Kamel Gaouaoui
Staff Backend Engineer at Toptal
Algeria
Summary
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Top SchoolKamel Gaouaoui is a Staff Backend Engineer with nine years of experience designing and shipping robust web services across startups and consultancy engagements. He has progressed through senior backend roles at companies like Rapptr Labs and Oraion and now contributes to complex projects at Toptal, blending hands-on engineering with architectural thinking. Comfortable across languages and stacks—Django, Go, Rust, TypeScript—he frequently bridges backend systems with modern front-end patterns and API-first architectures. His background includes full-stack and freelance work, giving him a pragmatic product-oriented approach to engineering trade-offs. An active CTF player and lifelong learner, he brings a security-minded perspective that informs reliable, production-ready solutions. Based in Algeria with a master’s/engineer’s degree in computer science, he pairs international consulting experience with a keen interest in low-level performance and secure design.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master & Engineer's degree Computer Science, Master & Engineer's degree Computer Science at Ecole nationale superieure d'informatique
Github Skills (54)
javascript10
electron10
windows10
css10
chrome10
mouse-listener10
html10
js10
nodejs10
openlibrary9
cross-platform9
desktop9
nwjs9
v89
esi9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Scorpion197/live-Gmail-emails-classification
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:34 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
Scorpion197/Scorpion197
May 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 9 months
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