Kareem Yousef
Director Of Engineering at Sahl
Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolKareem Yousef is a seasoned engineering leader with 16+ years of hands-on and org-level experience building high-scale cloud, AI, and fintech systems across startups and Big Tech. Currently Director of Engineering at Sahl, he focuses on assembling world-class teams and platforms that scale with rapid product and user growth; previously he led principal engineering efforts at Microsoft on enterprise cloud services and LLM-powered Copilot integrations. His background includes early-stage startup founding and mobile/video optimization engineering, giving him a bias for ownership, speed, and pragmatic system design. Based in Egypt, he blends deep technical clarity with people-first leadership and a track record of shipping products used by millions. Outside work he channels discipline and challenge into rowing and off-roading—habits that mirror his approach to engineering and team resilience.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Very Good, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Very Good at Cairo University
Arabic, English
Github Skills (62)
javascript10
microsoft10
azure-sdk10
bots10
microsoft-cognitive-services10
azure-functions10
typescript10
dotnet10
swagger10
browser10
microsoft-azure10
api10
sdk10
rest10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kayousef/azure-rest-api-specs
May 2022 - May 2022
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
peytonfraser/azure-rest-api-specs
May 2022 - May 2022
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 comment in 4 days
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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