Islam Mostafa is a senior software engineer and founder with 12+ years of cross-domain experience building hardware, fintech, and AI products from prototype to production. He co-founded two IoT startups that shipped tens of thousands of devices to 120+ countries and ran an 8x-funded Kickstarter, then transitioned to backend and payments work—leading treasury teams at Adyen and MoneyHash that moved billions across 90+ currencies and reached PCI Level 1 readiness. Today he balances a role building hospitality operations systems at Tebi with solo-building AI Stickers, a production-focused generative-AI creative tool. He thrives where product, systems, and constraints intersect, often delivering work that sits outside neat job descriptions and spans circuit boards to scalable backend services. Based in Amsterdam, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep systems thinking and a habit of owning adjacent layers rather than passing problems along.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
9-Month Diploma, System Development, 9-Month Diploma, System Development at Information Technology Institute (ITI)
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering at Helwan University Cairo
Contributions:3 releases, 6 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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