Ahmed Mahmoud
Engineering Manager at Zalando
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed Mahmoud is an engineering manager based in Berlin with 12 years of experience building and leading cross-cultural frontend teams and frameworks. He moved up through hands-on roles at Zalando from software engineer to engineering manager, combining technical leadership with pragmatic design of client-side architectures and style guides. Skilled in JavaScript and React/TypeScript ecosystems, he contributes to notable open-source projects such as react-admin, where he improved testing and query-parameter handling. Previously he led web development at HSBC, driving component-based frameworks, performance optimizations, and Scrum adoption across distributed teams. Beyond engineering, he’s a style guide author, poet, photographer and avid table tennis player, reflecting a creative mindset that influences his approach to UX and team culture. He holds a degree from Al-Azhar University and brings a rare mix of design sensibility and production-grade frontend engineering.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor on libraries and information science, Libraries, Good, Bachelor on libraries and information science, Libraries, Good at Al-Azhar University
English, Arabic
Stackoverflow
744reputation
27kreached
14answers
8questions
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
jes10
typescript10
jestjs10
typescript-types10
jtest10
web-framework10
typescripts10
frontend10
web-frontend10
react-admin10
react10
admin-interface9
admin8
dashboard7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
marmelab/react-admin
Aug 2019 - Jul 2024
A frontend Framework for single-page applications on top of REST/GraphQL APIs, using TypeScript, React and Material Design
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily contributed to the testing and development of the `react-admin` framework. Their work involved adding unit tests to ensure the correct behavior of the `useListParams` hook, specifically focusing on how it handles custom query parameters. They also addressed a bug by removing query parameter sanitization. The user also made changes related to testing infrastructure and syncing parameters with location.
on-topreactjsreact-adminbrowserjavascript
m3ntorship/ghiras-cms
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
charity-cms
Contributions:30 PRs, 102 pushes, 13 branches in 8 months
cmsreactcharity
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