Ahmed ElNahas
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarAhmed Elnahas is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience blending QA depth and backend engineering, now building scalable systems at Elastic after leadership roles at CircleCI and Themis. He has a strong track record modernizing testing and deployment pipelines and shipping backend features in Ruby, Go, Node/TypeScript, and cloud-native environments. Ahmed has led development of security- and compliance-sensitive systems—such as clinical task management and secure patient document delivery—and has hands-on experience debugging data pipelines with Kafka, Spark, and Databricks. His background in embedded and hardware engineering gives him an uncommon systems-level perspective that informs robust testing and reliability work. Based in Toronto, he combines inquisitive exploratory testing instincts with pragmatic engineering leadership to close gaps between QA and production-grade software.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (21)
performance-monitoring10
asciidoc9
java9
apm9
apm-server9
circleci9
distributed-tracing9
devops9
antora9
opentelemetry9
elasticsearch9
documentation8
opentelemetry-collector8
virus4
go3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AhmedTestOrg/go-template-project
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 62 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 6 months
aelnahas/redsmith.dev
Apr 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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