Alaa Elamri is a software engineer with seven years' experience across the Netherlands and Germany, currently building engineering-grade software at EPLAN. He brings a multidisciplinary industrial computer engineering background and hands-on expertise in embedded C++, Qt, and backend systems, having optimized energy-monitoring devices and improved backup/restore functionality in the notable open-source Bareos project. Comfortable moving between low-level embedded constraints and higher-level system design, he has a track record of reducing resource usage, introducing unit tests and development guidelines, and fixing subtle backup/date bugs. Ambitious about scientific and infrastructure software, he blends technical rigor with an interest in business development to deliver practical, production-ready solutions across domains.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Diploma (Diplôme d'ingénieur) Industrial Computer Engineering, Engineering Diploma (Diplôme d'ingénieur) Industrial Computer Engineering at École Nationale d'Electronique et des Télécommunications de Sfax (ENET'Com)
Preparatory cycle for engineering studies Mathematics - Physics - Computer Science, Preparatory cycle for engineering studies Mathematics - Physics - Computer Science at ESSTHS - École Supérieure des Sciences et de la Technologie de Hammam Sousse
Bareos is a cross-network Open Source backup solution (licensed under AGPLv3) which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:173 reviews, 553 commits, 121 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Alaa's contributions focused on enhancing the Bareos restore functionality. Their work involved adding support for shorter time formats, developing tests for these formats, and fixing bugs related to date entry. Furthermore, the user implemented fixes to various minor issues, such as the handling of quotes during configure exports and the correction of an incremental backup bug. Additionally, they also made updates to the project's documentation.
Main repository with the code for the libraries and daemons
Contributions:1388 pushes, 201 branches, 1 issue in 3 years
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