Summary
Karim Ghazouly is a software engineering manager with 9 years of hands-on experience building backend systems, pipelines, and production services across YC startups and early-stage ventures. He has deep practical experience in Python, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL and CI/CD, and has repeatedly owned end-to-end projects from API design to deployment and operations. As a founding engineer he hired and mentored engineering teams, established processes, and built MVPs and internal automation that reduced operational toil. His background includes work on large-scale data pipelines at Facebook and building device-facing APIs and message pipelines in health and commerce startups, showing comfort with both data-heavy infrastructure and product-facing systems. Based in Cairo, he brings a blend of pragmatic engineering, people leadership, and a taste for playful experimentation—he jokes that he “presses random keys for a living,” reflecting a hands-on, iterative approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Ain Shams University
Secondry School, Secondry School at Ahmed Zewail Language School
English, Arabic