Ahmad Aabed
Senior Engineering Manager Tribe Lead at Yassir
El Nada Compound, Giza, Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmad Aabed is a Senior Engineering Manager and Tribe Lead with 11 years of experience building resilient infrastructure and shipping product-focused engineering outcomes. He blends hands-on DevOps/SRE expertise with leadership roles from Infrastructure Team Lead to CTO, currently guiding engineering at Yassir. His background includes security-focused work (malware hunting, honeypot contributions to Cowrie and Modern Honey Network) that surfaces in pragmatic logging, observability, and ELK-driven analytics improvements. Ahmad is comfortable across backend, DevOps, and platform domains, routinely turning operational data into dashboards and actionable insights. Colleagues know him for prioritizing strong developer experience while driving measurable business value. Based in Giza, Egypt, he combines deep technical craft with a record of scaling teams and systems in fast-moving startups.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Software Engineering; B.Sc Information Technology Institute; Computer science; Very Good, Diploma of Software Engineering; B.Sc Information Technology Institute; Computer science; Very Good at Mansoura City UniversityBSC Computer Science, BSC Computer Science at Mansoura UniversityITI "information technology institute"
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
python10
amazon-elasticsearch10
kibana10
elasticsearchquery10
honeypot10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
ssh10
elasticsearch-api10
api-design9
data-visualizations9
api-rest9
security9
data-visualisation9
devops9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pwnlandia/mhn
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Modern Honey Network
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 40 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ahmad contributed significantly to the project by implementing features related to honeypot data analysis, specifically focusing on retrieving and visualizing password and user information. They added new backend functions to gather and process data from honeypot sessions, enabling the creation of charts and graphs. Furthermore, the user contributed to the infrastructure of the project by adding a script to install and configure Elasticsearch and Kibana (ELK stack) for data visualization and log management.
golangblockchainhoney
cowrie/cowrie
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Cowrie SSH/Telnet Honeypot https://docs.cowrie.org/
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Ahmad primarily focused on enhancing the logging capabilities within the Cowrie SSH honeypot, specifically modifying the `kippo/dblog/hpfeeds.py` file. Their contributions included adding the logging of commands, unknown commands, and URLs. Additionally, the user incorporated start and end time metadata for session tracking. Several commits were focused on minor improvements like fixing indentation for improved readability.
servicenowthreat-analysissshscptelnet
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