Ahmed Elghareeb
Software Engineer at Resilio I B Corp certified
Chavannes-près-Renens, Vaud, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed Elghareeb is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building scalable backend and cloud systems using Python, Django, TypeScript, Docker and distributed tooling. He combines product-focused engineering (payments, loans, backoffice workflows) with research-grade prototyping at EPFL, where he’s worked on digital identity, adversarial AI and privacy-preserving ML like homomorphic encryption and decentralized learning. Ahmed has led cross-border teams, driven platform redesigns (including a payment system rework and ML-driven risk scoring), and contributed to notable open-source projects such as maintenance and modernization of the popular django-environ library. Based in Switzerland, he pairs strong systems design and long-term planning skills with a curious research mindset—reading papers and spinning up language-agnostic proofs-of-concept to validate emerging standards.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering at Mansoura UniversityMicroMasters on Statistics and Data Science Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, MicroMasters on Statistics and Data Science Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at MITx on edX
English, Arabic, French, Japanese
Github Skills (5)
python10
django10
testing9
urllib9
cicd8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
joke2k/django-environ
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Django-environ allows you to utilize 12factor inspired environment variables to configure your Django application.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily focused on improving the compatibility and maintainability of the `django-environ` library. Their contributions included refactoring code to remove Python 2/3 compatibility layers and leveraging modern Python features. They also updated the project's dependencies and CI configuration to support newer Python versions, while also modifying test configurations.
12-factordjangodjango-environpythontwelve-factor
c4dt/eid-demo
Jan 2024 - May 2025
Diploma issuance using the Swiss Governments Public Sandbox Test Infrastructure
Contributions:10 reviews, 11 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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