Hisham Elsheshtawy
Software Engineer at Leland
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolHisham Elsheshtawy is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable web applications and APIs across startups and large cloud organizations, currently at Leland after a multi-year tenure at AWS Security. He blends hands-on engineering with a focus on product impact and team growth, having shipped platform features at companies like SparkMeter, CoverMyMeds, and Paymob. Hisham has a track record of refactoring monoliths into component-based architectures, improving developer workflows (including Dockerized environments and sandboxed integrations) and automating test suites. He contributes to notable open-source projects—adding Selenium-based tests to the widely used Jupyter Notebook—bringing QA and automation rigor to critical developer tooling. Based in the Salt Lake City area and educated in engineering and business, he pairs technical depth with a pragmatic mindset for cross-team delivery. A practical problem-solver, he often surfaces non-obvious efficiencies such as transforming sprawling conditional logic into modular libraries to accelerate development.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer and Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer and Systems Engineering at Ain Shams University - EngineeringScholarship, Business Administration and Management, General, Scholarship, Business Administration and Management, General at Indiana University - Kelley School of BusinessHigh School, General Studies, High School, General Studies at El Noqrashy
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
jupyter-notebook10
selenium-ide10
pytest10
selenium10
python10
jupyter10
test-automation10
jenkins6
docker6
jenkins-pipeline6
javascript4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jupyter/notebook
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Jupyter Interactive Notebook
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:26 commits, 6 PRs, 26 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Hisham's contributions focused on implementing and expanding selenium-based tests for the Jupyter notebook application. They added tests to verify the functionality of deleting cells, including scenarios with non-deletable cells and copied cells. Furthermore, the user added tests for the "undelete" feature, and the dual mode insertion of a new cell. The work involved creating new test files and modifying existing ones to incorporate these new test cases.
jupyter-notebooknotebookjupyterlabnotebooksjupyter
Sheshtawy/cellApp
Apr 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches, 2 issues in 2 years 3 months
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