Ahmed Kamal
Senior Software Engineer at Nord Security
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed Kamal is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of hands-on experience building highly available web systems using Go and LAMP, and a track record of delivering scalable microservices and search optimizations. He co-founded and scaled Nilecode to 40 employees, leading engineering, building auto-scaling AWS infrastructure, and shipping streaming and high-load solutions early in his career. At Contorion and ParkU he drove search migration and microservice adoption, improving relevance and CTR while applying DDD and load-simulation techniques in Go. Now at Nord Security, he brings deep backend expertise, pragmatic refactoring skills, and a knack for mentoring and talent development. An active open-source contributor, he has repeatedly refined edge-case behavior in CakePHP’s core Text::truncate, showing attention to detail that prevents subtle production bugs. Long-term, he’s transitioning toward leadership in machine learning while continuing to solve complex distributed systems problems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School, A, High School, A at Kishk Secondary SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computers & Automatic Control, B, Bachelor’s Degree, Computers & Automatic Control, B at Tanta University
Arabic, English, German
Stackoverflow
126reputation
22kreached
6answers
4questions
Github Skills (18)
debug10
cakephp10
strings10
text-manipulation10
php10
web-framework10
mvc8
concurrency6
cookie6
mocking6
css6
drupal6
validation6
regex6
phpunit6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cakephp/cakephp
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
CakePHP: The Rapid Development Framework for PHP - Official Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily focused on fixing a string truncation issue within the CakePHP framework. Their contributions centered around the `Text::truncate` method, addressing edge cases where the ellipsis or length calculations caused unexpected results. The commits repeatedly corrected logic errors, specifically targeting scenarios when the `$truncate` value was problematic or the original string length caused issues with the truncation. This included multiple iterations and refinements of the solution.
php-frameworkormform-buildervalidationpsr-7
ahmedkamals/dev-environment
Jan 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:12 PRs, 23 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 9 months
a-shelldevdev-environmentlinuxbash
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