Maher Shaker
System Architect & Backend Engineer at Gigapay
Strängnäs, Sweden
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Top SchoolMaher Shaker is a System Architect and Backend Engineer with 8 years of experience, currently leading architecture and backend work at Gigapay from Strängnäs, Sweden. He progressed rapidly from a junior Django developer to spearheading cross-border payout integrations and shaping CI/CD, deployment and Linux infrastructure practices. Maher blends hands-on backend development with strategic decision-making, driving technical standards, project ownership and team knowledge sharing. His work on multi-provider payment integrations enabled international expansion and reflects a practical focus on scalable, maintainable systems. With a Master's in Computer Engineering from Karlstad University and early experience in electronics manufacturing, he brings both hardware-aware pragmatism and software architecture rigor to solve operational challenges. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical direction, efficient workflows and thoughtful trade-offs between speed and long-term maintainability.
8 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Engineering Technologies/Technicians, Master's degree, Computer Engineering Technologies/Technicians at Karlstads universitet
Swedish, Arabic, English
Github Skills (23)
programming-language9
python9
api6
django-cache6
gender-classification6
filter5
chrome-extension5
decorator5
visual-studio-code-extension4
browser-extension4
django4
face-recognition4
nudity-detection4
face-detection3
zeal3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gigapay/Documentation
Dec 2021 - Nov 2024
Gigapay API Reference
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 11 months
apiapi-reference
gigapay/python-stdnum
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:15 releases, 26 reviews, 32 PRs in 1 year 8 months
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