Ahmed Abdelhak
Backend Software Engineer III at trivago
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolAhmed Abdelhak is a backend software engineer with nine years of experience, currently shaping scalable microservices and cloud-native infrastructure at trivago. He specializes in Kotlin/Spring Boot, reactive streams, Kafka, and Kubernetes on GCP, and has led large migrations from PHP monoliths to performant, test-covered microservices. His work spans high-throughput data pipelines, Protocol Buffers integrations, and optimizations that materially improved bidding and ad-related workflows. Prior roles show deep experience with messaging (RabbitMQ), GraphQL/REST APIs, and mixed data stores including Elasticsearch and Redis. Based in Düsseldorf, he combines hands-on implementation with team-level ownership—driving OKRs, recruitment, documentation, and post-mortems to raise engineering quality. An occasional mobile and payments enthusiast, he also brings knowledge of POS, ISO8583 and EMV contactless systems, hinting at broader systems and hardware-aware thinking.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Post-graduate Diploma Information Technology, Post-graduate Diploma Information Technology at Information Technology Institute (ITI)High School Mathematics, High School Mathematics at Military High SchoolBachelor's degree Engineering, Bachelor's degree Engineering at Suez Canal University
English, German
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Github Skills (20)
javascript9
windows9
open-source9
android9
macos8
flutter8
cross-platform8
desktop8
ios8
material-design7
dart7
mobile6
jobservice6
web-framework5
mobile-development4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Ahabdelhak/InstaCrypto
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:39 commits, 7 pushes in 22 days
Ahabdelhak/HoroscopeApp
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:14 commits in 3 days
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