Islam Amer
Engineer at Aardsoft / GE Healthcare
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolIslam Amer is a pragmatic systems and release engineer with 16 years of experience building CI/CD, integration and automation infrastructure for telecom, healthcare and media teams across Europe and the Middle East. A self-taught GNU/Linux expert and long-time FLOSS contributor, he has led release engineering and OBS management at Nokia and designed CI and release systems at Jolla while currently driving engineering work at Aardsoft/GE Healthcare. He combines deep low-level skills (C/C++, embedded and real-time systems, cross-compilation) with cloud and DevOps practice (container build automation, caching and multi-arch releases) demonstrated by his work automating realm-js build/publish workflows. Comfortable from server and network administration to Python/Django web apps and workflow engines, he’s known for reducing build times, enabling pre-release automation, and keeping complex systems reliably deployable. Based in Helsinki, he brings a blend of hands-on craftsmanship and pragmatic system-level design that often surfaces novel, low-cost automation improvements.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Medicine, B.Sc, Medicine at Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University
English, Arabic
Github Skills (19)
github-ci10
docker10
crossbuild10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
build-automation10
cross-compiling10
githubaction-workflow10
react-native9
ios9
mobile9
arm8
cmake8
ccache8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
realm/realm-js
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Realm is a mobile database: an alternative to SQLite & key-value stores
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer / Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer / Automation EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 25 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Islam's contributions primarily focused on automating build and release processes for the realm-js project. They implemented and updated workflows for building and publishing Linux containers, including cross-compilation for different architectures. Additionally, the user optimized build times by integrating caching mechanisms, and managed updates to container configurations to support newer compiler versions. They also made updates to the `set-version.sh` script and `regen-info-plist.sh` for enabling pre-releasing and updating the plist files.
realm-mobile-databasereact-nativenosql-databasemobile-databasereactnative
aardsoft/bureaucrat
Feb 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 3 months
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