Ahmed Yakout
SWE-SRE, III at Google
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAhmed Yakout is a Senior Software Engineer (SRE) with 10 years of experience building and operating large-scale, secure cloud systems, currently working on production security for Cloud Keys, Secrets, and Certificates at Google. He has deep expertise in GCP, backend data pipelines, and performance-driven migrations—having led a move from Elasticsearch to ClickHouse and rewritten critical workers in Go to boost scalability. Ahmed combines hands-on engineering with platform and release automation (Argo Workflows) and a strong operational mindset honed by on-call ownership of services handling millions of requests per minute. His background includes security hardening and HackerOne-driven vulnerability response, reflecting a practical blend of reliability and security engineering. Based in Ontario, he pairs academic roots in computer engineering with pragmatic R&D experience across cloud-agnostic and on-premise deployments. A detail that often goes unnoticed: he has balanced production SRE responsibilities with teaching experience, bringing clear communication and mentorship into high-stakes engineering environments.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.7, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.7 at Alexandria University
English, Arabic
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (83)
parser10
hierarchy10
cpp10
plsql10
paypal10
statement10
jsqlparser10
pattern10
sql10
database10
translate10
sql-parser10
flink-sql9
visitor-pattern9
ai9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yakout/DBMS
Nov 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:113 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 2 years 11 months
dbmsjdbcmanagement-systemrelationalsql-syntax
yakout/circus-of-plates
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:218 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 month
javacircusgamejavafx
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