Summary
Alaa Mohamed is a Senior Software Engineer II with seven years of experience building scalable backend systems and cloud-native infrastructure from Egypt. He has led platform transformations—migrating fragile, manual deployments to production-grade Kubernetes environments—and redesigned authentication/authorization for centralized identity management. His work at Procore included modernizing PHP/Symfony microservices, introducing real-time webhooks, and streaming SQL events to Elasticsearch via Kafka for reliable, low-latency pipelines. Comfortable across SRE and backend roles, he pairs a mathematics minor and algorithms grounding with hands-on DevOps automation and cross-team technical leadership. An open-source enthusiast, Alaa favors OSS tooling to refine his development workflow and enjoys mentoring interns and collaborating on measurable performance improvements.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Science, Technology, and Engineering, High School Diploma, Science, Technology, and Engineering at STEM Egypt High School
Bachelor's degree, Major: Computer Engineering, Minor: Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Major: Computer Engineering, Minor: Mathematics at The American University in Cairo
Arabic, English, French