Ahmed Gad
Senior Software Engineer at Pearson
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed Gad is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cairo with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling web and mobile systems across e-commerce, fintech, ERP, and healthcare. He specializes in backend architecture with Laravel while delivering polished Vue.js frontends and has led end-to-end projects using Docker, CI/CD, and cloud-native tooling. Ahmed has held technical lead and head-of-engineering roles, driving complex product launches like the Stox fulfillment center and payment platforms at CowPay, where he navigated intricate business logic and compliance constraints. Comfortable both leading teams and being deeply technical, he pairs pragmatic system design with a habit of exploring new tech to simplify long-term maintenance. A practical mentor and problem-solver, he often bridges desktop ERP ecosystems with modern SaaS layers—an often-overlooked strength that helps legacy businesses modernize quickly.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Cairo Higher Institute for Engineering, Computer Science and Management
Arabic, English
Github Skills (28)
simple-gui10
lumen8
laravel7
laravel-package7
php7
translator6
indexing6
caching6
translation6
eloquent6
architecture6
logging5
voyager5
localhost5
search-engine5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
motwreen/translation
Jun 2019 - Nov 2020
A simple GUI for Laravel Translation.
Contributions:25 releases, 36 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 4 months
translationphpvoyagerlaravel-translationgui
TheAhmedGad/envify
Apr 2024 - Jun 2024
Environment installer for Debian systems
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 53 PRs in 2 months
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