Ahmed Derbala
Freelance Software Engineer at Self-Employed
Sfax, Tunisia
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Top SchoolAhmed Derbala is a pragmatic freelance Node.js backend engineer with eight years of hands-on experience and a focused four-year trajectory in building high-performance, scalable services using Express.js, NestJS, Socket.io and Docker. He has driven production integrations with Stripe and PartnerStack, improved API performance and observability with Grafana and Winston, and implemented robust logging and scaling patterns across startups and scale-ups. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs backend expertise with mobile/frontend exposure (Expo/React) and practical cloud/VPS deployments, often taking ownership of CI/CD and monitoring. Based in Tunisia and open to immediate relocation to Europe, he excels in fast-paced B2B engagements and brings a track record of code audits, refactoring and mission-critical integrations that reduce operational friction. Notably, his work spans both product development and hiring/mentoring, having authored course content and led interview processes to grow engineering teams.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Mobile development, Engineer's degree Mobile development at Ecole Supérieure Privée d'Ingénierie et de Technologies - ESPRITBachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Faculté des Sciences de Sfax
Arabic, English, French, Italian
Github Skills (2)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ahmed-derbala/express-starter
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:35 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
ahmed-derbala/socketio-monitor
Jun 2019 - Apr 2024
a tool to test socket.io
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
websockettest-socketsocketsocket-io
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