Kareem Elshahawy
Software Engineering Manager - Rufus Product at Amazon
Berlin, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKareem Elshahawy is a seasoned software engineering leader with 12+ years building distributed systems and customer-facing experiences, currently managing the Rufus product at Amazon from Berlin. He led the end-to-end engineering and launch of Rufus GenAI shopping experiences across Amazon’s most visited pages, shaping org structure and a multi-year roadmap for roughly 60 engineers. Kareem blends hands-on full-stack experience—contributing to open-source visualization tooling like the Banana for Solr project—with a strong backend pedigree across AWS EC2, billing, and Alexa Shopping. He’s skilled at designing streaming, orchestration, and experimentation platforms that accelerate A/B testing and time-to-value for product teams. Known for mentoring cross-functional teams and improving developer velocity, he also brings a track record of shipping pragmatic, data-driven solutions that impact millions of users.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree BSc. Computer and Systems Engineering, Bachelor's Degree BSc. Computer and Systems Engineering at Alexandria UniversityHigh School Mathematical Sciences, High School Mathematical Sciences at Jamal Abdulnasser Secondary School
Arabic, English, German
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
angularjs10
if-statement9
solr9
web-development9
data-visualization8
html8
d3js8
data-visualisation8
css8
data-visualizations8
recursion6
angularjs-service6
angularjs-directive6
java6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lucidworks/banana
Apr 2014 - Feb 2015
Banana for Solr - A Port of Kibana
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:86 commits, 8 PRs, 5 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Kareem primarily contributed to the development of a "bettermap" panel and a table panel within the "banana" project. They added support for latitude and longitude fields, enabled filter queries and provided the functionality for exporting data in various file formats. They also implemented the "hits" panel and performed minor refactoring and modernization of panel components.
kibanabananasolr
karimfikry/wavesurfer-angular
Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 release, 11 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
wavesurferdirectivewrappingangularjsangular
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