Ahmed Shafik
Senior Software Engineer at Confluent
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed Shafik is a Senior Software Engineer with four years of professional experience focused on Java and stream processing, now contributing to Confluent Cloud’s managed Flink offerings. He has a strong open-source footprint in Apache Flink—improving Kinesis connector compatibility, refactoring partition key generators, and hardening end-to-end tests—which underscores deep expertise in data streaming and connector development. His background includes roles at Ververica, AWS, and Microsoft, pairing cloud-scale engineering with hands-on back-end development. A Cambridge-based engineer with a Computer Engineering degree from Alexandria University, he also brings an entrepreneurial streak from co-founding an education startup teaching robotics and embedded systems to youth.
4 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, A-, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, A- at Alexandria University
English, Arabic
Github Skills (10)
javas10
amazon-kinesis10
data-streaming10
aws10
apache-flink10
kin10
java10
testing9
sql8
big-data7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/flink
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Apache Flink
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 reviews, 22 commits, 39 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ahmed's contributions primarily involve enhancing the Kinesis connector within the Apache Flink project. They focused on improving backward compatibility for the Kinesis connector by modifying the `AWSConfigConstants` class and removing dependencies on assertions in tests. Furthermore, they made significant changes to the codebase, including refactoring partition key generators and modifying the end-to-end tests, showcasing an understanding of data streaming and connector development. The user also addressed issues related to request handling and improved throttling mechanisms.
apache-flinkscalajavabig-dataflink
vahmed-hamdy/flink
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Apache Flink
Contributions:2 PRs, 189 pushes, 41 branches in 3 years 4 months
flinkapachebig-datadatastreamapache-flink
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