and updated the configuration files. The commits also included changes to the controller logic and utility functions to improve crash detection, along with refactoring efforts to support storage and versioning.
monitordiscordgomonitoringk8s
gogearbox/netadaptor
Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
Converts net/http handlers to gearbox handlers
Contributions:1 release, 8 reviews, 21 commits in 1 year 1 month
golanghandlershttp-handlersgearboxnet-http
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