Akram Hussein
Member Of Technical Staff at Replit
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAkram Hussein is a versatile VP of Engineering and founder with 11 years of experience building product-led software and hardware across startups and large enterprises, now focused on advanced web3 hosting. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering—from C++ robotics and embedded firmware to Swift/Kotlin mobile apps and Python/Node backend services—with cloud-native infrastructure expertise (Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP). Akram has led and scaled teams through acquisitions (Vektor → Nirvana Labs, Aiden.ai → Twitter) and shipped production microservices and IoT companion apps for brands like Dyson, ZOE and the BBC. Notably, his career spans both research-grade products and consumer-facing systems, and he has appeared on BBC Two’s Big Life Fix as an inventor. Based in San Francisco, he thrives on working with multidisciplinary teams to build software and hardware that deliver measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Management and IT, BSc (Hons) Management and IT at The University of ManchesterMSc Computing Science Computer Science, MSc Computing Science Computer Science at Imperial College LondonGraphic Design, Graphic Design at University of the Arts London
Stackoverflow
862reputation
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Github Skills (60)
emc10
storage10
object-storage10
python9
aws9
ansible9
raspberry-pi8
home-automation8
iot8
mqtt8
integrate7
asyncio7
sql7
spring-boot7
database7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
akramh/react-resume-template
Mar 2021 - Aug 2025
A personal resume website template built with ReactJs
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
personal-resumereactjsreacttemplate
akramh/simple-website
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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