Karem Shawky
Senior Backend Developer at Jobzella
El Nada Compound, Giza, Egypt
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Top SchoolKarem Shawky is a Senior Backend Developer with around nine years of PHP-focused experience delivering scalable web platforms for media, publishing, and content-driven startups across the MENA region. He has led backend architecture, database design, and REST API development for high-traffic products like news portals and magazines (Akhbaar24, Sport24, SRMG) and consumer platforms (Influancy, Magazine, Forums). Comfortable across PHP 7/8 and Laravel (5.8–8), he pairs traditional LAMP expertise with modern DevOps practices including Docker, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, and DigitalOcean deployments. Karem has a proven track record of optimizing performance with Redis, MySQL tuning, and production monitoring, and he frequently integrates mobile and web clients via well-designed APIs. Based in Giza, Egypt, he brings a pragmatic balance of legacy system migration experience and forward-looking stacks (Vue/Nuxt on the front end) that helps teams modernize incrementally. An analytical thinker with a Business/Commerce background, he often bridges product requirements and technical tradeoffs to deliver maintainable, testable backend solutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Business/Commerce, General, Bachelor's degree, Business/Commerce, General at Benha University
Arabic, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
laravel-package6
laravel-valet6
htaccess6
pivot6
visual-studio-code6
php6
laravel6
apache6
eloquent6
axios6
ubuntu5
valet4
laravel-framework4
linux3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
karemshawky/parent
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 months
karemshawky/beyoot
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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