Amir Alkam
Software Engineer at Foothill Technology Solutions, LLC.
Ramallah, West Bank Palestine State
Summary
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Top SchoolAmir Alkam is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and operating scalable back-end systems, currently at Foothill Technology Solutions. He specializes in Elixir and Go, with deep DevOps expertise—designing Kubernetes-based deployments, Terraform infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines for high-availability analytical APIs. At Userpilot he led a ClickHouse-backed analytics migration, tuned BEAM VM memory behavior to fix production memory leaks, and automated autoscaling and deployments using GitHub Actions and EKS. Earlier roles saw him bootstrap CI/CD and E2E testing frameworks, containerize workloads, and run API gateways and observability stacks for production services. An active open-source contributor, he has maintained and modernized Go tooling in well-known repos like matryer/vice, improving module support and queue integrations. Based in Ramallah, Amir combines systems-level troubleshooting with pragmatic engineering to deliver resilient, performance-tuned services.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Birzeit University
English, Arabic
Github Skills (11)
golang10
aws-sqs-fifo10
go-modules10
channel10
go10
amazon-sqs10
message-queue10
aws-sdk9
testing8
nat7
natsio7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
matryer/vice
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Go channels at horizontal scale (powered by message queues)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 26 commits, 4 PRs in 26 days
Contributions summary:Amir primarily contributed to the `vice` repository, which focuses on message queue-powered Go channels. Their work included supporting Go modules by adding a `go.mod` file and updating dependencies. They also regenerated sqs fakes, and re-enabled NSQ tests while correcting some import paths and fixing issues in the SQS implementations. These changes suggest a focus on maintaining and updating the project's dependencies and underlying infrastructure.
golangidiomaticqueuesmessage-queuescale
ojizero/php_serializer
Nov 2020 - Mar 2025
PHP serialize/unserialize functional for Elixir lang
Contributions:1 push, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
unserializephpelixirlangelixir-lang
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