Ahmed Shehata
Engineering Lead, Meta AI Glasses
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed Shehata is an engineering lead with 11 years of hands-on experience building consumer-facing hardware and software at Meta, currently leading the Meta AI Glasses engineering team. He blends low-level firmware and embedded experience from early co-founder work with large-scale product and system design at Meta and Zalando, favoring simple, effective solutions to everyday problems. Comfortable shipping across the stack, Ahmed has moved from PSP homebrew and game engine projects to designing mobile apps, wireless firmware, and AI-enabled wearable systems. Based in the UK, he pairs a scholarship-backed software engineering degree with a background in computer and communications engineering, which informs his pragmatic approach to complex engineering trade-offs. Colleagues would describe him as a tinkerer who scales curiosity into production-grade features, often surfacing elegant fixes where others reach for complex architectures.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer and Communications Engineering at Alexandria UniversityBSc (Scholarship) Software Engineering, BSc (Scholarship) Software Engineering at Cardiff Metropolitan University
Arabic, English, German
Github Skills (122)
visual-studio10
rgb10
editor10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
wifi10
checkout9
dac9
esp329
esp82669
swift8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ahmed-shehata/AppleStockNotifier
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
ahmed-shehata/cgtcalc
Jan 2022 - Nov 2023
A UK capital gains tax calculator written in Swift
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 year 10 months
gainscapital-gainstax-calculatorcalculatorswift
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