Ehtesham Kafeel
Engineering Manager at Alef Education
Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolEhtesham Kafeel is an engineering manager based in Abu Dhabi with over 13 years of hands-on software development experience and a pragmatic, data-driven approach to solving business problems. He leads cross-functional teams with empathy, focusing on talent development, developer experience, and practical observability to improve system behavior and troubleshooting. At Alef Education he drove strategic migrations (monolith to microservices), introduced APM and feature flagging, and built an Internal Developer Portal to boost productivity and standardization. He also contributed backend improvements to the widely used Open edX platform, implementing safeguards to prevent resource exhaustion. Comfortable shipping from code to architecture, he blends technical depth in Kotlin/Spring/React/GraphQL with a knack for cost-saving platform decisions and team enablement.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSCS, computer science, BSCS, computer science at FAST NU
English, Urdu
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Github Skills (20)
openedx10
data-service10
python10
django10
testing10
webservice10
bookmark10
backend10
cakephp9
javascript9
jquery9
validation9
rest-api9
jquery-selectors6
html6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/edx-platform
Dec 2015 - Aug 2016
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 48 PRs, 224 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ehtesham implemented a backend feature to limit the maximum number of bookmarks per course within the Open edX platform. They made changes to the bookmarks API, views, and tests to incorporate this functionality. The user also updated the API tests and pagination-related code. These changes focused on improving the user experience and preventing potential resource exhaustion.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
aminitoy/SynthiaUI
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
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