Ahmed Etefy
Member Of Technical Staff, AI Data
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAhmed Etefy is a seasoned backend-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable data and infrastructure systems, currently working as a Member of Technical Staff on AI data at Microsoft AI. He has led and grown engineering teams at AssemblyAI and Aptoide, driving data infrastructure, search, and high-availability backend architectures that serve millions of users. A prolific open-source contributor to Sentry’s Python and JavaScript SDKs and core platform, he’s improved serverless tracing, Django async middleware, session tracking, and the metrics/query layer—work that touches a widely used error-monitoring stack. Based in London, he blends pragmatic engineering discipline with a collaborative, people-first approach and a willingness to tackle hard problems rather than seek easy wins. An underappreciated trait: he pairs deep systems-level refactors with careful test coverage, reducing concurrency and propagation bugs in real production integrations.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at The German University in CairoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at International School of Choueifat
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Github Skills (33)
asynchronous10
monitoring10
javascript10
middleware10
sentry10
back-end-development10
python10
async10
django10
aws-lambda10
typescript10
wsgi10
sdk10
error-log10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:792 reviews, 280 commits, 486 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Sentry platform, focusing on the metrics layer. Their work involved refactoring the metrics abstraction layer to improve code quality and validation. Key contributions included adding support for various metrics operations, integrating and aliasing features, as well as bug fixes related to query handling, making the query engine more robust.
monitorpythonsentrydjangoerror-monitoring
getsentry/sentry-python
Feb 2021 - Jul 2021
The official Python SDK for Sentry.io
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 28 commits, 80 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily focused on enhancing the Django integration within the Sentry Python SDK. Their contributions involved significant refactoring of middleware, including handling asynchronous views and middleware functions, addressing concurrency issues, and integrating with the `X-Forwarded-For` header. They also implemented improvements to session tracking and serverless instrumentation within the SDK and added tests to ensure functionality.
sentry-iopythonsentrysdksentry-python
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