Ahmed Shahwan
Senior Software Engineer at Foodics
New Cairo City, Cairo, Egypt
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Top SchoolAhmed Shahwan is a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience designing and shipping payment and fintech systems across the MENA region, specializing in backend development with Python/Django and PHP/Laravel. He has repeatedly led architecture and integration efforts for multi-provider payment orchestration, wallets, subscriptions, and RBAC systems that handle high transaction volumes and complex merchant hierarchies. At Foodics he’s building a fintech product for Saudi customers while mentoring engineers and shaping coding standards, and his prior roles include end-to-end payment platform work that improved success rates and restored payment context during 3DS flows. Known for solving tricky production issues—webhook race conditions, atomic transactions, API versioning—he blends pragmatic engineering with product-focused design. Based in New Cairo, he brings a track record of turning regulatory and regional payments complexity into reliable, scalable SaaS experiences.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Zagazig University
English, Arabic
Stackoverflow
75reputation
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4answers
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Github Skills (106)
python10
django10
bootstrap-theme10
telegram-bot10
django-admin10
coreui10
gofmt10
bootstrap10
autopep810
form-fields10
pre-commit-hook10
yapf10
thermal-printer9
recurly9
api9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
egypt-shops/xshop-docs
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
XShop's Documentation (High-level design, user stories, wireframes, mindmaps, and project's manual)
Contributions:39 reviews, 61 commits, 34 PRs in 7 months
mindmapxshop
shahwan42/django-shop
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:48 commits, 3 pushes, 1 issue in 28 days
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