Ahmed Refaey
Infrastructure Software Engineer at Scale AI
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAhmed Refaey is an infrastructure software engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, highly scalable systems across startups and enterprise teams in London. He blends backend expertise in Go, Python, Java and Scala with deep operational experience in Kubernetes, eventing, and DevOps—having contributed to the Kyma open-source project to align event delivery with the CloudEvents spec. A former SRE and tech lead, he has led cloud migrations, data pipeline and API projects that improved efficiency and reduced costs at firms like Baringa and SAP. Comfortable from high-level architecture down to low-level systems code, he brings an early hacker’s curiosity (coding since age 11) and a pragmatic, open-source-first mindset to complex distributed systems.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering at Mansoura University
English, Arabic, Turkish, French
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Github Skills (21)
git10
kubernetes10
github10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
knative10
python9
cloud-native9
yaml8
cicd7
dockers7
docker7
pip6
macos6
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kyma-project/kyma
Jul 2018 - Feb 2021
Kyma is an opinionated set of Kubernetes-based modular building blocks, including all necessary capabilities to develop and run enterprise-grade cloud-native applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:38 reviews, 81 commits, 188 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily contributed to the Kyma project's eventing component, focusing on improving its functionality and maintainability. The user updated the event bus chart version and fixed events tokens literals. They also implemented code changes to align the event delivery with the cloud events specification. The contributions include enhancements related to eventing controller and enabling custom extension headers.
cloud-nativekuberneteskymaknative
montaro/dotfiles
Dec 2020 - Dec 2025
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 1 month
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