Ahmed Awad
Professor at The British University in Dubai
United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolAhmed Awad is a Professor and seasoned software leader with 17 years of experience specializing in business process management, compliance, process querying and monitoring, and database technologies. He splits his time between academic roles at The British University in Dubai and the University of Tartu while bringing practical product and engineering leadership from a decade as Technical Director at Desert Fox. Ahmed excels at translating business-level requirements into technical architectures, designing data layers from conceptual to physical models, and enforcing development best practices through code review and white-box testing. His background blends rigorous research—Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science—with hands-on consulting and product delivery, giving him a rare combination of academic depth and industry execution. Based in the UAE, he is known for fostering cross-border engineering collaboration and for turning compliance and monitoring challenges into actionable, auditable solutions.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat, Computer Science, Magna cum Laude, Dr. rer. nat, Computer Science, Magna cum Laude at Universität PotsdamMaster of Science, Information Systems, Master of Science, Information Systems at Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University
English, Arabic, German
Github Skills (18)
esper9
process-mining8
algebra7
trie7
java7
complex-event-processing7
streaming6
open-source4
sql4
data-structures4
compiler4
graph-algorithms3
chain2
jgrapht2
graph-theory2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DataSystemsGroupUT/ICEP
Nov 2018 - Sep 2020
D2IA is a Flink library that uses Flink CEP to declaratively define event intervals and reason about their relationships using Allen's interval algebra.
Contributions:41 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 1 year 10 months
flinkintervalalgebraallencep
DataSystemsGroupUT/Adaptive-Watermarks
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:10 commits in 11 days
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