Amr Youssef
Staff Software Engineer at Affirm
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAmr Youssef is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 17 years of experience building scalable full‑stack systems and leading cross‑functional engineering efforts. He combines deep backend expertise (Java, Spring, Python, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, Kafka) with modern frontend skills (ES6/TypeScript, React, GraphQL) and strong ops knowledge in AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. Known for improving performance and reliability, he has led identity federation, large data ingest, and search implementations while advocating architectural improvements and observable production practices. At startups and scaleups alike he moves between hands‑on implementation and technical leadership—mentoring teams, shaping CI/CD, and writing clear technical documentation. Notably, he drove a migration from REST to GraphQL, introduced web‑worker client processing for large uploads, and implemented Keycloak‑based auth across product surfaces. He brings a pragmatic systems mindset that balances developer productivity, security, and operational resilience.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information Systems, Bachelor, Information Systems at New Cairo Academy
Arabic, English
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Github Skills (200)
multithreading10
apache-camel10
security10
microservices10
desktop-application10
api10
rest10
application10
angular10
kubernetes10
react-hooks10
yeoman-generator10
finder10
java10
hibernate10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
amr/mimetypes
Oct 2014 - Jun 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 10 pushes, 6 tags in 2 years 8 months
amr/backup-tools
Apr 2010 - Mar 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 4 years 11 months
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