Mahmoud Said
Principal Software Architect at Careem
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolMahmoud Said is a Principal Software Architect with 17 years of experience building maintainable, scalable web applications and driving platform reliability at Careem in Dubai. He blends deep Ruby on Rails expertise with pragmatic DevOps, team leadership and architecture skills, having re-architected payment and incentives systems into reactive, event-driven platforms. Known internally as a “leakage plumber,” he excels at closing operational gaps across fraud, settlement and integrations while keeping systems light and maintainable. Mahmoud is an active open-source contributor who has improved legacy service integrations (notably Redmine support) and built production-ready Rails projects with attention to RTL and localization. Comfortable in the Linux shell and fluent across stacks from J2EE to PHP and shell scripting, he pairs hands-on coding with coaching and measurable quality indicators. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex business needs into simple, auditable technical solutions.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Alexandria UniversityGeneral Secondary School, General Secondary School at Gamal Abdel-Nasser
Arabic, English
Github Skills (16)
i18n-js10
apim10
configuration-management10
redmine10
i18next10
rails10
api10
back-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
i18n-node10
ruby10
localization9
yaml8
testing8
githubaction-workflow7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ivaldi/brimir
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Email helpdesk built using Ruby on Rails and Zurb Foundation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Mahmoud primarily focused on enhancing the application's functionality and maintainability. Their contributions included implementing support for Right-to-Left (RTL) languages, streamlining code by eliminating trailing empty lines, and adding a generic settings file with a wrapper. Further efforts involved utilizing the settings wrapper to configure locale handling based on either default settings or user agent preferences. The user also made multiple changes to improve code clarity, including shortening lines and removing training spaces.
ruby-on-railsrailsemailrubyfoundation
github/github-services
Aug 2012 - Jul 2013
Legacy GitHub Services Integration
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Mahmoud primarily contributed to the `github-services` repository by implementing and modifying service integrations. Their main focus was enhancing the Redmine integration, demonstrated by adding functionality to update Redmine issues with commit information. They also worked on integrating with the Rational Team Concert and Backlog services. Additionally, the user refactored the Redmine service by directly integrating the HTTP requests.
github-servicesintegration-services
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