Ahmed Leithy
Software Development Engineer 2 at Microsoft
Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed Leithy is a Software Development Engineer 2 at Microsoft with six years of professional experience building reliable back-end systems and SDKs. He has contributed to high-profile open-source projects such as the Azure SDK for .NET and Microsoft.Recognizers.Text, improving document translation features, adding glossary support, and refining multilingual text and date/time recognition logic. His work blends pragmatic refactoring, unit testing, and feature development, showing strength in .NET and cross-language parsing challenges. Rising through roles at Microsoft after internships and early web development work, he brings both production engineering rigor and research-oriented problem solving. Based in Egypt, he combines global product-scale contributions with attention to accuracy in language and translation features—an often-overlooked but critical aspect of developer-facing SDKs.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The American University in Cairo
Github Skills (24)
parserator10
datetime10
javascript10
parser10
python10
azure-sdk10
net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
microsoft-azure10
datetimes10
java10
asp-net10
javas10
dates10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-net
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for .NET. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-net.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 reviews, 30 commits, 39 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ahmed's contributions center around the .NET SDK for Azure services. They made changes related to the Document Translation service within the SDK, including removing unused code snippets and adding a Document Translation Model Factory. The user also implemented unit tests and added the functionality for glossary usage. Additionally, the user worked on refactoring by renaming project and class names, as well as fixing code comments.
dotnetversionedazure-functionssdkconsumers
microsoft/Recognizers-Text
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Microsoft.Recognizers.Text provides recognition and resolution of numbers, units, date/time, etc. in multiple languages (ZH, EN, FR, ES, PT, DE, IT, TR, HI, NL. Partial support for JA, KO, AR, SV). Packages available at: https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text, https://www.npmjs.com/~recognizers.text
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 14 reviews, 5 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ahmed's contributions primarily involve enhancing the functionality of the text recognizers across multiple programming languages and platforms. They made several code changes to recognize numbers, including adding new definitions in German and addressing currency resolution issues in Javascript. The user also worked on improving the accuracy of date and time parsing, adding support for holiday and weekend patterns as well as resolving issues with the "last week of this month" resolution. The user's work indicates expertise in refining the core parsing logic and improving the quality of the text recognition library.
kebab-casepythoncorpus-linguisticsprefixmicrosoft
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