Eslam Hefnawy
Lead Software Engineer at Serverless Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolEslam Hefnawy is a lead software engineer with 11 years of experience building developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and high-scale backend systems from startup to production. As the first hire and founding engineer at Serverless, Inc., he helped create the Serverless Framework—used by hundreds of thousands of developers—and later led architecture for Serverless Cloud, Components, and the Dashboard. He now leads engineering for the Serverless Dashboard, scaling it to ingest billions of cloud payloads monthly and deliver sub-second queries over terabytes of observability data. Comfortable across the full stack, his open-source contributions span Node.js, Python, Ruby, and Go, and include securing GraphQL backends with JWT-based auth and cross-cloud examples for AWS, Azure, and GCP. Known for driving both technical direction and engineering best practices, he blends product-minded pragmatism with deep distributed-systems expertise. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he brings a track record of turning complex serverless ideas into widely adopted developer experiences.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport
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Github Skills (22)
authorizations10
javascript10
aws-lambda10
user-authentication10
authentication10
wpgraphql10
serverless-framework10
wordpress-graphql10
authorization10
jwt10
graphql10
serverless10
nodejs10
apidoc9
azure-functions9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/examples
May 2018 - Apr 2021
Serverless Examples – A collection of boilerplates and examples of serverless architectures built with the Serverless Framework on AWS Lambda, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Functions, and more.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 232 commits, 182 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Eslam contributed to multiple serverless examples built using the Serverless Framework. Their commits demonstrate work across various backend technologies, including Node.js with Azure and AWS, Python, Ruby, and Go. The user also made changes to frontend related files like `generate-readme.js`, indicating a full-stack understanding of the project. These contributions encompass diverse cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Functions.
serverlessaws-lambdagoogle-cloudawsmicrosoft
serverless/serverless-graphql
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Serverless GraphQL Examples for AWS AppSync and Apollo
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 2 pushes in 20 days
Contributions summary:Eslam primarily focused on implementing and refining authentication and authorization features within the GraphQL backend. They introduced JWT-based authentication, securing API endpoints and restructuring the project to include user sign-in functionality. Further contributions included using environment variables for security and integrating database interactions for user management. The user also enhanced the system by implementing a viewer pattern to consolidate endpoints.
aws-appsyncgraphql-examplesserverlessaws-lambdagraphql
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