Ahmed Ammar
Senior Software Engineer at ABOUT YOU
Berlin, Germany
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SeniorAhmed Ammar is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building high-performance web and backend systems using PHP (Laravel), JavaScript frameworks (Vue, Angular), and cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and DigitalOcean. He has driven scalable architectures at companies like ABOUT YOU, Shopify, and GetYourGuide, and previously built recommendation and analytics engines handling millions of users using Golang, MongoDB, Redis and horizontally scaled systems. An active backend contributor to the core Laravel framework—adding features like @isset, batch processing improvements and circular dependency detection—he combines deep framework-level understanding with hands-on product delivery. Comfortable spanning full-stack concerns, Ahmed also has real-world experience integrating social ad APIs and migrating systems to containerized cloud deployments. Notably, he pairs practical performance tuning (APIs and widgets under 100ms) with a history of moving monoliths to robust, distributed architectures.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Arabic, English
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Github Skills (9)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
php10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
testing9
container9
documentation7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Mar 2017 - Mar 2021
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 28 PRs, 50 comments in 4 years
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Laravel framework. They focused on implementing features such as the `@isset` directive, batch processing improvements, and container improvements by adding circular dependency detection. Their work also included updates to documentation and the serialization of batch entities. The user's contributions improved the framework's functionality and reliability.
laravelphpframework
ahmedash95/valet
Dec 2019 - Mar 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
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