Mahmoud Ismail
Head Of Cloud at Hopsworks
Brussels, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolMahmoud Ismail is a cloud and distributed-systems leader with 14 years of experience, currently heading Cloud at Hopsworks in Brussels where he drives the managed Hopsworks.ai platform, serverless offerings, and the Hopsworks.ai Terraform Provider. A co-founder of Hopsworks, he blends deep research pedigree—a PhD from KTH on scalable distributed metadata for HDFS—with hands-on engineering, having implemented schemaless metadata APIs and Opensearch integrations for multi-tenant production systems. He has repeatedly moved storage and metadata projects to cloud-native architectures, leading upgrades, backups, and EKS integrations while keeping strong consistency and security in mind. An active back-end developer on the prominent Hopsworks open-source project, his contributions include Elasticsearch/Opensearch multi-node support and JWT signing/recovery for core APIs. Based in Brussels, Mahmoud pairs academic rigor with startup execution, often tackling the behind-the-scenes scalability problems that teams rarely notice until they fail.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Communication and Information Technology, Master of Science Communication and Information Technology at Nile UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science Systems and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Systems and Biomedical Engineering at Cairo University
Arabic, English, Swedish
Github Skills (15)
javas10
api-rest10
rest-api10
metadata-management10
api10
apidoc10
api-design10
java10
restful-api10
amazon-elasticsearch9
elasticsearch-api9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch9
feature-store8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
logicalclocks/hopsworks
Aug 2019 - Apr 2022
Hopsworks - Data-Intensive AI platform with a Feature Store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 23 commits, 37 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mahmoud primarily focused on implementing and maintaining the schemaless metadata API, using Java. Their work involved modifications to existing Java files, specifically `MetadataController.java`, `MetadataService.java`, and `MetaLog.java`, indicating a focus on the core Hopsworks API functionality. The changes included adding, removing, and getting schemaless metadata, along with corresponding API endpoints. They added support for multiple Elasticsearch nodes, feature groups, and incorporated code for JWT signing and recovery.
gcppythonserverlessai-platformhopsworks
maismail/karamel-chef
Mar 2019 - Jan 2022
This chef cookbook installs Karamel. Used by Vagrant to provision multi-node clusters.
Contributions:20 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 10 months
cookbookvagrantmulti-noderecipeclusters
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