Summary
Abdullah Elkady is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building full-stack, production-grade systems, currently working at Cohere after key engineering roles at Shahry and DIGIS Squared. A Computer Science and Engineering graduate from the German University in Cairo, he has deep hands-on experience with Python/Django, DRF, PostgreSQL, Celery, Docker, AWS and messaging systems like RabbitMQ and Redis. He helped launch Shahry as a founding core engineer, owning API design, dashboards, integrations and infrastructure pipelines, and has steady freelance experience delivering contract work. Known for meticulous, detail-oriented code—self-described OCD about craftsmanship—he combines pragmatic system design with an insistence on quality and performance. Based in Cairo with ties to Canada, he brings both startup grit and disciplined engineering practices to scaling cloud-native services.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science Engineering at The German University in Cairo