Ahmed Moustafa
Software Development Engineer I at Amazon
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed Moustafa is a software engineer focused on building scalable, test-driven systems with a strong foundation in distributed/parallel computing and deep learning. A Cornell MEng and dual BA graduate in Computer Science and Mathematics, he pairs rigorous mathematical reasoning with practical cloud-native engineering practiced across multiple Amazon teams. In two years of professional experience he has shipped full-stack and backend services using AWS (CDK, Lambda, ECS, S3, DynamoDB), TypeScript/Node and Java, and contributed fixes and S3-focused enhancements to the widely used aws-cli open-source project. He has also supported education as a TA for operating systems and discrete math, reflecting a habit of explaining complex ideas clearly. Known for an early start in programming and a breadth spanning cybersecurity, game development, and graphics, he brings both curiosity and production discipline to developer experience and distributed systems work.
2 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Cornell University4.0, 4.0 at Bayonne High School
English, Arabic, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
aws-s310
aws10
amazon-s310
pytest10
aws-cli10
python10
s3-bucket10
pagination9
cloud-infrastructure8
command-line-interface8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-cli
Jul 2024 - Apr 2025
Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:127 reviews, 97 PRs, 57 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ahmed made several contributions focused on improving the AWS CLI. They fixed a bug related to S3 Express support and added functionality for flexible checksums for S3 commands. The user also implemented a warning for non-positive values in the max-items pagination parameter and deprecated the 'Expires' timestamp in S3 events, indicating a focus on code quality, deprecation handling, and S3 command improvements. Additionally, the user addressed a non-deterministic S3 test failure and enabled support for loading files into nested parameter values.
aws-clicommand-line-interfaceamazonweb-servicescloud
aemous/CLASS-SP24
Jan 2024 - May 2024
CS 5220 homework in Spring 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 399 pushes, 13 branches in 3 months
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