Ahmed Akef
Software Engineer II at Uber
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
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Top SchoolAhmed Akef is a software engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in systems programming and distributed systems, currently contributing to platform reliability at Uber. He has hands-on experience across the full SDLC and on-call rotations, building QoS solutions to meet strict SLAs and optimizing core components to dramatically reduce operational costs. Previously he led a team at Instabug, migrated large-scale telemetry from Elasticsearch to ClickHouse, and applied NLP to surface patterns in production data. His internship at Facebook gave him exposure to high-scale monitoring, parallel processing, and cross-team integration—skills he continues to apply in platform engineering. Based in Aarhus, he also publishes tooling from his work (e.g., gotutor, goshell, summarize) that reflect a practical focus on developer productivity and distributed tooling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs deep systems knowledge with an eye for cost and operational efficiency.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Mansoura Universityhigh school Mathematics, high school Mathematics at el hoda we alnoor
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Github Skills (117)
libgit210
opensearch10
publish10
elasticsearch10
flask10
hacklang10
git-lfs10
mailing10
shell10
search-engine10
git-addons10
java10
version-control10
mercurial10
restful10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ahmedakef/ahmedakef.github.io
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:45 commits, 52 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 7 months
ahmedakef/DeepLocate
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
Advanced File System Search Engine that have smart ways for search specified for the file system and use deep learning search in the file contents
Contributions:64 commits, 24 PRs, 63 pushes in 7 months
deep-learningsearch-enginefile-systemcontentssearch
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