Abdulhaq Emhemmed
Libya
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Top SchoolAbdulhaq Emhemmed is a software engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in full-stack web and mobile development, currently focused on mobile engineering. He combines strong Linux and deployment skills with a first-class BE in Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics from the University of Glasgow, bringing engineering rigor to software problems. Abdulhaq has worked across startups and global teams—including SoundCloud and a North African talent collective—building production mobile apps and backend services. He contributes to notable open-source projects, improving DTO handling and OpenAPI generation in the Litestar ASGI framework and strengthening test automation in Django REST Framework JSON:API. Comfortable both shipping user-facing iOS features and hardening backend APIs, he blends practical QA discipline with hands-on development. Based in Libya, he often bridges distributed teams and local talent pipelines while maintaining a strong focus on reliability and developer ergonomics.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, 1st class with honours, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, 1st class with honours at University of Glasgow
Arabic, engllish, Italian
Github Skills (16)
automated-tests10
django-rest10
api10
sqlalchemy10
pytest10
litestar10
django-rest-framework10
python10
django10
rest-framework10
openapi9
json-api9
pydantic8
rest7
asgi7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
litestar-org/litestar
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Production-ready, Light, Flexible and Extensible ASGI API framework | Effortlessly Build Performant APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 2 commits, 22 PRs in 14 days
Contributions summary:Abdulhaq primarily focused on improving the Litestar framework's Data Transfer Object (DTO) functionality and OpenAPI schema generation. Their contributions involved fixing issues related to DTO responses, prioritizing plugins during DTO creation, and implementing an alias generator for DTO field names. They also addressed bugs and enhanced existing features to provide better support for nested fields and composite types within the SQLAlchemy DTO.
api-clientapiasgipythonredoc
django-json-api/django-rest-framework-json-api
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
JSON:API support for Django REST framework
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 29 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Abdulhaq's commits primarily focus on implementing and improving automated testing within the Django REST Framework JSON API repository. They introduced automated tests for various environments, including Django 1.8, DRF 3.1, and DRF 3.2, as well as adding tests for factories and paginated responses. The user's contributions involved writing and modifying test files, indicating a strong focus on ensuring the project's quality and reliability through automated testing.
apipythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangorest-framework
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