Hosam Aly
Head Of Engineering at exequt
Jeddah, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia
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Top SchoolHosam Aly is a results-driven Head of Engineering and polyglot software engineer with 15 years of professional experience and 20+ years of coding expertise, currently based in Jeddah. He specialises in scaling engineering organisations, improving developer productivity, and driving long-term quality through process, tooling and culture change. Hands-on across backend, cloud and CI/CD, he has led architecture and delivery for enterprise applications using Java, Scala, Ruby, TypeScript and AWS/Azure, and delivered measurable improvements like major CI speedups and dramatic production performance gains. As a prolific problem-solver and mentor he consistently upskills teams, reduces technical debt, and embeds observability and testing best practices—contributions recognised by repeat contracts and leadership roles. An active open-source contributor and top 1% StackOverflow member, his work spans well-known projects including enhancements to guard-rspec and Scala XML tooling (scalaxb), reflecting a deep focus on testability and code-generation robustness. He pairs pragmatic engineering with a long-term view of team growth, often uncovering costly inefficiencies and turning them into measurable savings.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc., Computer Science, B. Sc., Computer Science at Cairo University
Arabic, English, French
Stackoverflow
42,008reputation
3.5mreached
173answers
98questions
sql
top-5%
java
top-1%
ubuntu
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routes
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rest
top-5%
language-agnostic
top-1%
Github Skills (31)
testing10
rspec10
language-agnostic10
iostream10
java10
scala10
ruby10
ubuntu10
stream10
code-generation10
routes10
xml10
mongodb10
test-automation10
matlab9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
eed3si9n/scalaxb
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
scalaxb is an XML data binding tool for Scala.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 9 PRs, 26 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Hosam contributed to the scalaxb project, an XML data binding tool for Scala, by implementing features related to handling XML schema complexities. They addressed issues with identifier capitalization in generated code, added options to control the handling of non-identifier characters in class names, and refactored the symbol encoding strategy. These changes improved the flexibility and robustness of the code generation process, making it more adaptable to various XML schema conventions.
xml-datadata-bindingxmlscalaxbscala
guard/guard-rspec
Sep 2012 - Sep 2012
Guard::RSpec automatically run your specs (much like autotest)
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Hosam focused on enhancing the testing capabilities of the `guard-rspec` gem. Their contributions involved adding and refining RSpec tests to validate the functionality of the `Guard::RSpec::Runner`, specifically covering options parsing and output formatting. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of RSpec testing, including ERb evaluation, multiple formatters, and output file specifications. These changes ensured the robustness and reliability of the gem's behavior.
railsrubyspecsrspecautotest
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