Summary
Ahmed Mekkawy is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, high-performance backend systems across fintech, ad tech, and real estate platforms. He excels at refactoring large codebases, optimizing performance, and improving observability while delivering features like centralized notifications, AI-driven automation, and recommendation engines. Ahmed has led teams and technical decisions as a tech lead, mentoring engineers and shaping product backlogs to balance delivery with maintainability. His hands-on work spans Golang and Ruby on Rails, stream processing (Kafka/Kinesis), and analytical stores like ClickHouse, reflecting a strong data- and performance-oriented mindset. Based in Cairo, he combines startup agility with enterprise-grade reliability and a proven record of launching region-specific applications and integrations that measurably improve throughput and latency.
10 years of coding experience