Ahmed Elakour
Senior Backend Engineer at Silverfin
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed Elakour is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Vienna with 13 years of experience building resilient, high-performance Ruby microservices and APIs. He has led architecture and production deployments at scale, notably at Runtastic/adidas where he developed reusable Ruby gems, optimized critical services, and collaborated closely with DevOps on Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines. Comfortable across the stack, Ahmed brings hands-on DevOps experience from earlier roles—improving test suites, deployment automation, and monitoring—which helps him bridge development and operations effectively. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from TU Graz and combines a pragmatic engineering mindset with an interest in machine learning, bringing curiosity and measurable performance improvements to complex systems.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Technische Universität GrazBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Institute of computer and information technology for aviation and aerospace
English, Arabic, German
Github Skills (56)
json-api10
request-handler10
query-parser10
dry-rb9
activemodel8
repository-pattern8
api8
pattern8
coercion8
json7
strategy-pattern7
six7
xml6
rails6
ruby6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AhmedAttyah/countries
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 commit, 1 push in 1 day
csvxmlcsv-jsonwelcomejson
AhmedAttyah/amazon-reviews
Dec 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:2 commits in 4 months
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