Ahmed Akef
Software Engineer II at Uber
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
Summary
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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.
11 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
Stackoverflow
301reputation
13kreached
6answers
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Github Skills (81)
elasticsearch10
flask10
git-remote10
rest10
shell10
codemirror10
search-engine10
java10
restful10
wsgi9
golang9
python9
go9
micro-framework8
visualizer8
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/PathBuilder
Jan 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:1 release, 42 commits, 22 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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