Al-amjad Isstaif
PhD Student at University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAl-amjad Isstaif is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge’s Systems Research Group with 14 years’ experience building and advising on distributed, cloud and edge systems for IoT/5G-enabled infrastructure. He researches self-scaling network services using lightweight virtualization and distributed tracing, while bringing practical product experience from founding Munity and prototyping MVPs for startups. A seasoned educator and organizer, he led curriculum redesign and large practical labs at Damascus University and co-founded Wikilogia, which delivered 250+ workshops to empower thousands of engineering students. Comfortable bridging academia, startups and international development, he has a rare combination of deep systems research training (MPhil, Distinction) and hands-on delivery across cloud migrations, performance debugging and digital transformation. Notably, he has applied his technical skills to both entrepreneurial platforms and community-focused IoT pilots in conflict-affected regions.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Computer Science, Distinction, Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Computer Science, Distinction at University of CambridgeMaster’s Degree in Big Data Systems, Master’s Degree in Big Data Systems at Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and TechnologyBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Final grade (83.41%) ranking first among 68 colleagues, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Final grade (83.41%) ranking first among 68 colleagues at Damascus UniversityHigh School Degree, High School Degree at Al-Saade School
Arabic, English
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Github Skills (28)
dedicated7
reloading7
mongodb6
asset-pipeline6
ruby-on-rails6
nodejs6
php6
bundler6
webpack6
jquery-plugin6
twitter-bootstrap6
javascript6
middleware6
mysql6
react5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wikitechie/microcommunity-rails
Mar 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:132 commits in 1 month
social-networkemergentsocial-platformcustomizedcommunities
wikitechie/microcommunity
May 2012 - Mar 2016
Contributions:473 commits, 1 push in 3 years 10 months
social-networkreactdedicatednodejsreactjs
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