Mahmoud Ahmed
Software Engineer (PHP Kotlin Go) at Schwarz Digits
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMahmoud Ahmed is a pragmatic software engineer with 8 years of experience building high-performance, scalable web systems using PHP, Kotlin, Go and modern front-end stacks. He has a strong track record refactoring legacy code, optimizing APIs and databases, and designing microservices and real-time systems that handle millions of requests per day. Comfortable across the full stack and cloud-native infra, he brings hands-on expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, observability and messaging platforms like RabbitMQ and Kafka. A security-minded developer, Mahmoud applies secure coding and system hardening practices alongside automated testing and CI/CD to reduce risk in high-traffic environments. Based in Berlin, he combines algorithmic rigor from regular LeetCode practice with a curiosity for AI/ML and AI-driven security, often experimenting with neural models to solve practical problems. Colleagues value him for turning complex requirements into maintainable architectures that measurably improve performance and reliability.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems at The Higher Institute of Advanced Studies
English, Arabic, German
Github Skills (26)
socket-io10
scaffold10
javascript10
windows10
linux10
websocket10
rocket10
lumen10
js10
macos10
nodejs10
api-generator10
realtime9
laravel-package9
laravel9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Mahmoud-Italy/data_processor_architecture
Mar 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
Mahmoud-Italy/Blog-with-installation-wizard
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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